Billionaire Elon Musk and singer Grimes secretly welcomed a second baby, named Exa Dark Sider?l Musk, via surrogate in December. The baby girl, nicknamed Y, is Grimes' second child and Musk's eighth.?
The baby's secret birth was revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair on Thursday. Initially, Grimes was reluctant to reveal the news of her second baby with the Tesla CEO but journalist Devin Gordon overheard the baby crying during the interview at the Canadian singer's home.?
Well, Exa, Dark and Musk are all simple, but Sider?l?Sider?l is pronounced as "sigh-deer-ee-el".
According to Grimes, Exa refers to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS or the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations a second. She added that Dark represents "the unknown.?People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe."?
Sider?l is a "more elven" spelling of sidereal, "the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time."
The baby's name also honours Grimes' favourite Lord of the Rings character Galadriel, who "chooses to abdicate the ring".?
The singer said she was "fighting" to name her daughter Odysseus Musk, because "A girl named Odysseus is my dream."
In a Twitter thread, she said, "I did this to speak abt my work, not “reveal all” haha. Def held back a lot, contrary 2 headline. & didn’t mean for them 2 find out about my daughter so please respect her privacy as I’d love her to be able to live as private of a life as possible."
She added, "Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he’s my best friend and the love of my life."?
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