A sad masterpost of sorts that I am sorry I even have to make.
First of all, I want to start by stating that I created this blog to serve one purpose: to find truth. Upon discovering Louis and Harryâs rumored relationship, I was torn by the idea that something that seemed so real to me was officially considered a wild conspiracy theory. So, I started this blog to look at all the details. I did not âshipâ Louis and Harry, but I believed they were more than friends. It seemed clear to me. I tried to debunk their relationship and I could not. Now, this lead me to babygate. I was so upset by the scale of which Louis and Harryâs relationship appeared to have been covered up that I almost believed it the first time I saw âproofâ for BG, but I knew, like most things, there are two sides of a story and you have to view both in order to see the whole picture clearly.  So, I began going through BG proof and trying to see if I could disprove it. To me, this was very easy to disprove, unlike something happening between Louis and Harry. The ease at which I was able to disprove things lead me to the conclusion that Louis did, in fact, have a child. This brought me furthermore to the conclusion that Louis and Harry were likely not together when this child was conceived.Â
I didnât receive the answers I âwanted.â Of course a fairytale perfect love story for Louis and Harry would be what I would want, but what I always wanted more was the truth. On my blog, there is no bending the truth to fit a desired narrative. In fact, I have often posted things and discovered they were debunked later, then updated the posts to reflect their debunked status.  A lot of what I have written have just been theories because there is not enough information to come up with a definitive answer. Iâve tried to make that clear when that is the case. People take theories, even other peoplesâ theories, and hold them as facts. This is both problematic and closed-minded. Both âantisâ that believe Harry and Louis were never together, and Larries that believe Harry and Louis are still together, ignore massive amounts of evidence that point in different directions because they donât want it to be true. When a story becomes something you want to believe more than you want the truth, you get fake proof and bogus theories. Unfortunately, it appears a vast majority of the popular 1D blogs fall in this category.
I think a lot of people in this fandom donât understand how to discern fact from fiction, and I think that might largely be due to age. This is often a skill acquired with age and experience. If you look only at the proof that Eleanor was Louisâ girlfriend, or Taylor was Harryâs girlfriend, you will believe it.  It looks like the truth.  However, if you spend real quality time on a good Larry proof source, you might begin to see things a bit differently.  Iâve spent hours and hours on Elounor and Haylor proof blogs and still found that the evidence and timeline for Louis and Harryâs relationship was stronger. Similarly, those that already believe Larry is real tend to take any babygate âproofâ as fact, or, at the very least, as a solid argument. In order to really see if something is, in fact, credible, you have to look at the other side of the story, no matter how painful that may be. In the case of âbabygate,â the other side of the story paints a very different picture.
âYou only get half of the storyâŚâ - Louis Tomlinson
I received the following ask, so I am going to address the points made as well as some others.
1. Firstly, the opinion that Freddie is Brettâs twin is a subjective opinion. I strongly disagree, as do many others. Aside from having blonde hair and blue eyes, I see nothing in common. His lips and nose look exactly like Louisâ to me. Â This doesnât debunk anything, it just proves that visually, there is no proof to be gained. You cannot prove or disprove parentage based on looks unless maybe race is involved, but since Freddie is white with blue eyes and so are both Brett and Louis, that leads us nowhere. To me, Louisâ nose and mouth as a child look near identical to Freddieâs.
2. Once again, the thing about Calvin cannot be used at proof for several reasons. First of all, it came from an update account and in terms of proof it is as weak as Anastasia Steeleâs tea (I am sorry for this reference). It is hearsay. There is no proof that he said that. Second of all, it is ludicrous to assume you can know the date Briana would have gotten pregnant. Assuming she carried to full term, which it appears she did, there was a good window of 2-3 weeks that she could have gotten pregnant.Â
Full-term is considered 39 weeks through 40 weeks and 6 days. That is nearly 3 weeks. Â That means there is a three week period in which a woman can get pregnant and still have a full-term pregnancy. Â However, babies are often born a week early and are perfectly healthy, which would extend the window that B could have gotten pregnant to four whole weeks!
