Christina Aguilera has finally given birth! She delivered a baby girl via C-section on Saturday, August 16th. This is Christina’s second child, but her first kid with fiancé Matt Rutler, her boyfriend/partner of something like three years. Christina is also mom to son Max, with her first husband Jordan Bratman. They announced the name of their little girl late yesterday: Summer Rain Rutler. I knew a girl named Summer and she was one of the coolest girls in the world, so I have good associations with the name. But… Summer Rain Rutler sounds like some kind of minor affliction.
Aguilera’s angel has arrived! Christina Aguilera and fiance Matt Rutler welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, on Saturday, Aug. 16, Us Weekly can confirm. The Grammy winner, 33, gave birth via a C-section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Us broke news in February that the “Fighter” singer and Rutler — who got engaged just one month earlier — were expanding their family. In March, it was confirmed that they were expecting a little girl.
Aguilera was the guest of honor at a baby shower in L.A. on July 12. She glowed in a white Lattice maxi dress, donned a flower wreath headband and added a pop of color with a red lip. Rutler, on hand for the co-ed bash, sweetly kissed her growing belly during the festivities.
“It was very romantic with candles everywhere,” an insider told Us at the time. “Christina looked so happy and excited.” The Voice mentor’s gal pals sipped on pink champagne and guests were treated to a very graphic cake, which showed a blonde woman giving birth.Comfortable in her own skin, nude photos of Aguilera showing off her baby bump were released by V magazine on Aug. 1. “As a woman, I’m proud to embrace my body through all stages of life, staying fearless and confident in surrendering to the unknowns the future has in store,” she told the mag. She also showed her appreciation for those involved with the photo shoot via Instagram. “[Thank you for] giving me the freedom to bare my soul & body at this incredible, magical, transition time in my life. #Grateful,” she wrote on Aug. 1.
This is the second child for Aguilera and the first for Rutler. The powerhouse singer is already mom to 6-year-old son Max, whom she shares with ex-husband Jordan Bratman.
I’m a little bit surprised that Christina had a C-section, only because just a few days beforehand, everyone was saying that she wanted to do a natural birth. Maybe there were some complications or something. And God knows, she’s tiny – maybe the doctors thought a C-section would be preferable. Anyway, congrats to Christina, Matt and Baby Girl Rutler.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Summer Rain is a gorgeous name.
That was my reaction, too! Much better than the various crazy celebrity names we have been hearing lately.
I’d like to see a celebrity give their child a normal name one of these days, though. It would be refreshing. In a sea of people with crazy hippie names a normal name will stand out again.
I really dislike that name. Max is a gorgeous name, though.
Are names like Summer, Rain, River an American thing or are they normal in The UK too?
i dont think summer rutler has a good sound to it
but not my baby and could be way worse
“Summer” is a nice name and “Rain” is a nice name but together they sound like the name of a Glade air freshener. Me no likey.
I agree with Sugar but it’s still better than “Blue Ivy” or “Bronx Mowgli” or Apple
My middle name is Rain and I love it, but I’m glad I have a first name that is in no way associated with it (i.e. not Summer or Autumn or whatever.)
I happen to like it. It so much better than Apple or North or Bronx whatever. But that is just me.
I don’t like when names end and start with the same sound, because then you lose the sound for the second name, and she did it twice! Summer Ain, Summer Utler. Plus Summer Utler rhymes so I like it even less.
I love the name Summer.
Summer Rain is kind of a cliche that I avoid in writing, but this is to be expected from a pop star. I guess that sounds a bit catty, but she’s no Anais Nin when it comes to prose. Yes, it’s a “sweet” name, but how about, Autumn Fox, or Winter Lotus, for the sake of unique and poetic. My son has one of those hippie names, as do most of his peers, and i suppose there was an excavation in all names extraordinary over the past few decades. I love the freedom of naming your child, but one just hopes to can afford an exclusive hippie school to avoid the name shaming until they are 18.
Isnt that the name of a WWE Diva?
