Here is the “first photo” of Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s baby girl. Chrissy posted it last night. Do I even have to say anything about how the first baby photo is mostly about Chrissy’s boobs? I think I was expecting that. Chrissy even let people know ahead of the birth that she wasn’t going to stop her social media overshare once the baby arrived. If anything, I suspect Chrissy will be even more active on social media, because first-time moms do have the tendency to act like they are the first people to ever have a baby. No disrespect to first-time moms out there, it’s just that when it happens with celebrity moms, it can get a bit annoying.
Anyway, I was somewhat impressed with Chrissy and John’s baby name earlier this week. Since I don’t have much affection for her (but I love him), I had low expectations for an interesting or good baby-name. But I genuinely like “Luna Simone.” It’s off-beat, but not crazy. It works for a baby and an adult woman. I guess I didn’t realize that “Luna Simone” would lend itself to cutesy nicknames like… Lulu. Nope! I get that they’re probably intending it to be a family-only nickname, but that sh-t will stick. Soon everyone will be calling her Lulu Legend and that is no bueno. Lulu Legend sounds like a 70-year-old drag queen. Luna Stephens sounds like an astrologer and palm reader who makes a decent living, at least.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, WENN.
Congrats to Chrissy on her big boobs!
LMFAO, I love it!, its what she would want… really!, Homegirl is THIRST personified
All true, but I still can’t help but be encouraged by the fact that it’s clear she’s wearing a nursing bra. After that terrible story yesterday with Kim Kardashian trying to claim her toddler is the reason she’s not nursing her infant? Yeah, I’ll take what I can get. Thank you, Chrissy and your neverending desire to be a stah.
Disclaimer: Not all mothers have to make the same choices. It’s clear that breastmilk is best for babies, but it’s also clear that nursing is not best for all mothers. Babies thrive on formula every day. Babies thrive on breastmilk every day. To each their own, it’s just that I wish there was less cultural shame about a woman using her body the way it is designed to be used to nuture her child. Please carry own living your own lives the way you wish as long as you’re not, you know, murdering people or anything. If that’s the case I reserve the right to judge. Hard. 😉
Sorry but “breast is best” is half the problem. I HATE the saying. “Feeding baby is best” end of story! Simply saying breast is best is horribly guilting all the moms who physically couldn’t breast feed. I am one of them. My milk literally never came in. I tried every trick, doctors appointments for help, pumping nonstop and couldn’t produce. I cried for three days straight because I felt like the biggest failure ever to my 10 day old son. I cringe when total strangers ask me if I’m breast feeding my 7 month old. WHATS IT TO YOU?? Why are you asking me such a personal question that has NOTHING to do with you?? Can we please just be happy that people have healthy babies and that they are being fed in general?? Who cares if it’s formula or breast milk?!
Well, nutritionally speaking, (human) breastmilk is best for (human) babies. But I don’t think it’s my business to ask strangers whether they’re breast or formula feeding. So I don’t. If it comes up and someone is breastfeeding I’ll discuss the subject because it’s been a big part of a my life for several years now. I pumped through a period of a few weeks earlier this year to keep my supply up while adjusting to medication and during that time I formula fed my twins, so it’s not as if I think formula is the devil.
I’m sorry for the pain you went through struggling to do what you felt was right by your son. Sometimes things don’t work out the way we imagine they will. It’s as simple and as terrible as that. I’m lucky that my babies took back to breastfeeding after the extended break. I was terrified that they wouldn’t. We can all only do the best we can. I want all babies to have the best starts they can. Sometimes those best starts include formula. I take umbrage with flimsy reasoning like Kim Kardashian’s, not yours.
The amount of pressure that is put upon mothers is one of the biggest issues. Just on the issue of feeding, women are looked down on for not breastfeeding, then they’re kicked out of stores for breastfeeding in public because it makes other people uncomfortable. It took my second child being born for my Mom to get over me breastfeeding in public and she still finds the paintings depicting breasting feeding at the fine arts museum to be distasteful. Why? Because when she first started having babies as an eighteen-year-old in the early ’60s breastfeeding just wasn’t done. Even though it would have made more sense economically for her to nurse she made her own formula so as to fit in. Mother-shaming, sadly, is nothing new and until we address it nothing will change. That’s why I commented what I did. Pointing out healthy behavior is necessary to promote more of it. It wasn’t a personal attack against you, which is why I made sure to note that babies thrive on formula all the time. I’m sorry if I made you feel as if it was, I sincerely did not mean it that way.
