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Pink is used to causing a stir when it comes to her edgy song lyrics and music videos. However, the 38-year-old singer is now in the midst of a different kind of controversy.
The singer said she wants to allow her six-year-old to ‘make free choices’. She doesn’t want her children to be defined by ‘traditional gender roles’.
Pink told The Sunday People:
We are a very label-less household. Last week Willow told me she is going to marry an African woman. I was like, ‘great, can you teach me how to make African food?’
And she’s like, ‘sure mama, and we are going to live with you while our house is getting ready’.
She also praised one school for supporting gender-neutral approaches:
The bathroom outside the kindergarten said: ‘Gender Neutral – anybody’, and it was a drawing of many different shapes. I took a picture of it and I wrote: ‘Progress’. I thought that was awesome. I love that kids are having this conversation.
For instance, Pink’s heartfelt speech at the VMA’s was dedicated to her daughter, Willow. During the speech, she spoke of her fight to teach Willow the lesson of self-acceptance after she made some worrying comments about being ‘ugly’.
Pink said that Willow thought of herself as the ‘ugliest girl’ she knew because she looked like ‘a boy with long hair’.
She made Willow a PowerPoint presentation with famous icons from Prince to David Bowie and Annie Lennox to Jannie Joplin.
@Pink gave the most inspiring speech about her daughter at the VMA's 🙌 pic.twitter.com/KedhS28mU7
— UNILAD (@UNILAD) August 29, 2017
I’m much more mum than I am anything else. Absolutely 100 per cent. They (Willow and Jameson) are my everything. It’s the two best decisions I ever made. Every decision I make is a choice because it affects my family.
I do bake sales and lemonade stands. I take my kid to school and try to get there on time. I’m a f**king grown up now, it’s so weird. I’m still a 12-year-old boy.
Pink, who made a musical comeback after her son’s birth gained worldwide praise for posting a cute photo of her breastfeeding with the caption: ‘Jameson can multitask too’.
https://twitter.com/MilanPty/status/937669212050460673
Love p!nk so much!
— steph🎃 (@pumpkindyke) December 4, 2017
To read this feels so good. #genderneutral
— スヱニヤ (@renardecoeur) December 4, 2017
@Pink is so amazing and inspiring! i look up to her so much 💜💜
— india✨#bIm (@damnedelano) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/Fuller8Sheryl/status/937682641628700673
Because it's the fashionable thing to do. There, saved anyone having to read the article.
— WTF a Purple Alpaca! 🗨️🦙 (@WTFPurpleAlpaca) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/FerhanDogan00/status/937515334566789120
https://twitter.com/StopTraffickers/status/937326088744767489
Pink is such a non-neutral colour. She/it really should be calling herself Green to set the right example for the kid.
— Marcus (@Marcusthejones) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/GaryP2727/status/937437735668740096
A girl with the name PINK is raising her kids 'gender neutral' stop the world I want to get off.
— Laura Ramsden (@roralamsden) December 3, 2017
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