10 Actual News Headlines That Prove How Dangerous, Outrageous & Out Of Control 'Gender Reveals' Have Become

If you've ever had a baby, or known someone who has, you may have partaken in a 'gender reveal'. Typically, this entails cutting into a pink or blue icing filled cake, popping a balloon with pink or blue glitter or shooting a pink or blue confetti canon in the back yard.

Simple. Very, very simple.

Nowadays, however, it is not uncommon for gender reveals to entail a LOT more detail. Fireworks, burnouts, helicopters, those light-airplanes that drag a banner... none of these are uncommonly seen on social media when influencers and even regular people, are announcing the gender of their unborn baby.

In the last few months, the state of California has suffered severe and disastrous wildfires caused by a gender reveal that went seriously wrong. Below are 10 newspaper headlines that highlight how out of control gender reveals have become and how disastrous and life-threatening some of these affects have been.