The Mom Who Invented Gender Reveals Regrets It

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In 2008, Jenna Karvunidis was looking for ways to involve her distant mother in the life of her soon-to-be child. Fifteen years, thousands of acres of wildfires, and a few plane crashes later, she wishes she could put the genie back in its bottle. Find Jenna here. Watch the video of this episode on Youtube. Find more of A Bit Fruity. Find more of Matt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like a lot of people listening to this are going to be very surprised to know that
0:04.8	the woman who invented the gender reveal is now writing papers on like the importance of
0:11.2	the intersection of trans issues and reproductive health issues.
0:19.2	Hello, hello, and welcome to a bit fruity. The show where we try to learn something new about
0:24.4	each other without scorching the earth in the process. I'm Matt Bernstein and I am so,
0:29.5	so grateful that you're listening today. If you like the show, you can follow us on Spotify
0:34.6	or Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to this. If you prefer a visual, we are also on
0:40.4	YouTube with video episodes. So you can subscribe to us over there, and if you're watching this right
0:45.2	now, welcome to my living room. This is the first episode that we are doing from my apartment.
0:51.0	We had a studio like a real studio up until now, but we lost that studio, we were kicked out,
0:56.4	it was a whole thing, but now we're here. And I actually think I prefer this. It's chic,
1:01.6	it feels cozy. I'm happy that you're home with me. And today we are in for a real treat, because
1:09.6	we are going to hear from someone who is unsuspecting. She has described herself as a normal,
1:15.8	boring suburban white mom, but she has one really weird line item on her resume. Jenna Carvenetus
1:23.9	is widely credited with inventing the Gender Reveal Party on her blog in 2008. And over the years,
1:30.4	as things caught fire, he he ha ha, things in Jenna's personal life really started to evolve in ways
1:37.1	that would color the way that she felt about this thing that she'd invented. So I am so excited
1:42.6	to speak with her. I'm so happy she's here. Jenna, welcome to the show. Hey, thank you for having
1:47.8	me. I'm very excited. Of course, when I teased this episode on my Instagram story earlier,
1:53.5	today, I was like, I am interviewing someone who regrets the thing that they invented. And people
2:00.3	were like, oh my God, are you interviewing Oppenheimer? And I was like, kind of like you're the, you're
2:07.6	the Oppenheimer of gender, you're the Gender Reveal Oppenheimer. So the Genderheimer. The Gender
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