3. Her bump did not disappear. This is one of the proofs that bothers me the most. I donât know who first suggested this. She is sitting down, far away in the picture and wearing all black, which makes it hard to see.  Even so, I can clearly see the bump, so I assume everyone that âdoesnât see itâ doesnât want to see it. You can tell from the other picture taken in that dress that she was carrying rather low, so the bump wouldnât have been big right under her bust line.
People love to ridicule Brianaâs pregnant body and say her belly looked weird or was not big enough. After having worked with hundreds of pregnant women, I can tell you this: no pregnancy is the same. The way women look during pregnancy and carry their child depends on genetics, age, whether it is a first pregnancy or not, their natural body size, etc. Many young, fit women have smaller bumps for their first pregnancy. To compare Brianaâs 8 month belly to another womanâs is fundamentally wrong and proves nothing.
Additionally, look at all the people in that picture. All those people knew her and saw her. I am to believe they were ALL in on babygate? That seems like a lot of moving players and way too many NDAs.
4. While I donât understand why people that lie do what they do, it kind of doesnât matter that Ashley stole some pic of a random girl in the hospital (or other times).  She was probably craving attention and not being given any pictures.  She was really riding on the coat tails of Brianaâs momentary fame. The thing is, we do have real pictures of Briana in the hospital bed, wearing the hospital gown, with a newborn Freddie, as well as other pictures taken in the hospital.  So, that real picture cancels out whatever Ashley did earlier on in the day, despite how shady it was.
The fake picture Ashley posted (belonging to another woman):
Real pictures taken in the hospital:
Brianaâs parents celebrating. Clearly, Tammi was not the one that gave birth.
Louis, holding Freddie in the hospital. Didnât people make a big deal about him going to a sunglass store that day? Â Weird. Â Here he is playing with the baby by putting the sunglasses on him.
5. Guess what? Briana did NOT have a nose job while pregnant. Below are two pictures of her. Â The one on the left was taken before she got pregnant/when she and Louis were hanging out. The one on the right was taken the day she left the hospital with Freddie. Clearly, her nose is exactly the same.
The full shots so you know I am not lying about the times they were taken:
The pictures used to âproveâ she had a nose job while pregnant are terrible pictures of her that do not properly show how she looks.
6. How is the lack of a video of Freddie being called by his name proof? I take videos of people all the time and rarely do I call them by their name. If there is no video of him being called Freddie, then we cannot assume he does not respond to it. There is no logic there. Â This is a very weak point.
7. The newborn Freddie looks very much like the Freddie we see today. The reason for his temporary medical helmet was never disclosed, but it doesnât matter. Â I also donât know what pierced ear picture you are talking about, but below is a picture of Lottie with Freddie. Â You cannot fake this kind of love. Â You cannot force an entire family to fake a relationship with a child.
You could not have forced Jay to fly to America to play a part in such a sick and twisted lie.
More pictures of Freddie that show it has always been the same baby.
8. People state that Briana carried the carrier out of the hospital and no woman that just gave birth would have done that. Â The picture that they always use is to prove this, is this one:
This picture was actually NOT taken when she left the hospital. This picture was taken when she brought Freddie out of the house for the first time. Louis carried Freddie out of the hospital right after he was born:
People also like to make a big deal about the fact that Briana walked out of the hospital instead of being pushed in a wheelchair. I worked on the maternity floor of a hospital for over a year and young mothers that gave birth vaginally without complication were often completely fine to walk out of the hospital. It really depends on the mother.
9. People act like Briana was planned for awhile to be âthe motherâ of his âfake child.â What is interesting is April 25, 2015 this article was printed. The article was titled:
The girl in question was the girl in this picture with him, not Briana.
Several other girls were also pictured in the article and a group of girls were mentioned, but none were Briana.  The thing is, Briana was there.  Why would she be left out of an article if they were âseedingâ this relationship, trying to lead up to BG?
Briana can also be seen in this video. She is the first one to enter the building before Louis says, âdas your fookin job you fookin loosah!â to the pap. (The title that mentions her by name was changed after she had been identified as the mother of his child.)
10. Even more interesting is the fact that the following pictures are not widely circulated.  The first one is actually pretty hard to track down outside of some Briana timeline tumblr posts. It was taken on May 5th, which would have been around the time B got pregnant. Wouldnât they have been widely circulated if they were only taken to âproveâ a fake relationship.
