Pregnant Paloma Faith hits out at gender reveals in new video as she declares: 'It's 2026 - do we even give a s**t anymore?'
Paloma Faith has hit out at gender reveals in a new video shared to her Instagram on Tuesday. In the clip, the singer, 44, who is expecting her third child - her first with boyfriend Stevie Thomas - could be seen holding a pink balloon and a blue balloon as she told her followers: 'It's my gender reveal post'. Putting on a theatrical performance for the camera, she held up both balloons and teased: 'Is it gonna be a boy? Or is it gonna be a girl? I want all of you to know.' The star then dramatically released the balloons, which quickly deflated as they floated upwards, before she delivered her verdict on gender reveals.She said: 'Oh, come on, does it really matter? Jokingly raging at the camera, she continued: 'It's 2026 - do we even give a s**t about gender anymore? You bloody transphobic homophobic p****s! It'll be whatever it wants to be when it's old enough to decide its own identity for God's sake!' Paloma Faith has hit out at gender reveals in a new video shared to her Instagram on Tuesday In the clip, the singer, 44, who is expecting her third child - her first with boyfriend Stevie Thomas - told her followers: 'It's my gender reveal post'It comes after Paloma previously refused to reveal the gender of her first child, now nine, until they were three years old. Back in 2018, Paloma explained she wouldn't disclose the gender of her then 13-month-old because she didn't believe celebrity culture was healthy for children, adding that she referred to her firstborn as 'they' in public. The Changing hitmaker, who welcomed her daughter with ex-husband Leyman Lahcine in December 2016, opened up about parenting and feminism during an appearance on Good Morning Britain.The singer said a desire for privacy motivated her decision to keep tight-lipped about her baby, saying: 'I refer to my child as ‘they’ in public. In private I refer to them as their gender. I don’t believe that celebrity culture is healthy for a child.'The star also spoke about female empowerment and her strong feminist beliefs. She said: 'Every decade is a good time to be a woman because we are absolutely amazing.''I used the album as a platform to represent and say my beliefs so I can enforce alternative ways of thinking. I’m 100% a feminist. Women, all races, shapes, sizes, creeds deserve mutual respect.'The other day I heard someone say something about someone only being good for breeding. Awful comment.' Putting on a theatrical performance for the camera, she held up both balloons and teased: 'Is it gonna be a boy? Or is it gonna be a girl? I want all of you to know' The star then dramatically released the balloons, which quickly deflated as they floated upwards, before she delivered her verdict on gender reveals She said: 'Oh, come on, does it really matter? It's 2026 - do we even give a s**t about gender anymore? You bloody transphobic homophobic p****s! It'll be whatever it wants to be,' Paloma announced she was expecting her first child with 'posh' managing director Stevie in OctoberThe Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker said becoming a parent had given her a different outlook on the world.'When you become a parent, everything makes you look outward, and makes you think, what do I want to teach,' she explained. 'My heart sings when I see little boys pushing buggies because that means they’re learning about being caring.'In October 2017, she talked to The Mirror about her decision to raise her child as gender-neutral.She explained: 'I love being a mum. I want two or three kids in all and they’ll be gender neutral.'The singer also refused to dress her child in pink and blue gender identity colours, revealing that her decision was inspired by her belief in gender equality.She stated: 'I just want them to be who they want to be.' However, during an appearance on Lorraine, Paloma said her words caused confusion among her fans, because she was in fact referring to her wish to keep the sex of her child private, rather than bring him or her up with a neutral gender.Paloma admitted at the time that she was determined to keep her child's identity under wraps and insisted it had as much to do with protecting the tot from her fame as it did with gender roles.She shared: 'I think people are getting confused between the privacy element and the gender neutrality.'They might be shy and might not want people to know that I'm their mum so I'm not going to put that on them. She added: 'So that's one thing and then the other thing is that I believe it's very important for me, for boys to learn about kindness and nurturing and dolls give boys that opportunity and then it's very important for girls to believe they can achieve anything, and be scientists, mathematicians, firefighters, whatever.'The confusion is that I used a word that means different things to different people.'
