Grimes divulges secret second child and ‘fluid relationship’ with Elon Musk
nypost.comwelcomed a baby girl via a surrogate in December, Vanity Fair revealed in a cover story, released Thursday. And if she didn’t start crying mid-interview, the world would never know Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, or Y for short, even existed.
Reporter Devin Gordon writes that he heard wails coming from upstairs in Grimes’ home in Austin, Texas. Knowing that her son with Musk was out with his father, he asked about the sounds.“I’m not at liberty to speak on these things,” Grimes, who at 33 is 17 years younger than Musk, told the magazine at first. “Whatever is going on with family stuff, I just feel like kids need to stay out of it,” she said, though she did eventually confirm there was a new baby: “She’s a little colicky too.” Of course, the second offspring of the richest man in the world couldn’t have a basic moniker.
Grimes, born Claire Boucher, said Y’s first name is based on the supercomputing term exaFLOPS, which refers to exascale computing with high floating point operations per second.
Translation: something that can perform 1 quintillion things per second. Her first middle name, Dark, Grimes told the magazine, refers to “the unknown.
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