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Jasmine Allday

Nicola McLean lashes out at Danielle Lloyd over 'offensive' gender selection

Nicola McLean is less than impressed with the process of gender selection, which she branded 'offensive' and 'obsessive' in a furious post.

The 40-year-old TV star and WAG said she doesn't understand why anyone would want to choose the sex of their baby before it is born - a process that is illegal in the UK - and appeared to take a swipe at her long-time rival Danielle Lloyd, who had made no secret of the fact she would have gone down the gender selection route if her fifth baby was another boy.

Nicola was taking part in an Instagram Q&A with fans, when she was asked to give her opinion on gender selection.

"Personally, I find it offensive!," she responded.

Nicola appeared to take a swipe at Danielle over her decision to go for gender selection (Brett D. Cove / SplashNews.com)
She slammed "celebs who are obsessed with having a baby girl" in her Instagram story post (nicolamclean30/Instagram)

"Be grateful with what you are lucky enough to have!" she added.

Appearing to make a dig at Danielle, Nicola went on: "Why are these 'celebs' so obsessed with having a girl?"

Danielle has made it very clear she would have gone for gender selection if her most recent baby wasn't a girl.

"I do stand by my decision. I think for me it's about a family balance as well," she said, defending her controversial decision on ITV's Loose Women.

"I totally understand why there's two sides to the story. Some people don't agree with it, some people do.

Danielle has four boys and is expecting her fifth child, a baby girl (@missdlloyd)

"But I just think for me, I've always wanted that little baby girl.

"I love my boys and I'm so thankful that I've got them and I wouldn't change it for the world."

She explained how she wanted a daughter because she had such a special relationship with her own mum.

She added: "I've got an amazing relationship with my mum, and I want to have that with my daughter.

"Boys go off they get girlfriends, and they play football, and do what ever.

"And I think for me and my mum, I call her like ten times a day."

Nicola has never seen eye to eye with Danielle (Instagram)
Danielle and Nicola rowed back in 2017 over the model's decision to find out the gender of her unborn baby live on air (missdlloyd/Instagram)

It's not the first time Nicola and Danielle haven't seen eye to eye, as they previously got in an online spat over Danielle's decision to find out the gender of her baby live on television.

Back in 2017, Danielle had tweeted her excitement about having a baby boy, writing: "Had the most fabulous day yesterday finding out the sex of our baby thanks again to everyone @loosewomen can't wait to meet him now."

But Nicola took issue with the way Danielle had found out and slammed the model online.

"what ??? So the sex wasn't found out live on loose women?," she wrote on the microblogging platform.

Danielle quoted he tweet, replying back: "Yeah i found out live Nicola are u piping up again for 5 mins

"do not talk about mine and my partners son did u get payed 4 big bro this time."

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