Pregnant model Chrissy Teigen had no idea choosing the sex of her baby through in vitro fertilisation would be such a controversial topic.
The Sports Illustrated model recently revealed she and her husband, singer John Legend, chose to have a daughter when they were offered the chance to pick the sex of their first child.
"Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo," she told People magazine.
"I picked her and was like, 'Let's put in the girl."'
Teigen's candid comments caused a stir online, with many attacking the mum-to-be for using the controversial process of preimplantation genetic screening to select the foetus' sex, and then discussing it so casually in the press.