A soon-to-be mom in Northern California is going viral after revealing an unnamed bakery accidentally ruined her gender reveal by telling her the color of the cake.
The mother, Ariel Johnson, took to TikTok on Oct. 14 to show just how upset she was after the cake decorator spoiled the surprise in a voicemail.
“Please give me a call regarding your order,” the decorator says in the voicemail. “You ordered a single lemon with blackberry, and we don’t have blackberry filling.”
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She went on to clarify that she asked the bakery to add strawberries or raspberries for a girl, and blueberries or blackberries if it were a boy.
The voicemail confirmed she was having a boy. And Johnson’s facial expressions tell you everything you need to know about what was going through her mind.
@morbidmama7 imagine paying $$, walking into the bakery with a sealed envelope from a doctor, currating a whole special, intimate moment with you & your partner… just to have some random, careless woman ruin it with a single voicemail… thaaaanks… if my eyes are red it’s cause I’ve been crying all morning ???????? #genderrevealfail #genderreveal #emotions #pregnant #altmom
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“Imagine paying (money), walking into the bakery with a sealed envelope from a doctor, (curating) a whole special, intimate moment with you & your partner… just to have some random, careless woman ruin it with a single voicemail,” Johnson wrote in the video’s caption.
“If my eyes are red it’s cause I’ve been crying all morning,” she continued.
Johnson chose not to reveal the name of the bakery or the decorator who left the voicemail.
Johnson shares full bakery gender reveal story in follow-up video
On Oct. 15, Johnson posted a four-minute follow-up video in reply to a comment asking for a “story time.”
In the video, she clarifies that she received the results from the genetic screening in a sealed envelope about two weeks prior to posting the voicemail.
Knowing the results included the gender of her baby, she decided not to look at it.
Instead, she wanted to have a “cute little surprise” with her boyfriend, so she took the envelope, still sealed, to the bakery, which assured her that the color would be kept confidential.
One day later, she received the voicemail.
@morbidmama7 Replying to @anabell_calloway here’s the full story!! *phew* ????
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“I started listening to it and I was trying to turn it off,” she said, adding that she even tried to yell over the decorator’s voice, but her words still came through.
Part of the reason she was so upset was because she didn’t want to learn the gender of her baby through a stranger. She wanted it to be a moment shared with her boyfriend.
“Instead, I just got a voicemail from a careless employee who obviously didn’t read the description,” she said.
She was also annoyed because she didn’t necessarily need it to be blackberry filling. She told the decorator it could be any blue or dark fruit, and it didn’t necessarily have to be blackberry.
After talking to the owners, they later confirmed that they did, in fact, have blackberries at the time.
Johnson got a full refund and the bakery still made the cake for her. The decorator apologized over the phone, but she said it was riddled with excuses.
Johnson clarifies why she didn’t have a ‘gender keeper’
Continuing the story in a separate video, Johnson replied to a comment asking her why she didn’t have a ‘gender keeper.’
“Not gonna lie, this is also the first time I’ve ever heard of the term ‘gender keeper,’” she said, which is essentially a person designated to be the first to know the gender and execute the reveal plan.
Johnson says she doesn’t have any family who live nearby and didn’t trust her friends with the envelope because they like to gossip. “If I tell one person, everybody knows,” she explained.
@morbidmama7 Replying to @as.if23 jump scare!!
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In an interview with Today.com, Johnson said she’s due in spring 2025.
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“This was just supposed to be another little, magical moment of the whole process of my pregnancy,” she added. “This little hiccup is going to just be one of many down the line of parenthood.”
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