Grimes says baby X Æ A-XII calls her by first name as she doesn’t identify with ‘mum’

She's not mum, just Claire

In a Vogue 'Get Ready With Me' video, Grimes has revealed that her son X Æ A-XII calls her by her first name rather than 'mum'. In a video for Vogue's 'Get Ready With Me', which has seen A-listers reveal their beauty secrets, the 33-year-old singer dished on music, movies and motherhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oC1gYOnJrg But rather than her son call her something traditionally maternal, he refers to her by her birth name, Claire Elise Boucher. "Having a baby was a big kind of like rebirth for me, like artistically," she told Vogue. Last year, tech mogul Elon Musk and singer Grimes welcomed a new baby boy to their house named X Æ A-XII. Musk and Grimes seem to have different ideas about the pronunciation of their son's name. Initially, Grimes tweeted a somewhat helpful explanation. https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1257836061520101377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257836061520101377%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fhow-to-pronounce-x-ae-a-12-elon-musk-grimes-baby-name-2020-5 However, she later told Instagram fans that the 'Æ' was pronounced like Ai despite other outlets saying it's pronounced like the 'A' in 'cat' or 'bat'. But then Musk spoke to Joe Rogan on his podcast to set the record straight.: "It's just X, the letter X. And then the Æ is, like, pronounced 'ash,'" Musk told Rogan. "And then A-12 is my contribution... Archangel-12, the precursor to the SR-71, coolest plane ever." Related links:

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