When has Louis ever had a moment like this with Eleanor? Did he suddenly, overnight, become not only a good actor, but also suddenly agree to go along with stunts to this extreme? He had more chemistry with Briana than he ever displayed with El.
10. People say Briana was never pregnant. Iâd like to end this right now. She clearly had a post-partum body. Â She gained weight in her face and thighs during the pregnancy, and that was visible. With a strapped on pillow tummy, that would not have been the case. Â Additionally, her saggy belly was visible shortly after giving birth. Â She is young and naturally slim, so she âsnapped backâ quickly, but there are still pictures that show she was obviously pregnant.
This is Briana leaving the hospital after giving birth. She has a belly, larger breasts, and her face has obviously gained weight.
Additional pictures of her shortly after giving birth. Weight on her upper thighs and a post-partum belly.
11. People have stated that Louis never got a paternity test because it is not public record. They state there was never a custody hearing/agreement. I went so far as to speak to a lawyer about this who said that nearly every single celebrity will have these records sealed, so there is absolutely no way to prove he did not get them.
Here is the thing, whether he got a paternity test or not, his name is on that birth certificate. So, guess what that means? Legally, he is claiming him as his son. Since Briana was, in fact, pregnant and she and Louis looked very cozy together around the time she got pregnant, it would not be out of the realm of possibility that it is biologically his as well.
There are a lot of other things people use as proof, but this post would literally never end if I tried to debunk them all. These are the major points and a lot of the tiny things are so ridiculous that I donât see the point in debunking them. A lot of things have debunked themselves over time. People thought the pictures of Louis and his kid were fake/photoshopped originally, but clearly there was a real baby, so why would they have photoshopped anything? People thought the baby was a doll initially, but that was also proven false with time. Â There are a lot of strange things that occurred PR-wise with this kid. Â The early announcement of the pregnancy and all of Louisâ pap-walks with the kid were so bizarre and I donât have an explanation for them, but they cannot be used as proof that the kid is not his.
I leave some final questions for those that believe in BG to mull over:
If they wanted to make the baby a big deal/hide H&Lâs relationship, why did they ban the discussion of the kid from MITAM promo and allow H&L to sit together? Donât these things completely contradict each other? Management also âallowedâ (aka most likely orchestrated) RBB for promo, so why would they simultaneously use H&Lâs relationship for promo/larrybaiting while trying to cover up their relationship with an elaborately orchestrated fake baby stunt that has lasted years into hiatus?Â
When, in the history of ever, has a âfake babyâ been a thing that was pulled off and carried out for years to forcibly closet someone? Bearding is a thing. Not fake babies.
The kid was born after the hiatus, but before Louis went solo. What purpose does this serve? Timing wise, how does this make any sense? Who was pulling the strings for this to happen to essentially out-of-work Louis?
If Louis is the underdog whose album is being held back, thus the one who is making zero profit for Sony at the moment, why would they invest millions into an elaborate and very risky fake baby scandal for nearly four years? Theyâd be hemorrhaging money over an artist they essentially donât support and receive very little profit from.
Parting thoughts: I know we, as a fandom, are all obsessed with Louis and follow every breath he takes, so we care about the babyâs existence and what that means. You know who doesnât care about the baby or even know he has a kid? The general public. Louis is NOT that famous outside of the 1D bubble. Most people couldnât pick Louis out of a line-up of 2. Most people have never heard of him. So, essentially, this elaborate, risky, incredibly involved âstuntâ would be just to try to get to Larries?  Thatâs essentially what Larries believe. This is for their benefit, so they might change their mind about Louisâ sexual orientation or his relationship with Harry. Seems unrealistic.
Additionally, I beg of anyone that is reading this to have some sympathy. These are real people you are calling names, making bizarre theories about, and harassing. Even if youâve read through this whole post and still think the kid is Brettâs, and Briana was never pregnant, you should know that you cannot be 100% sure. Â If there is even 1% chance that the kid is Louisâ and Brianaâs, they need to be respected. Â Briana may be young and still party while her parents watch the kid a lot, but she is a young single mom that loves her son dearly, and all the hate she gets from the 1D fandom is surely eating her up inside.
A heartbreaking message from Briana:
