Update: In June 2022, Vivian Wilson filed to legally change her name and gender. This content was written in September 2021, before Wilson’s gender identity and name change became publicly known.
Grimeswelcomed her first child last year, but she says she prefers not to be called “mom.”
“Which is also really weird because X, he says ‘Claire,’ but he doesn’t say ‘mama.’ Which is so… I’m like, ‘How are you…?’ " she continued. “Like, maybe he can sense my distaste for the word ‘mother.’ "
Grimes and Elon Musk with their son X AE A-Xii.Elon Musk/Twitter
Grimes added, “I don’t even know why I have a distaste for [the word] because I respect … I just, I don’t, I can’t identify with it, weirdly.”
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
While they initially named him X Æ A-12, the couple laterchangedtheir son’s name to X Æ A-Xii on his birth certificate. Family law attorney David Glass told PEOPLE last year, “you can’t have numbers, Roman numerals, accents, umlauts or other symbols or emojis” in a legal name in California.
Grimes and Elon Musk.Taylor Hill/Getty
Grimes firstrevealedher pregnancy in February 2020. In a digital cover story forRolling Stonepublished a month later, the singerconfirmedMusk was the father and opened up about her thoughts on motherhood.
Grimes told the outlet her song “So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth” was “about getting pregnant — the sort of tragedy of agreeing to it, even though it’s this great thing.”
She added, “For a girl, it’s sacrificing your body and your freedom. It’s a pretty crazy sacrifice and only half of the population has to do it. It was really profound to me when I decided I was going to do it, to actually go through the act of unprotected sex.”
source: people.com
