"I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird"
About this Quote
The phrase “really weird” does a lot of work. It’s not dramatic, it’s not politically freighted, it’s the language of someone catching herself reacting in real time. That understatement makes the subtext legible: she’s admitting to an unconscious bias without turning it into a confession booth. In celebrity culture, pregnancy talk is usually staged as glow, gratitude, and tidy sentiment. Hart instead offers an unpolished glitch in the script, the disorienting sense that even “happy news” can feel briefly wrong when it violates the story you’d been telling yourself.
Context matters here: an actress known for teen-friendly roles aging into public adulthood. This is the kind of domestic detail that rebrands a former sitcom icon as relatable, not aspirational. It’s also a quiet reminder that gender expectations don’t only come from ideology; they’re often born at the dinner table, repeated until they feel like fate.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hart, Melissa Joan. (2026, January 17). I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-six-sisters-so-i-assumed-id-have-a-girl-57853/
Chicago Style
Hart, Melissa Joan. "I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-six-sisters-so-i-assumed-id-have-a-girl-57853/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-six-sisters-so-i-assumed-id-have-a-girl-57853/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