It’s definitely the name of a Belinda Carlisle song. Maybe CA’s an undercover Go-Go’s fan? 🙂
I like the name a lot.
It’s an ok name but a little on the hippie side. Maybe she will have playdates with Rainbow Rotella.
I just laugh bc I know someone whose drag performance name is Summer Rayne.
It sounds like a feminine hygiene product
Seriously! My first thought was douche. Haha
That was my first thought, too!
Ha! For when you just don’t feel “fresh.”
Exactly! I was trying to think of the name of the douche product – its “Summer’s Eve”. Perhaps I am dating myself, but I do remember the product!
I have no problems with Summer…but Summer Rain sounds so hippie-ish and doesn’t really go with her son’s name Max. I don’t know.
I don’t care for names like that – North West, Spring Rose, Autumn Wind or whatever. Too cutsie / stripper for my taste. But Congrats to the parents.
Lets settle for a Stripper’s Deodorant Gnat..cause i too go back and forth: Stripper Stage Name, Parents that came too late to the hippies by 30 years, Douche or deodorant marketed to ladies under hazy lights
Lol, perfect. For when those lights get really hot deodorant – Summer Rain for The Stripper in You
Yeah, Summer is sweet but Summer Rain sounds like a deodorant scent.
Her son’s first and middle names are supposed to mean “my greatest song,” so her kids both have kind of “hippie-ish” names.
KB
Lior is Hebrew and translates to my light
I think Max means greatest
Ah. I thought his middle name was Liron? In any event, those are some high expectations for her son to live up to. I’m glad my name means “pure” and “devoted to God.” 😉
His middle name is Liron, not Lior.
in the immortal words of Emily Litella, “never mind”
Agreed! You can name your first kid whatever you like, but if you have another one after that, the names should more or less match. Max and Summer don’t go together at all.
But Max and Rain do – short, monosyllabic.
This name is cute, but kind of sounds like a name I would give my first beachfront restaurant
It’s a pretty name, a little hippyish like others have said but I still like it. Congrats to her 🙂
Summer Rain? I fully expect her to dress in long cotton muu-muu’s and to decorate her home with dream catchers and have a kiln and to bake her own bread by wheat harvested from her own backyard, while feverishly working on improving her environment in order to have a more pleasing aura…while wearing jewelry to repel the “evil eye”
Oy. Whatever happened to naming your child something “ordinary” and not so “special snowflake-like?”
Where are the Margaret’s, the Judith’s, the Abigail’s, the Rebecca’s, the Claire’s? I’ll take a Jessica or Jennifer or even a Clarissa…
Screw it…what about Grace? Katherine? Samantha? Elizabeth? Gabriella? Too mundane?
I think the only time I’ll only be impressed by a celebrity baby name will be if the name is in the “normal” range.
Agreed.
Ahahah, you know a couple of friend of mine named their son Matthew, and people started saying things like “why did you give your son such an ordinary name ?” answer: “because we want him to survive the boarding school”.
Exactly, as a parent, when I named my children I gave them names that could go anywhere in life. If you name your child Mitzy Princess Trixibell, you’re hardly expecting her to aspire to be a high-court judge are you?
Seriously. The other day I was guest at a seminar my friend was overseeing and I KID YOU NOT some chick got annoyed at my friend while taking roll call because she mispronounced the girls name. And she’s a teacher, so she’s seen some pretty “out there” names before.
My friend called out La…ah? (thinking it was a name of Asian or Middle Eastern descent she couldn’t pronounce)
Well it turns out the girls name was “Lahdahshah” (which is very pretty phonetically as you can see with all the “ah” parts in it)…and after the seminar was over, my friend showed me her roll sheet…and I almost died.
The girl’s name was spelled La-a. Literally. LA-A.
L. A. (punctuation mark) A.
I’m sorry but no. Getting pissed because someone mispronounced your name when it’s basically a punctuation mark and a vowel or two is ridiculous. But I don’t see that name going over well in Corporate America. I mean, imagine having to tell your client the person handling their multi-million dollar account has a name that is pretty much the “commoner” version of “The Artist Formally Known As Prince?”