Thank you for that. I certainly wasn’t directing the rant toward you, just the saying. I promise. I was crushed when it didn’t work out. When he was ten days old his doctor said ‘formula or hospital for rapid weight loss and dehydration’. That’s when it sank in that it had to be formula. The first few days were so emotional. I actually wouldn’t bottle feed him in front of people or out in public because I felt such shame for not breast feeding my tiny infant. Then, as he started to thrive and hit all his milestones early, the shame slipped away slowly. I still cringe when random people ask me if I’m breast feeding. Ugh. So times I just lie and say ‘yep’ and keep walking. In the long run, nobody can tell that the boy who graduated top of his class was breast fed or formula fed? That’s my point. I still tried to breast feed him before each formula bottle, but it never helped. He would just scream because nothing was coming out. I tried up until 8 weeks. Then it was clear the ship has sailed.
I think the origins of the saying were not intended to shame people but there was a big force against bf’ing for a long time and many people didn’t even consider doing it. I saw so many of those teens on Teen Mom or whatever shows who were factoring in the cost of formula before their baby was born, not even having attempted to BF which is bizarre.
So many people feed successfully and then switch off when baby is a few months old – when the aim is to be at least till 6 months, but hopefully longer.
It’s really trying to take the stigma off BF and encourage mothers to do it when possible.
People still get in a huff about women’s ‘immodesty’ of doing it in public and demand they be ‘classy’ and cover up… it’s still so shamed in society in it’s really just trying to get people over it being ‘weird’.
Noone is saying anything about you (well some people are, but they’re stupid) and your choices. Do what works!
byland and Lex said it best.
My first baby had latching problems and the agony of thinking I couldn’t feed my baby was terrible. My older sisters and my mother were with me and they even cried for me. People think it’s overreacting but when you want to do the best you can and you are told it is breastfeeding not being able hurts. I was a member of La Leche League and they put me in touch with a lactation specialist. Thankfully it worked. She had me drinking a tea that had fenugreek in it and it helped. But I remember those early days.
If you can great, but my mother didn’t, and we all survived.
haha!
She’ll probably turn her motherhood into another career venture, as she does with everything in her life. So very thirsty.
I prefer Lulu. At least it doesn’t remind me of pets. And it sounds like a Marvel character.
My first thought on Luna, was Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series and that girl was totally teased in the books. Boy does that baby have a head of hair!
I think she’s excited to finally be a mom after a long struggle with infertility. I’m about a month away from delivering my twins after 3 years of infertility & I’m thrilled, I’m sure she is too.
When your milk comes in, your boobs are HUGE, which makes them hard not to be in the photo. I like Chrissy & don’t really see why there’s so much hate on her here. Congrats to the new parents.
Congrats on the twins! But her boobs are in the photo because of the top she has on. I breastfed and my boobs were large (for me – I was a small B and became a minimum C while breast feeding) but I wore more modest clothing. Guess that’s just me and the way I felt about it. She can do what she wants.
Solution from a person who has big boobs all the time: Shirt that’s not so low cut.
Both the name and nickname are cute, as is their puppy. And the baby too!
Breast size when milk comes in is different for everyone! My neighbor breast fed for 12 months and had smaller than an A cup the entire time.
I like her a lot. She’s independent, funny, self-deprecating, philanthropic. I wish someone else that doesn’t have a bias against her could write the stories on here about her.
@lucy2 – I went from a pre-pregnancy DD to an H with my first, then up to an L with my second. At a certain point in the early days, there are no tops that can contain the monster that nursing boobs are.
I was actually kind of confused yesterday because on Good Morning America, they introduced the baby as Lulu Simone, but when I got on here, I saw Luna. I thought I had misheard the story on GMA. But now it all makes sense.
I like Luna. Not so much Lulu. But nicknames have a tendency to evolve.
Lulu in Austrian dialect means pee or whimp, so I prefer Simone.
That’s a really cute name, like something from Roger Rabbit!
Well she loves to show her boobs at any stage really, so no surprise there.
I also don’t like the Lulu thing, but, whatever.
I’m still so relieved she’s not “Cinnamon” or “Kotton-kandy” (since she’s friends with Kim) or some weird ass name. they’ll grow tired of lulu. I hope.
If I had her boobs and it was part of my job I’d show them off all the time, too. Her boobs are ah-may-zing.
I don’t get the whole “give your kid one name but then throw that name out & immediately refer to them by a different name” thing. If you want to call her Lulu, then name her Lulu. If you will always call your daughter Kaylee, don’t name her Katherine. Or, all the Alexanders being called Xander-just name him Xander! It’s a cool name!
I kinda like proper names on paper, and them nicknames as nicknames. I don’t like nicknames as names. Like, I prefer names Edith and Frances and then nicknames Edie and Frankie, rather than Edie and Frankie as names.
I agree with you Locke, one of my major things for my kids is that they have a proper, formal name that they can always use as grown ups or you know, for marrying royalty, and if I like a nick name, that can be used for every day.
