Married At First Sight star Jules Robinson defends decision to use gender expert to have baby girl after backlash: ‘I’m just saying the quiet part out loud’
Jules Robinson has spoken out about her decision to employ a ‘gender expert’ in her attempt to ensure her third child is a girl.
The Married At First Sight star shares sons Ollie, five, and Carter, one, with her husband Cameron Merchant, who she met on the reality TV show.
Dreaming of having a baby girl, the 44-year-old enlisted a ‘gender swaying’ practitioner in the hopes of fulfilling her wish.
Gender swaying experts, often taking the form of fertility naturopaths, use a science-based approach that includes studying biochemistry and hormones in order to build preconception plans to produce a baby of a couple’s desired sex.
Robinson admits that she had faced backlash online after openly admitting on social media that she wanted her next child to be a girl – but she insists her desire is natural for mothers.
‘I’m just saying the quiet part out loud, women have these conversations with their friends all the time,’ Robinson told Nine on Tuesday.
She insisted that she would be happy with another boy, but didn’t see the harm in stacking her odds with available therapies.
‘If I hold that child and it’s a little boy. Oh my god, I’m going to love him more than anything; of course, I will,’ she said.
‘I’m just saying that if there’s any power that Cam and I have, naturally, to sway the baby to be a girl, then we’re going to try that.’
Jules says that the process of working with a gender expert has been ‘intense’ and revealed she has been taking part in the program for six months.
‘I meet with her every single month and then on the 10th day of my cycle, I go and have a blood test done, which reads my hormone levels,’ she explained.
‘Then you try to conceive before ovulation, because female sperm live a lot longer than male. So the idea is that the female sperm will still be there and you conceive.’
Robinson and her husband Cameron, 42, met on season six of MAFS in 2019.
They married for real later that year, and went on to welcome their first son in 2020, and their second in 2024.
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It comes after Jules hit back with a scathing response to a critic who accused her of not spending any time with her sons.
Jules has become quite the successful businesswoman and influencer since leaving the Nine series, but one follower has nevertheless taken aim at her parenting.
She recently shared a screenshot of a mean-spirited DM she received on Instagram.
A follower had responded to a story she posted of herself seemingly going out to a venue, saying: ‘Do you ever do anything with your children?’
Jules posted the DM for all her followers to see, cropping out the username of the critic, and added a rolling-eye emoji over the top.
She later shared a video of herself giving a judgemental look to the camera, saying it was her response to people who criticised her life choices.
‘I’m not that sensitive, trust me. I’ve had a lot worse. It was just to reinforce my message of what I was saying,’ she said.
‘You can’t win, so you’ve just got to make your own manual and do it your own way.’