Oh, I’ve seen that Lahdahshah story 8 million times. It’s all over the Internet and everyone thinks they’re telling a new (and true) story of someone whose cousin’s sister’s friend’s mom’s neighbor’s son’s barber knows someone who works in a hospital or clinic or school and came across that name.
@sooloo Lol. its not a story if you’re there. You DO realize there ARE little girls with that name right? It wouldnt surprise me if someone else on this site encountered someone with that name as well. You would be shocked over some of the names that my friend has had to deal with as a teacher (And yes, we mock them privately). It gets worse when you work in human resources….oh the disasters you find on some of those job applications are gut bustin. And before I go, the whole naming you kid USNAVY thing is true too. I know two people who have little boy relatives that are named that — they’re from El Salvador and apparently the name is getting real common over there. (Not everything you read on the internet is false)
It is not just celebrity parents. There are a couple of kids I know that I cringe when I think of their names. I don’t know what their parents were thinking….
Dijonnaise is my current favorite regular person name that I’ve encountered lately. I wouldn’t have believed it, but my work involves taking state issued IDs, so it was real. Perhaps her parents really love condiments.
simon cowell’s kid has a normal name, but that’s about the only one…
There are several others but I think the hardest part is to find celebrities who are consistent and named more than one kid traditionally. Like Kate Winslet who has Joe and Mia but she named her last Bear. Or Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie who have Charlotte and then Rocky. I don’t like Mark Whalberg but all of his kids have pretty, traditional names – Michael, Brendan, Grace and Ella, Colin Farrell has James and Henry and Julie Bowen has John, Oliver and Gustav.
I like Summer, but not Summer Rain…or Winter Snow, Or Spring Blossom or Autumn Leaf.
Oh, sorry, I hadn’t read down and said basically the same thing above. I don’t like those types of names, either.
I babysat a “Honey Blossom” when I was a teenager and thought it was the cutest name for a baby. But now Honey Blossom is in college so it just seems kind of odd for an adult
I like the name Summer a lot.
Summer Rain is too cutesy for me.
Summer Rutler doesn’t sound great.
When you stick the middle name in there it sounds okay, but “Summer Rutler” is too R-heavy and difficult to say.
Summer Rain….sounds like douche product/smell.
It’s a cute name. No one is going to call the kid by first and middle name unless she’s in trouble anyway LOL
I hear Summer Rain and my mind went straight to Summer’s Eve. Yeah, her kid’s name reminds me of feminine hygiene products.
I love Summer and I love Rain, but not together.
My first thought was, Summer Rain? Like the Belinda Carlisle song?
Our families last name is Storm. We have a Rain Storm. Who is in her late 30’s and a wildlife biologist so it suits her. And two little cousins Autumn Rayne Storm and a Summer Storm. Makes family gatherings interesting.
She had her first child via csection bc she didn’t want a vaginal birth. It’s often hard to get a VBAC. Everyone was against me until the day I went into labor, with the exception of one person.
I don’t understand why the link in the article put the words gave birth in quotations.
I didn’t have a c section but I also get annoyed when it’s not recognized as giving birth. Surgically, vaginally-if you are expelling a child from your body-it’s giving birth.
I don’t know the circumstances of her first birth but if it was a c section, she may have just not been a good candidate for a vaginal delivery this time around. I doubt it has anything to do with her size, though.
Summer Rain? Like the dollar shampoo? Summer is a nice name in itself but damn
Sounds like an air freshener fragrance or worse a feminine hygiene product.
Should have named her daughter Ruby……
The fisrt thing that comes to mind is the Phoenix siblings, two of River’s sisters are Summer and Rain.
Summer is pretty but I don’t like when the last letter of the first name is the same as the first letter of the last name. It sounds like Summer Utler.
