Anonymous wrote:I agree with the PPs regarding people’s reactions to biracial children, but just wanted to add that my spouse and I who are both white have completely opposite looks - picture one of us straight blond haired blue eyed and pale skinned, the other darker skin tone brown eyes and curly dark hair. And people constantly comment to us, oh your kids got mom’s curls or dad’s blue eyes or whatever. So in part I think American society admires certain features and people comment (which is creepy) of a child has those features.

Yes, it is something that is done across the board, but you have to understand that it is especially prevalent for multiracial children, and is especially stinging in that non-white features are fetishized and spoken about as if they were features of a dog (terms like "exotic", etc). Further, a "pretty" multiracial baby is usually one that looks brown, but not too brown. I am part of a multiracial family, and we have three children. One looks white, one looks black, and one looks like a little of both. Guess which one never gets any fawning attention from strangers?

I agree with the PPs regarding people’s reactions to biracial children, but just wanted to add that my spouse and I who are both white have completely opposite looks - picture one of us straight blond haired blue eyed and pale skinned, the other darker skin tone brown eyes and curly dark hair. And people constantly comment to us, oh your kids got mom’s curls or dad’s blue eyes or whatever. So in part I think American society admires certain features and people comment (which is creepy) of a child has those features.

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Anonymous wrote:The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA!

She’ll have a red afro!

I know a lot of white folks love biracial/multiracial babies, but it's interesting how y'all are fetishizing this baby before it's even here.

I’m the OP, and I’m a black woman... but, OK Ms. Know-It-All.

Plenty of white AND Black women fetishisize mixed babies, as evidenced by all the obnoxious mixed babies Re cute hashtags on Instat.

I'm the PPP, and you're right. I'm biracial (black/brown) myself and while I've heard comments more from white women, a few black women do it too, especially in the South where I grew up.

It’s definitely both. My sister and her dh have made beautiful biracial kids. Both sides of the family really fetishized their looks especially before they were born. It really rubbed me the wrong way. Relatives on both sides of the family wanted the children to be light-skinned babies with white features. (I hope he gets his hair, her lips, his nose, her coloring, his eyes) People also went crazy about the idea of having a biracial child with blue eyes. They got big, beautiful brown eyes.

PP. That's stuff I don't care for either, but we live in a society that prioritizes European features and exoticizes (is that a word?) biracial people with the "right" look. When I was a teen, one girl told me I could "pass," and said it in a way that was clear that she saw this as a positive.

My spouse and I got the same comments when I was pregnant ("They're going to have that really curly hair, I love it!" "will they get your blue eyes?" etc.). I know it's not coming from a place of malice, and people usually aren't self-reflective enough enough to really hear what they're saying, so I just rolled with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?

Definitely no surrogate. Her face looks fatter daily

There hasn't been one in weeks, and, notably, she didn't look swollen anywhere.

Huh? Her face looks very fat. Nothing else on me ever swelled but my face did look fatter. I still wore the same shoes and the same rings. You can’t fake a fat face.

Post a pic. Not seeing it.

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Anonymous wrote:The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA!

She’ll have a red afro!

I know a lot of white folks love biracial/multiracial babies, but it's interesting how y'all are fetishizing this baby before it's even here.

I’m the OP, and I’m a black woman... but, OK Ms. Know-It-All.

Plenty of white AND Black women fetishisize mixed babies, as evidenced by all the obnoxious mixed babies Re cute hashtags on Instat.

I'm the PPP, and you're right. I'm biracial (black/brown) myself and while I've heard comments more from white women, a few black women do it too, especially in the South where I grew up.

It’s definitely both. My sister and her dh have made beautiful biracial kids. Both sides of the family really fetishized their looks especially before they were born. It really rubbed me the wrong way. Relatives on both sides of the family wanted the children to be light-skinned babies with white features. (I hope he gets his hair, her lips, his nose, her coloring, his eyes) People also went crazy about the idea of having a biracial child with blue eyes. They got big, beautiful brown eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA!

She’ll have a red afro!

I know a lot of white folks love biracial/multiracial babies, but it's interesting how y'all are fetishizing this baby before it's even here.

I’m the OP, and I’m a black woman... but, OK Ms. Know-It-All.

Plenty of white AND Black women fetishisize mixed babies, as evidenced by all the obnoxious mixed babies Re cute hashtags on Instat.

I'm the PPP, and you're right. I'm biracial (black/brown) myself and while I've heard comments more from white women, a few black women do it too, especially in the South where I grew up.

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Anonymous wrote:The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA!

She’ll have a red afro!

I know a lot of white folks love biracial/multiracial babies, but it's interesting how y'all are fetishizing this baby before it's even here.

I’m the OP, and I’m a black woman... but, OK Ms. Know-It-All.

Plenty of white AND Black women fetishisize mixed babies, as evidenced by all the obnoxious mixed babies Re cute hashtags on Instat.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?

Definitely no surrogate. Her face looks fatter daily

There hasn't been one in weeks, and, notably, she didn't look swollen anywhere.

Huh? Her face looks very fat. Nothing else on me ever swelled but my face did look fatter. I still wore the same shoes and the same rings. You can’t fake a fat face.

Post a pic. Not seeing it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?

Definitely no surrogate. Her face looks fatter daily

There hasn't been one in weeks, and, notably, she didn't look swollen anywhere.

Huh? Her face looks very fat. Nothing else on me ever swelled but my face did look fatter. I still wore the same shoes and the same rings. You can’t fake a fat face.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?

Definitely no surrogate. Her face looks fatter daily

There hasn't been one in weeks, and, notably, she didn't look swollen anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?

Definitely no surrogate. Her face looks fatter daily

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Anonymous wrote:The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA!

I don’t think we’ll ‘see’ anything. Remember when Blue Ivy was born and Beyonce permed her hair?

Blue’s parents are both undisputedly black and I still wonder how she did it.

What?! Are you suggesting Beyonce chemically straightened a newborn child's hair?

No, it was probably gel - but that is not Blue Ivy’s natural hair look or texture. A baby hairstylist or Bey’s did something.

PSA: AA newborns are often born with silky straight hair that later falls out and is replaced by hair with more texture. You can find hundreds of thousand if not millions of photos online of AA newborns to show how widespread this is. It isn’t limited to mixed race babies either.

I had no idea - I'll be honest. That is fascinating.

Wow. Just wow.

So Gayle King got the scoop:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/meghan-harry-baby-cbs-news-special-to-look-back-on-whirlwind-year-for-royal-couple/

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Anonymous wrote:I’m finding her super obnoxious now wth home birth, baby shower extravaganza, etc. she is so over the top now in reaction to Kate. It’s that 1-upping Mommy syndrome.

Meghan hasn't announced any birth plans and all the lies about where she will give birth and when are just that. The minute she does so in a hospital the reporters will be spouting out more lies to sell their papers.

As for the baby shower - she's American and she has rich friends. I find William spending taxpayer money to buy Kate's parents a house much more ridiculous but you don't see any articles about that.

Like I said - the reporters know nothing. I'm curious as to where and when she delivers but it looks like she'll be home with the baby before official photos are released. I hope we don't have to wait a month to know his or hers name like they did with Louis!

For someone so media-sharing crazy, this sudden request for privacy will just fuel the surrogacy rumors.

I don't get into conspiracy crap. However, there's a lot about this pregnancy that suggests something is not right- and normally, I couldn't care less, but they are going out of their way to help fuel this, unfortunately. My question is this:
In a royal family would this be allowed? Is it possible that they are trying to put on a show because really, eventually it will be known, of course. It wouldn't be a secret forever. If they needed a surrogate, why not just have one? What's the big deal?