The woman best known for popularizing gender reveal parties has a message for the world: Please stop.
This isn’t the first time a gender reveal party has led to catastrophe, and yet the celebrations have only grown in popularity. Here’s how we got here. How these parties became deadly Karvunidis had her own gender reveal party back in 2008, before they became a Thing. She and her husband went what is now the more traditional route, though: cutting a cake that revealed an inside of pink frosting. A girl. “I just thought it would be really fun for everybody in the whole family to find out,” Karvunidis told NPR last year. She wrote about it on her blog, High Gloss And Sauce, and at the time it garnered some local attention. But since 2008, these celebrations of life have turned into risky endeavors. Though many still opt for the classic blue or pink cake reveal, others have taken more extreme routes. The current wildfire in California is massive, but it’s just small potatoes compared to a 2017 reveal in Arizona that led to a wildfire spanning 47,000 acres. It all happened when members at the party shot a makeshift target scrawled with the words “Boy” and “Girl.
