David Bailey's son Sascha reveals his baby's gender and unusual name as he confirms what he'd tell his unborn child about trans ideology after he nearly transitioned to be a woman
The baby's gender reveal comes just three years after Sascha considered transitioning into a woman.
The former model, 30, who is the son of renowned photographer David Bailey and his model ex-wife Catherine, was so depressed during his marriage that he believed he was suffering from gender dysphoria - and seriously considered undergoing irreversible surgery to become female.
Now, as he prepares to welcome his first child in August with Lucy Brown - a former assistant to political activist Tommy Robinson - Sascha said that he is finally out of the 'worst years of my life'.
He told MailOnline: 'We're having a boy. We're calling him Wolfgang Robert Bailey.
'Wolfgang was going to be my name, but my Dad vetoed it. I always wanted it, so now I'm passing it on. And Robert is after Lucy's uncle, who has passed away.'
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The milestone is made even sweeter, he said, by the fact that his divorce from Japanese lawyer Mimi Nishikawa, 49, is now finally coming to an end after three tumultuous years.
'It has been a nightmare but the divorce is in the final stage and is due to go through next month,' he said. 'So this will be a whole new beginning. I've never felt happier.'
Sascha and Lucy, 34, are currently staying with his parents in London but have found a new flat which they will move into in the next few weeks.
However, marriage isn't on the cards just yet. 'I'm still traumatised from the last one,' Sascha admitted. 'But with Lucy, I see it in our future. I want to do it properly this time.'
It's a remarkable turnaround for the model turned art curator, who in 2021 spiralled into a mental health crisis so severe that he considered ending his life.
'I felt totally lost. I didn't want to be alive,' he told the Mail at the time. 'I convinced myself I must be transgender - that I was living the wrong life in the wrong body. It felt like the only way out.'
Sascha began exploring gender transition online and quickly found an echo chamber in chatrooms and forums.
'There was so much encouragement to 'just do it',' he recalled. 'I saw a private doctor who spent ten minutes with me, said I was trans and gave me a prescription for female hormones. That was it.'
He said he was days away from booking gender reassignment surgery when something shifted.
'I just stopped and thought: hang on, this isn't right. This is trauma. I don't need a new body - I need to understand why I'm in pain,' he said.
He credits his famously brusque father - and Lucy, who he met shortly after leaving his marriage - with helping him find his way back to himself.
He said: 'Lucy saved my life. She helped me feel grounded again. Like I wasn't broken.'
Now, as he prepares to become a father, Sascha is braced for his unborn child perhaps one day broaching the subject of gender dysphoria themselves.
'I'd be very against it, obviously,' Sascha mused. 'You can't get a tattoo. You can't change your gender. It's really as simple as that.
'If you give someone one little piece of control, one little thing they can do, they will gravitate towards that little bit of control.
'Kids have no control over their life. So we have to look after them, we make sure that they don't make bad decisions.
'If you allow them to have this one avenue, a lot of them will take it just because it's a bit of control.'
Now firmly on the other side of that dark chapter, Sascha has become a vocal critic of what he calls the 'rushed' approach to gender treatment, especially for young people.
He revealed he's been contacted by dozens of detransitioners since sharing his experience publicly. 'So many of them regret it. But the system doesn't want to hear from them - they're treated like they're an inconvenience.'
His memoir, Try to Hit the Pool - which will be released next month - dives deep into his mental health battle, marriage breakdown, aborted transition, and journey back to himself.
Sascha added: 'The book is a way for me to close that terrible saga of my life.'
Now, Sascha is focused on the arrival of baby Wolfgang - and on building a new life with Lucy, who has won the approval of hard-to-impress Bailey Snr.
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