It wasn't long ago when reality-TV star Kim Kardashian announced she is pregnant with her second baby and she was not discreet on how excited she is about it especially after going through countless procedures to finally conceive. Fans waited for the announcement of the baby's gender and the 34-year-old mother of soon to be two, finally announced it Monday, June 21. But apparently, she and her hubby knew exactly what was coming along, Us Weekly has the report.
"She only had boy embryos implanted," a source close to Kim told the publication. The expensive and controversial procedure which costs at least $17,000 is the act of isolating fertilized embryos of the preferred sex - in this case, Y - in a lab and implant them to a uterus.
People close to Kim and Kanye know how eager the couple is to finally complete their family, and a boy, an heir, is what would do that. "Kanye loves Nori more than anything, but to make his world complete, he wanted a little boy, an heir," tells a source close to the rapper.
Kim is also on the same boat. "Kim always wanted two kids," says a Kardashian pal. "A girl and a boy."
But the claim was soon slammed when Ina Treciokas, Kardashian's rep, gave a statement to Refinery29.com saying that there was no truth to the issue, foxnews.com reported. The author, who is known to taking issues to social media, has not made any comment on the sex-selection so far.
Should the claims be true, the couple's choice for family planning is among the controversial medical issues that have raised eyebrows among the medical field, and a matter Dr. Manny Alvarez of Fox News feels strongly about.
"I'm totally against sex selection- especially when there's no medical indication for it," says Alvarez who is the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Hackensack University Medical Center.
"In those instances, couples may need to consider a sex-selection procedure, such as when there is a prevalence such as Rett syndrome or Alport syndrome."
Did Kim and Kanye do it for the wrong reason? Sources say the couple took the the path for "family balancing"; a reason Alvarez finds insufficient considering his experience with delivering hundreds of women who have had consecutive babies of the similar sex.
"You don't balance a family because you have two of a kind," Alvarez said. "You balance a family with love, protection, education and guidance."
