Chrissy Teigen’s Daughter Has No Time For Fancy Dress Gender Boundaries And She’s Not The Only One

'Sometimes a girl wants to be both... and that, my friends, is female empowerment.'

Toddlers have a wonderful habit of surprising their parents, as Chrissy Teigen found when she planned to share a moment of female empowerment with her daughter Luna.

The two-year-old was dressed in a tutu and when Teigen gave her a new astronaut fancy dress outfit, she responded in a way that showed toddlers will not be bound by gender stereotypes.

“I thought I was going to have this incredible female empowerment moment where Luna ripped her tutu off and replaced it with her space suit but sometimes a girl wants to be both,” Teigen tweeted.

I thought I was going to have this incredible female empowerment moment where Luna ripped her tutu off and replaced it with her space suit but sometimes a girl wants to be both pic.twitter.com/o3RT46fBeX

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 20, 2018

...and that, my friends, is female empowerment

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 20, 2018

Teigen’s tweet had more than 93,000 likes and nearly 7,000 comments from people who loved the ballerina-astronaut combo. Many enjoyed the sentiment of “a girl can be both”.

@chrissyteigen I was a princess for years while I was a little girl and still aspired to be an astronaut. They are not mutually exclusive 😊👏❤️ 👑🚀- it’s a great combo! Love this video - go Luna! 🌙

— Abigail Harrison (@AstronautAbby) June 20, 2018

A GIRL CAN BE BOTH, SHULD BE BOTH, WILL BE BOTH. That's the brilliant thing. I'm an archaeolgist and I regularly walk out of a trench and straight into a pair of heels. 🙌 Go Luna!

— Lisa Westcott Wilkins (@LisaWWilkins) June 20, 2018

In response, parents shared pictures and anecdotes of their own daughters who had defied stereotypical gender boundaries in their inventive dress up.

Here's mine, age 4. pic.twitter.com/YXeoYuqYwN

— Robert Brooke (@RobertB2379) June 20, 2018

Meet Princess Batgirl! My daughter the beautiful superhero ;) pic.twitter.com/7htms1oJ6J

— Becky (@Becky_Foster_) June 20, 2018

Luna is me pic.twitter.com/M5mDCjgTTG

— Jacqueline (@jackiewarnett) June 21, 2018

😁https://t.co/Rzu3uQ1JCr

— Vaughan McAlley (@VaughanMcAlley) June 20, 2018

Nothing wrong with that! My girl used to carry a sequin purse filled with a nerf gun and ammo. She would have kicked any boys' arse! She's both fancy and tough!

— Laura Alvarez (@LJAlvz) June 20, 2018

And others sent photos of their daughters enjoying their spacesuits.

My daughter also loves her spacesuit! pic.twitter.com/t9zRNacdXc

— Christine (@lil_cm11) June 20, 2018

Great suit! pic.twitter.com/351gwqSChV

— Dana Ecklund (@DanaEcklund) June 20, 2018

They rock.

Teigen and her husband John Legend also have a baby son called Miles who was born on 21 May.

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