What with all these “it’s too hippyish” comments?! What exactly is wrong with a name that sound like a hippy ? That’s a good thing, in my book.
She had a scheduled C-section with Max so I never doubted for a second that she would have one with this baby.
I like the name Summer Rain but its just a little too close to Summer’s Eve….
When I saw this headline I shook my head… Because I had a daughter on this Friday the 15th and named her Summer. Oh well no one can say I copied Christina Aguilera since my daughter was the day before. (And her middle name is Ellen)
Congratulations on the birth of your precious angel!
Thank you!
Congrats! I have ayoung cousin named Summer Ellen, she goes by Elle. 😄
That’s awesome! I liked the name in the hospital but I love it more every day. Elle is a really sweet nickname .
A guilders is really a “has been” artist. She hasn’t had a hit in a long time.
Maybe she got pregnant one afternoon during a light summer rain.
It was November 9 months ago.
Beautiful!!! That’s my daughter’s name also!!!
Fantastic! An alcoholic and notorious bitch has another child. Here’s hoping she hires some good nannies. I honestly dread to see how some of these celeb babies will be when they grow up.
Isn’t Summer Rain a song? I’m legit asking.
Purple rain?
November Rain?
Had to google out of curiosity. Apparently a guy named Carl Thomas has a song by that name, but I’ve never heard it! Oh, and Matthew Morrison, Belinda Carlisle, Johnny Rivers…
I like Christina but did lose a little respect for her when she admitted she chose to have an early c section with her son to save herself from “vaginal tearing”. I completely understand if it’s necessary to have a c section, and of course she’s free to do as she pleases, but to yank your baby out 3 weeks early to you don’t get stretch marks and your vagina stays intact is pretty selfish in my opinion. Maybe she wanted to do it differently this time and it didn’t work out, either way I’m happy baby girl is doing well! I also like the name, I expected something more traditional since her son is Max, but Summer is cute.
Did she say she had the C-section three weeks early? Or did she say she had a c-section to avoid vaginal tearing and everyone assumes it was early? A friend of mine also scheduled her c-section as she had zero plans to deliver vaginally since scheduling last min childcare for her other kids would have been difficult with a “spontaneous” labor and a husband that travels on business frequently, but it was right around the 39th – 40th week (due dates aren’t set in stone. They can be off by a week or two). The lack of vaginal tearing was a bonus.
She did an interview if I remember correctly, said she didn’t want any tearing and was ready to be done with pregnancy early, at 37 weeks. I didn’t even think it was legal to do them electively before 38 or 39 weeks.
I can understand your friend scheduling hers though, it’s different in situations like that!
The other issue with Max was that Jordan (her ex-husband) was a music marketing exec who traveled a lot and they wanted to make sure he was in town and available to be with her during the birth.
I can understand that but wait until at least 38 weeks, the lungs are still developing and every second in the womb makes a difference, I can’t believe her dr even did it, irresponsible.
Britney Spears also had a scheduled C-Section. I think a lot of celebrities have, because they’ve never heard of kegels.
I love the name Summer but Summer Rain sounds like a shampoo or body wash or candle scent.
Xtina has always been very open and vocal about the fact that she had a planned c-section with her first and scheduled it from just about the moment she found out she was expecting him as she “heard about the horrible things” that vaginal births can do to one’s um, lady bits, and knew from the start that she didn’t want to go there. I highly doubt she ever planned doing it any other way with her second and though I don’t feel the same way, I completely admire her candor and honesty on the subject.
The fact is, at least according to the American Medical Association who knows a lot better than me, the vast majority of cesarians in this country are ELECTIVE (at 76%) and yet most women feel afraid to admit that they’ve made that choice. Besides, the fact is that even if Christina did decide that she wanted to go the route of VBAC a la fellow celeb Kate Hudson, the sad truth is that she’d have been hard pressed to find an OBGYN who would be happily willing to perform one :/ (The whole idea of “Once a C, always a C” is so unnecessary and outdated.)
P.S. Love the baby’s name! 😀