I’ve said some things about twins before which have been taken disparagingly, although that was not my intent. Growing up, I didn’t know many twins – twins and multiples definitely became more common with the growth in fertility treatments in the 1990s and beyond. Twins have always fascinated me, and I always read the “twin studies,” like how twins raised separately will be interested in the same things, choose similar partners, have similar mannerisms and all of that. But what of twins raised together and still crazy-close into adulthood? So it is with Nikki and Brie Bella. One twin got married to a regular dude while the other twin was in a disastrous relationship with a celebrity who did NOT want to marry her. Nikki ended up dumping John Cena and moving on quickly with Artem Chigvintsev, a dancer on DWTS. And somehow, both Brie and Nikki ended up pregnant at the same time and they ended up giving birth within A LITERAL DAY of each other. They cover the latest issue of People Magazine and they’re introducing their boys (because they both gave birth to boys).
Nikki and Brie Bella are overwhelmed with joy and ready to introduce their boys to the world. Meet Matteo and Buddy! In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the Total Bellas stars, both 36, open up about giving birth within 22 hours of each other and how in love they already are with their sons (despite the lack of sleep!).
“I’ve been up since 3 a.m., but this is what I’ve wanted my whole life,” says Nikki, who welcomed her first child, son Matteo Artemovich, with her fiancé, Dancing with the Stars pro Artem Chigvintsev , 38, on July 31. “The fact that he’s here — I’m just so in love and happy.”
“That’s what happens when you’re on an infant schedule,” adds Brie, who gave birth to son Buddy Dessert on Aug. 1. (She and her husband, wrestler Daniel Bryan, 39, also have a 3-year-old daughter, Birdie.) “But like Nikki said, the love is just so overpowering that even though you’re so tired, that bliss just takes over.”
The rest of the People article is just a graphic description of both of their delivery stories and honestly, I will always want to take a hard pass on those. I actually don’t want to know about how you forced yourself to deliver your baby vaginally! You don’t get a prize for that, my God. Anyway, thoughts on the names? I like the name Matteo, honestly. And Matteo Artemovich fits together. But Buddy Dessert Bryan? Brie, stop it.
Cover courtesy of People.
Dessert? Not desert? I mean either way it’s a choice.
LOL that the article clarified she and her sister are the same age. Twins usually are.
… Buddy Dessert? Hahahaha that’s terrible though.
I guess Brie married “a regular dude,” but he is also a hugely successful and extremely popular professional wrestler. It’s not like he’s nobody normal. He’s just not John Cena.
Buddy? Ugh.
Buddy and Birdie. What is their fixation on those sounds?
We had a dog named Buddy. What a horrible name for a child.
Buddy is a super common nickname in the south. I just don’t know anyone with that as their legal name.
Yess, that was totally my thought when I read “regular dude”. Lol he’s not John Cena like you said but definitely not a regular dude
I’m not sure I’d want to be married to a twin that has such a close relationship with the other twin. I’d be jelly
Must be big fans of “cake boss”.
Twins and multiples are interesting. Is that a rude observation? I’m missing how that’s offensive. I’m with you, Kaiser. These kinds of twin stories fascinate me too. Even if they planned this, for the conceptions and births to be that in sync is remarkable. Maybe it’s all just a coincidence but it doesn’t seem unreasonable to think there is some twin symbiosis happening too.
The babies are adorable! And I ike the name Buddy. Reminds me of Hey Dude, that dude ranch show from the 90s.
Nobel prize winner Buddy Dessert Bryan.
I dunno.
Dessert? I hope that’s a typo and it’s Desert, though that’s not much better. People.com articles are usually riddled with typos (in their online article on this very subject, they spelled Matteo two ways).
Matteo is a very nice name. Buddy…will not age well. Yuck.
Buddy Dessert?!?!
Buddy was named after his grandfather. I seriously doubt his middle name is Dessert, was Desert misspelled?
I love the name Matteo.
I love Matteo too! My son is Matthew.
Brie named her daughter Birdie. Terrible taste in names so Buddy doesn’t surprise me. Her husband isn’t exactly a normal dude – he’s a very famous and rich WWE wrestler who chooses to live a more “natural”, hippie lifestyle. I wonder if Brie wasn’t married to him if she’d have the reputation as the grounded twin; sometimes on the show it seems like her husband pushes her to live less extravagantly.
I’ve listened to them as guests on a couple podcasts, and maybe it’s a firm commitment to her brand, but Brie definitely sounds like the more grounded twin. From when they were kids, Nikki describes herself as far more wild, although neither was tame at all.
Idk seems a little creepy to me. Like where does one start and other begin?
My grandmother was an identical twin. They were my great grandmother’s first pregnancy and in 1923, she obviously didn’t know she was having twins. They were exceptionally close, living next door to each other once married with kids. Eventually they moved to different towns but always ended up in the same outfit but different colors (without planning it) and they were both diagnosed with thyroid conditions and heart murmurs late in life and skin cancer on the same part of their nose. I always thought it was so much fun to have 2 Grammy’s.
This might come off as mean, but I can’t with some of the names celebrity parents use. I know Kal-El and other nutso cases exist, but with the ‘normal’ realm, Buddy? Really? Can you imagine a 25 year old man introducing himself as Mr. Buddy Bryan? A middle-aged 45 yr old with the name ‘Buddy’? Do people not realize cute cuddly babies and kids grow up?!
He’ll probably go by Bud if he turns into an actual professional grown up. Buddy is just a crippling name IMO…………nobody is going to respect someone ACTUALLY named Buddy. My grandad went by Bud as a nickname but he had an actual, real name!
In my country a buddy is a penis (poor baby)
Per Brie’s instagram, Dessert is after her grandma’s maiden name. It’s pronounced Desert, mercifully.
Hmm. I feel like they should’ve spelled it Desert, even if it was after her grandmother. No one will know it’s pronounced that way just by looking at it!
Jamie Oliver’s son is called Buddy Bear, and yet all I can think about it Buddy Holly.
I laughed out loud at these names. Buddy and Dessert??
And y’all were giving Lea Michele a hard time for Ever Leo.
This is a crazy name. This is it!!!
Beautiful babies but poor Buddy! Also it’s going to be confusing to have a Birdie and a Buddy in the same house, when called or yelled it’ll be hard to tell who’s actually being summoned or reprimanded. I have a name that, on paper, is nothing like my mom’s but we both have three syllables that end in A and there was occasional confusion when my dad would call one of us from a different room.
Well I hope that Buddy Dessert has aspirations of becoming a professional wrestler like his parents because he’s already got the wrestling name.
Are they fraternal or identical? I recently learned that children of identical siblings are actually considered genetic half-siblings at the DNA level and not just cousins (unless two sets of identical twins marry each other, then the kids are considered full genetic siblings). Or something along those lines which I found fascinating.
They are identical. That means they are indeed clones of each other, so their kids are much more closely related (genetically speaking) than first cousins. Like you said, on par with the DNA relationship between half-siblings.
Awwwww…bubbies! Adorable boys and lovely news for a change. 🍼 🍼