Influencer is slammed after using $6K Dior handbag for gender reveal

An influencer who used a $6,000 Dior handbag to do her gender reveal has been fiercely slammed online.

Rachel and Austin Santana, from Miami, Florida, received the gender results of their first baby while they were vacationing in Paris, France, earlier this month.

They decided to unveil the news at a luxury store in the European city using an expensive purse.

The couple picked out a pink and blue Cannage Lambskin bag from the Dior shop in Paris, which retails for roughly $6,000, and gave a sales associate the results and their credit card.

The worker rung them up for one of the twos bags – the one that matched the color of their unborn baby’s gender – and wrapped it up so they couldn’t see.

Rachel and Austin were then offered a private room in the store so they could open the box and discover the sex of their child.

They documented the entire thing and shared it to Rachel’s Instagram, where she has racked up more than 454,000 followers for showcasing her lavish lifestyle.

But the pricey endeavor was met with criticism from fans, with one person even branding it as the most ‘out of touch gender reveal’ they had ever seen. 

‘We’re in Paris and we came to the Dior store and we decided to do our gender reveal by picking out a purse,’ Rachel said in the video.

‘We gave the associate our results and we told her pink Lady Dior if it’s a girl and blue Lady Dior if it’s a boy. 

‘I’m so nervous. This is the bag. We’re gonna find out if we’re having a boy and girl.’

Rachel explained that she had ‘team boy vibes’ while her husband was ‘team girl.’

‘We’re gonna be happy with whatever,’ she added. 

She then opened the box up and inside was a baby blue purse, meaning they are expecting a little boy. Immediately, the overjoyed couple started hugging and kissing.

‘I knew it. I had that mom intuition. It’s a boy,’ gushed the expecting mom.

‘They were SO sweet at Dior and gave us a private room to do the gender reveal so we didn’t have to wait to get back to the hotel,’ she captioned the clip.

She added in a second video, ‘Baby was craving a Dior bag. The hardest part was not opening the results ourselves but it was so worth it. 

‘Thank you to Sofia at Dior Champs-Élysées for making our gender reveal so special.’

But some social media users were unamused with her expensive gender reveal. 

‘The purse is as much as giving birth costs,’ one person pointed out.

‘This is so extra,’ someone else wrote, while another user added, ‘Most out of touch gender reveal.’

‘Super cringe,’ a fourth comment read. A fifth said, ‘I want this kinda stupid money.’

‘Baby doesn’t care about a useless expensive bag,’ someone else slammed. 

‘That baby just called me broke,’ joked a different person, while another simply wrote, ‘Oh to be rich.’ 

Others, however, praised her idea and said they wanted to steal it.

‘I typically hate the crazy gender reveals and out of all of them, this is the best one,’ one person wrote. 

‘It’s so cute and classic and it’s just the two of you. And the purse is everything.’

‘OMG such a good idea,’ gushed someone else. ‘I’m stealing this for when I’m pregnant. Maybe at Chanel though.’

‘The best gender reveal I’ve seen,’ added another user, while a fourth supporter commented, ‘Saving this for my future self.’ 

Rachel spoke about the gender reveal to People, explaining that they didn’t plan it before hand.

‘I didn’t call ahead or anything, I just showed up and hoped for the best,’ she shared. 

‘[The worker] was so kind and sweet. She’d never done a gender reveal for anyone and she was so happy to do it.

‘Funny enough, we got the very last baby blue bag in the entire store. When the associate told us it was the last blue bag, we were like, this is crazy, it was so meant to be.’

She added of the purse, ‘It’s so beautiful and every time I look at it I think of our son.’