Every year the Gerber Products Company chooses the smiling face of one toddler to be their spokesbaby, and for the first time ever they selected a child who has Down syndrome.
Lucas Warren is the adorable 1 year old from Dalton, Georgia, who was announced as the 2018 Gerber Spokesbaby on Facebook this week.
“Congratulations to our 2018 Gerber Spokesbaby, Lucas! Welcome to the family!” the company captioned a photo of baby Lucas smiling from ear to ear wearing dress clothes complete with a bow tie.
The iconic charcoal-sketched logo displayed on all of Gerber’s packaging was done 90 years ago. It features a 4-month-old Ann Turner Cook, who was a Gerber baby in 1928 and is still alive and living in Florida, according to Inside Edition.
Since then, the baby food company has hosted an annual photo contest where judges review the entries to find “children from birth to preschool age whose photos displayed expressiveness and consistency with Gerber’s heritage. Since the inception of Photo Search seven years ago, Gerber has awarded eight (twins in 2013) tiny tots the Photo Search crown.”
This year’s winning submission was submitted by the baby’s mother, Cortney, who told the “Today” show she “entered the Gerber contest on a whim after a relative pointed out an ad seeking submissions. After posting a photo of Lucas on Instagram using the contest’s hashtag, Cortney and her husband, Jason, received the news that their son had been chosen from more than 140,000 entries to be the 2018 Gerber…
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