Another boy for Richard & Sarah

Even after she and son Zion burst the balloon that confirmed her and fiancé Richard Gutierrez’s second child is a boy, Sarah Lahbati still thought that it would be a girl. “Blame” it on Alexa Uichico, wife of Richard’s brother Elvis, who was the first to learn about the baby’s gender from Dr. Teresa Henson, her and Sarah’s OB-Gyne.

Until the “gender reveal” party held last Sunday, Oct. 22, at Discovery Primea in Makati City, Alexa kept the “secret” that she had shared with Dr. Henson who very gladly “conspired” with Alexa. Even Elvis didn’t know, and neither did Ruffa.

You know how Ruffa is…she couldn’t keep a secret. Remember how, after Sarah gave birth to first child Zion in April 2013 in Switzerland (where Sarah’s parents are based), Ruffa kept hinting at it even as the whole Gutierrez family kept mum until, as per the contract stated, the big reveal would be done on the family show It Takes Gutz To Be A Gutierrez (ITGTBAG) on E! Channel.

“Ate Ruffa would ask me, ‘You know what the gender is?’ And I would tell her, ‘Yeah, but I’m not telling you.”

All the while, Sarah was trying to “catch” Alexa.

“Every time she asked me, I would say, ‘She’s gonna be so cute!’ Then, Sarah would ask again, ‘Girl, bakit mo sinasabi?’ I pretended na I was making a slip of the tongue. She didn’t suspect na drama ko lang ‘yon.”

Now into her fourth month of pregnancy, Sarah was  convinced that she was having a girl so at home, she would practice taking care of a daughter with Alexa and Elvis’ kids Aria and Ezra.

Incidentally, Annabelle Rama, the family matriarch, was visibly absent from the party. The guests wondered if the reason was the presence of Ruffa’s foreigner boyfriend Jordan Mouyal whom Annabelle openly disliked.

“Tita Annabelle said she was not feeling well,” said the Gutierrez family PR Jun Lalin. “So she stayed home and watched Richard’s (ABS-CBN) TV series La Luna Sangre on the network’s iWantTV.”

By the way, Sarah and Richard are engaged but they haven’t decided when they would get married.

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