Exclusive: Married At First Sight star and proud mum of two boys Jules Robinson is clapping back at those criticising her for using a gender swayer as she tries for baby number three.
Robinson, 44, has received her fair share of backlash after being open online about wanting a daughter, the reality star tells nine.com.au she isn’t doing anything wrong.
Jules Robinson and Cameron Merchant have wanted a daughter together since they met on Married at First Sight. Instagram/@julesrobinson82
“I’m just saying the quiet part out loud, women have these conversations with their friends all the time,” Robinson said.
The businesswoman, who met husband Cameron Merchant on Season 6 of MAFS in 2018, recently revealed she’s been working with a professional gender sway expert to conceive a third and final baby, a girl.
Robinson and Merchant are already smitten with their young family as parents of Ollie, five, and Carter, two.
The reveal was not taken well by some online, who insisted that parents shouldn’t try and to choose the gender of their child.
“If the information’s there, why not be open to receiving it – which is what I’ve been doing,” she explained.
“If I hold that child and it’s a little boy. Oh my god, I’m going to love him more than anything; of course, I will. I’m just saying that if there’s any power that Cam and I have, naturally, to sway the baby to be a girl, then we’re going to try that.”
She added that she’s a “huge believer” in the power of intention and mindset. One of the ways she has tried to manifest a daughter is by creating an AI-generated image of her family, including a little girl.
“I think it’s quite a positive thing to do to look at if you are visual and when you manifest,” she said.
Despite Robinson being dedicated to the techniques the gender sway expert recommends, she confessed the process has been “intense.”
Robinson recently revealed she’s been working with a professional gender sway expert to try and have a girl. Instagram/@julesrobinson82
“I meet with her every single month and then on 10th day of my cycle, I go and have a blood test done, which reads my hormone levels,” she explained.
“Then you try to conceive before ovulation, because female sperm live a lot longer than male. So the idea is that the female sperm will still be there and you conceive.”
Despite the increased popularity of natural gender swaying experts, the broader medical and scientific community maintains that these methods are not clinically proven to alter the sex of a baby.
Robinson continued: “It has been a process… to be honest, I’m six months in now, and I’m like ’I don’t care, just give me another baby.”
She explained that she came accidentally came across the gender sway expert.
One of the way’s she has tried to manifest a daughter is by creating an AI-generated image of her family, including a little girl. Instagram/@julesrobinson82
“I was at my local coffee shop and I was just talking to a stranger, she was there by herself with no phone, no nothing, and she was just having a moment away from her children,” she said.
“She said she had two girls, I was like, ‘I’ve got two boys I’d love to have a girl,’ and she went, ‘oh, actually, I’ve heard about this lady’ and she showed it to me. That’s how it got introduced to me,” she said.
“Cam and I have had our little girl name ever since we were in the Married At First Sight experiment together, I know Cam would absolutely love a daughter.”
Amid the chaos of trying for another baby, Robinson is steering the ship at her shapewear company FIGUR.
The brand just launched its latest campaign, Reshaping the Expectation, which was inspired by Barbie.
The campaign featured nine real Australian women wearing FIGUR shapewear in “barbie” doll boxes at the Macquarie Centre, showing off different types of female bodies, including one woman who lost her arm to meningococcal.
“I really feel like it’s my most important work that I’ve done to date, especially with FIGUR, and the inspiration that came from it was who decides what beauty looks like,” she said.
“For decades, we’ve been presented with this very narrow definition of beauty and showing perfection, which isn’t reality.”
The brand just launched its latest campaign, Reshaping the Expectation, which was inspired by Barbie. Supplied
“Even Barbie has evolved so much over the years that even now she shows different women who come under different categories, from autism to loads of different things – it’s a bit of a nod to her in the sense that the beauty industry is evolving.”
Despite the shapewear market already being saturated with brands like SKIMS and Spanx, Robinson said she never worries about her competitors.
“It really wasn’t even a question of [competing],” she explained.
“Obviously, she’s absolutely incredible and I admire everything that she’s done with her brand, with her skims, but FIGUR is totally different.”
“I don’t think there are any other shapewear brands out there that really positioned themselves in the way that FIGUR does.”
She says while other brands strive for perfection, FIGUR is about loving the body “underneath the fabric.”