Chip and Joanna Gaines Announce the Sex of Baby #5

Megan Johnson
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Megan Johnson is a reporter in Boston. She got her start at the Boston Herald, where commenters would leave sweet messages like “Megan Johnson is just awful.” Now, she's a contributor to publications like People Magazine, Trulia and Architectural Digest.
updated May 3, 2019
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Fixer-Upper superfans have been anxiously awaiting the news of Chip and Joanna Gaines’s fifth child’s sex, going as far to speculate that it’s a little girl named Evie. But the truth has finally come out, and it looks like it’s due to quick comment Chip made while at a golf tournament.

“Alright, alright.. if we’re going to announce the gender of our #5th child. It might as well come from my new friend #Gage! Take it away my man. @tebowfoundation,” Chip said in a Tweet with a video attached.

In the video, a short(er)-haired Chip, sporting golfing gloves, is chatting to a little boy. “Listen to this, I can’t think of a D name,” he says. “Can you help me think of a D name?”

Alright, alright.. if we’re going to announce the gender of our #5th child. It might as well come from my new friend #Gage! Take it away my man. @tebowfoundation https://t.co/VF50Ax2GTq

— Chip Gaines (@chipgaines) March 7, 2018

#Gage was so thrilled to get to meet you! Thank you for making his day! pic.twitter.com/qUx04kEKz3

— Mike Spurlock (@jms81367) March 7, 2018

Now, anyone familiar with the Dictionary of Gaines knows that all of Chip and Joanna’s daughters have names that start with E (Ella, 11, and Emmie Kay, 7) and all of the boys have names that start with D (Drake, 12, and Duke, 9). Which means… baby number five must be a little boy!

“So far all I could come up with is ‘Dragon’,” Chip joked.

Well, we know Joanna’s favorite “Distressed Furniture” starts with a D, so there’s an idea.

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