diff --git a/src/convnets/inception.jl b/src/convnets/inception.jl
index ceedf7aa7..ebd7ab809 100644
--- a/src/convnets/inception.jl
+++ b/src/convnets/inception.jl
@@ -579,9 +579,10 @@ Creates an Xception model.
     
     `Xception` does not currently support pretrained weights.
 """
-function Xception(; inchannels = 3, dropout = 0.0, nclasses = 1000)
-    layers = xception(; inchannels, dropout, nclasses)
-    return Xception(layers)
+function Xception(; pretrain = false, inchannels = 3, dropout = 0.0, nclasses = 1000)
+    layers = Xception(xception(; inchannels, dropout, nclasses))
+    pretrain && loadpretrain!(layers, "xception")
+    return layers
 end
 
 @functor Xception