In case you missed the massive news that was dropped on the world yesterday, Grimes and Elon Musk have welcomed a second child together. The news, which was revealed in the singer’s cover story with Vanity Fair , sent shock waves across the world. Baby X Æ A-12 has a sibling and we’re just now finding out about it?
Anyway, here’s everything we know about the pair’s latest bundle of joy.
Canadian singer and mom Grimes announced that she and Elon Musk welcomed a second child together in a new cover story with “Vanity Fair.”
If you’re confused because you thought the pair had separated last year, you’re not alone.
“I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends,” Grimes explained.
“We see each other all the time…. We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.”
In one of the more controversial parts of the interview, Grimes insists Elon lives “below the poverty line” — I don’t think I need to explain why that’s a problematic statement, do I?
“Bro does not live like a billionaire. Bro lives at times below the poverty line,” she insisted.
“To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?”
If you’re scratching you’re head, know that you’re not alone.
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Grimes then went on to comment about Elon’s plan of moving humanity to Mars.
“The Mars project is hard,” she admitted. “There’s no income for it. There’s no way for it to make money. It’s for the benefit of humanity, and it’s dangerous and it’s expensive, and people are like, He’s hoarding money! “
“No, he’s spending everything on R&D.”
“Bro might say a lot of stupid [explective],” she adds, “but he does the right thing.”
Weird — I say the same thing about my husband!
Moving the conversation to motherhood, 33-year-old explained how difficult her first pregnancy was.
“It was kind of scary, because you don’t want to fall a lot when you’re eight months pregnant. So I would just crawl to the bathroom and crawl back or whatever.”
This traumatic experience explains why the pair opted for a surrogate for their second child, a daughter, who was born in December 2021.
Grimes explained that her daughter’s name is “fire” before writing it out — Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
She goes on to say that exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second).
Of course, that’s just a fun, scientific fact that we all know off the top of our head, right?
Dark, she continued, is “the unknown. People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe.”
Grimes goes on to text a voice memo to the “Vanity Fair” writer with the proper pronunciation of Sideræl.
It’s pronounced “sigh-deer-ee-el”—which she calls “a more elven” spelling of sidereal, “the true time of the universe, star time, deep space-time, not our relative earth time.”
As it turns out, it’s also a nod to her favorite ‘Lord of the Rings’ character, the powerful Galadriel, who “chooses to abdicate the ring.”
Well, at least these two are on the same page with their ~funky~ names!
h/t: Vanity Fair
