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Hannah Van De Peer & Zahna Eklund

'People are appalled by my daughter's name - they think it's slang for drugs'

A mum has defended her unusual name choice for her daughter after she was told it sounded like a slang term for cannabis and told her the little one would struggle to get a job when she's older.

Tenille Bain, 33, and her partner Michael, 29, decided to name their daughter Chree after the dad initially suggested the moniker - which is pronounced 'tree' - as a joke.

Despite it starting out as a joke when Tenille was pregnant, the beauty technician loved the name and chose to use it, even picking out the unique spelling to honour her own mum, Cheryl.

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