We have a kid with a proper name and then a completely different name that she goes by. It kind of happened by accident, where a cute little nick name just took off and is very sweet for a little girl. But I doubt she will want to go by her nickname her whole life, and am happy she has a nice formal name to back it up, that she can go by whenever she wants as she gets older.
My family and childhood friends all call me a nickname, but my actual name has a more professional adult sound to it.
A lot of times too a kid is named after a family member, and then called a nickname to avoid confusion.
Because he might not fit as a Xander – he might be more of an Alex. Naming him Alexander gives him options when he’s an adult. I’m a Victoria but not a Vicki. I was a Vicki for my childhood and put my foot down in college, becoming Victoria. Vicki doesn’t suit me. If my parents had named me Vicki, I would have hated it even more.
I’m not a fan of Lulu either. My daughter has a nickname that just evolved and on paper people might think she’s Japanese if she used it.
It’s a sweet picture. But I’m sure people will find a way to pick it apart.
I’m in the obvious minority but the first thing I focused on was the amount of hair that tiny baby has.
Will Lulu Legend also be wearing a lot of Lululemon?
I keep thinking the same. Lol
Gorgeous!
She’s grown on me… I used to be so irritated by her but I’ve gotten used to her shenanigans. I’m sure the baby is absolutely beautiful! Adorable name.
I thought she would have posted a shot from the delivery room. Maybe motherhood has made her more restrained.
More likely that the delivery shot did not flatter her breasts so nicely. This is just another selfie masquerading as a baby introduction.
LOL. I wish this site had “like” buttons. 🙂
Aww, I hope she didn’t really mean to make her first baby pic/post about her boobs. If she did, I don’t understand that kind of thirst at such a special time. If she didn’t, then I see it as a cute picture with her lovingly gazing at Luna (with her furbaby watching over). Hopefully little Luna will be well loved and have a great future (as long as C & J don’t take any parenting tips from Kanye & Kim regarding education etc). Not sure I love the name Luna, mainly because I’ve known so many kitties such named. I probably prefer Lulu, (my daughters nickname is either Lulu or Lolo so, bias), but still don’t understand how that is a nickname for Luna when Luna is already a short name? It’s weird. If you are going to call her Lulu publicly, then why name her Luna?
I think it’s just a candid photo and she isn’t embarrassed by her boobs.
Luna Simone is pretty cute. Rofl at lulu legend as a 70 year old drag queen.
First photo of 10000000000. This is going to be just like Coco. I can see it. I am sure her daughter is beautiful, I mean with those genes how could she not be?
I think Chrissy and John are adorable, and I really like “Lulu”, maybe better than Luna, even. Cute pic. Haters will hate, but I think it’s sweet.
Her boobs are totally the focal point. In her defense, I had a kid 20 days ago, I’ve been nursing around the clock, and my boobs have been pretty much hanging out nonstop.
I am not posting photos to be seen by millions of people, though…
Congratulations on the new baby!
Thanks! He’s my first, too. It’s been quite the experience.
Awww, congrats!! Been a long time since I had my babies, they’re 27 and 23 now, but my oldest son and his wife are expecting their first baby (my first grandchild) in August and I’m soooo excited at the prospect of having a baby around again! We just found out it’s a girl last week and I’m so excited, having had boys myself! Yay, babies! 🙂
WOO HOOOO to you and the new little one!!! Congratulations!! My “babies” are almost 18, and 9.
May peace and joy be yours to share with your child. WONDERFUL news!
Congrats! 🙂
All I see is her boobs, the baby is secondary. It’s not like it’s a pap shot, she put it out there, she chose it carefully. I like her and john more so, but this photo is all about her.
I remember when Miranda Kerr posted a breastfeeding pic of her in a red silk dressing gown, legs crossed for maximum exposure, full face of makeup and come to bed eyes, it’s was actually disturbing. Those kind of pics are all about the mom, never the child
So true, but they’re supposed to be mothers now, they’re just being natural, it’s the world who is cruel and mean to a poor mom innocently holding her baby while her boobs are oh so casually hanging out.
Now that I’ve seen I can’t unsee – the poor dog in the foreground having a moment of realization. Awww!
´Moment of realization’ OMG, so true! That dog is awesome!
Yep, all about her and her boobs.
In defense of the boobs: if you were well endowed before birth and nursing, you’re going to look massive for a while. She’s a celeb, so whoop de do. We aren’t seeing nip!
I’m I the only one who couldn’t handle wearing a shirt at all during the first days of breastfeeding?
I think it is precious the way she is looking at and touching the baby. We’ve all seen the boobs before. Lulu is cute and hopefully will be a family nickname.
Thirsty AND gross.
I don’t even see the baby .
Oh, no, oversharing is annoying from non-celebrity moms as well.