Adriana Lima gave birth on Sunday to a little girl. Adriana and her husband Marko Jaric named their daughter Valentina Lima Jaric. Salma Hayek’s beautiful little girl is named Valentina too, so I guess the name is officially trendy. Personally, I don’t love it or hate it. As for the other “trend” – I guess the girl doesn’t have a real middle name, she just her mom’s maiden name? That trend is growing in popularity – my name’s trend never did. I’m the only person I’ve ever known with no middle name. Not trendy! Anyhoodle, Adriana seems to have had a very easy pregnancy – she and Marko announced in late May, a little more than three months after their elopement. As a matter of fact, Valentina was born almost exactly nine months after their wedding day – Valentine’s Day. Looks like they had a honeymoon baby! This is even more interesting (sort of) because Adriana always talked about how she was saving herself for marriage. It’s all so old-school.
Adriana Lima now has a little angel of her own: the Victoria’s Secret model and her husband, NBA star Marko Jaric, welcomed a daughter on Sunday in New York City.
“Adriana and Marko are thrilled to announce they had a baby girl, Valentina Lima Jaric,” a rep for Lima tells PEOPLE. “Mother, father and baby are all doing well.”
Lima, 28, met the Memphis Grizzlies star, 31, in 2006 and got engaged two years later on Lima’s 27th birthday. The couple eloped on Valentine’s Day this year, tying the knot in a small, private civil ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Soon after the honeymoon, Lima learned she was expecting. “We are so excited!” she told PEOPLE at the time. “We wanted this. We were ready.”
“Even in my wildest days I knew that I wanted to be the ultimate family man,” Jaric adds. “We’re ready to settle down.”
[From People]
Congratulations to the happy family! I’m sure they’re thrilled, but I’d also guess that Marko probably wants a boy (someone to play sports with, just my guess). It sounds like Adriana is probably going to “pull a Klum” and get knocked up again any minute now too. I wonder if Adriana is going to hang up her Victoria’s Secret diamond-bedazzled push-up bra now? Doubtful. She’ll probably get her figure back in two seconds.
Adriana and Marko are seen at the 2008 ESPY Awards on July 16, 2008 in Los Angeles, credit: Getty/PicApp. Adriana pictured, in black, at the New York premiere of ‘Coco Before Chanel’ on September 15, 2009 and at the launch of Victoria’s Secret ‘Noir Fragrance and Body Care Collection’ May 9, 2009. Credit for both: WENN.
I am middle nameless as well.
It is very traditional in the southern US and in Europe (I think?!) to give a child the mother’s maiden name as a middle name. So not trendy at all, for trendy, think multiple middle names 🙂
For some reason, that chick reminds me of Rosie O’Donnell. I think it’s the snarl.
Us Czechs don’t do middle names, too.
Honey moon baby??? Color me jaded, I think the did before the wedding hence the elopment. A man has to be a saint to hold on for two years and save himself when he is engaged to the woman already.
He has rat eyes, but congrats!
I wonder if the baby looks like her…or him?
I know some people with no middle names.
My grandmother kept her last name when she was married as her middle name.
Which is odd because she and my grandfather had the same last name…so she has two of the same name. Like Susan Jones Jones.
I want her nose!
Mine is MMM I kid you not named after my grandma and yes it a southern thing me being born in NC.
I sincerely hope this little girl takes after her mother. Adriana is a gorgeous woman.
Neither my mom nor I have middle names. She kept her maiden as middle but I’m just sticking with what I got at birth 🙂 Preggo with a little girl and I will probably give her my maiden name as middle.
I don’t have a middle name either. I never wanted one anyway.
My mom named me after my aunts with various versions of their names. That’s how most of the people I know got their names-being named after relatives.
Adriana has weird bunny teeth and he’s got tiny, weird rat eyes. Please let this child get her eyes and his mouth.
I always thought the middle name thing was simply very common in Hispanic cultures rather than a trend thing. Like, both my Filipino parents’ middle names are their mothers’ maiden names, but they didn’t do that with me.
Maybe no one liked you enough to give you a middle name.
I’m Middle Eastern and was given no middle name. I informally adopted the name I took during my confirmation, Madonna. Now, because that’s so embarrassing, I just use Mary or Maria.
My dad has no middle name. His parents were Eastern European.
I don’t have a middle name as well. In my culture first the father’s first name is middle name for girls, and once married, the husband’s first name is middle name and his last name is your last name. The feminist in me did not want to take my husband’s name as middle, although I did take his last name — easier to pronounce. So ya I don’t have a middle name.
Serbs don’t have middle names. It isn’t an Eastern/Southern European thing…
It’s kinda sweet they named their little girl Valentina for her conception date. I think she was probably concieved on Valentine’s Day or soon after. (Born November 10th – I too am a V-Day baby, a fact I kindly asked my parents to stop sharing at dinner parties). I know there are a lot of early November babies coming off the Valentine’s Day boom, just like there are a lot of August babies from Christmas-New Years boom.
My sister and I both have my mother’s maiden name as our middle names, as do several maternal cousins, with no other “real” middle name.
Kaiser, no worries, I have 2 friends without middle names. There are others out there!
We brazilians do this way: First name, mothers maiden name and then the fathers name. When girls get married they usually add the husbands last name. It´s becoming more usual to get married and not add your husband name. Guys are allowed to add their wife name too, but they seldon do.
Oh, and Valentina is quite trendy in Brazil these days. Maybe because there are millions of brazilians with italian ascedendence.
I hate TWO middle names and I hate it 🙁
loves you all the turkey and the cosmos!!