Grimes has revealed that she and ex Elon Musk have changed their daughter’s name to a single symbol.
The 35-year-old Canadian musician – real name Claire Elise Boucher – shares two children with Twitter’s billionaire owner after welcoming son X Æ A-XII in May 2020 and daughter Exa Dark Sideræl in December 2021.
The Oblivion hit-maker raised eyebrows when announcing the unique monikers of both her children and appears to have had a change of heart over her youngest’s.
Taking to Twitter recently, she shared that she had changed her daughter’s name to “Y”, however, if she’d had her way, it would have been “?”
“She’s Y now, or “Why?” or just “?” (But the government won’t recognize that). curiosity, the eternal question... and such.” she wrote on the micro-blogging site.
Y 🐉 C pic.twitter.com/esTg8e5Gr7
— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) March 23, 2023
She also shared a rare picture of the adorable 15-month-old in which little Y was dressed in a red onesie with blonde spiky hair, with Grimes also wearing a similar outfit as she said her daughter was “channelling Goku” – a character from Japanese anime programme Dragon Ball Z.
She added: “(Normally we post her for her privacy but she’s fairly unrecognizable here since shes channeling Goku or smthn) [sic]”/
Y was born via surrogate in December 2021, which Grimes accidentally revealed in a Vanity Fair profile after the writer heard the baby’s cries in the background.
Grimes previously told how her eldest child calls her by her first name “Claire” instead of mummy after admitting that she doesn’t “identify” with the word “mother”.
“Being a mother feels weird to say for some reason. I don’t, like, identify with that word which is also really weird because X, he says ‘Claire’ but he doesn’t say, like, ‘mama,’” she told Vogue.
Adding: “I’m like, how are you?... Like, maybe he can like, sense my distaste for the word mother,” she said, adding, “Which I don’t even know why I have a distaste for ’cause I like, respect it, I just, I don’t, I can’t identify with it weirdly.”
