How come celebrities like to wait several days before announcing their babies' names to their fans? Is J.Lo waiting to announce it for whenever she sells the first photos to a mag?
—Adrianna, Lisbon, Portugal
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Remember, these are celebrities. They have nothing—nothing!—to themselves, aside from their houses in Malibu, villas on Lake Como, multiple cars, boutique production companies or record labels and the private VIP booths at their favorite restaurants. Oh, I forgot their private planes. Other than that, these people have absolutely nada to call their own.
So, can't they have this one thing, the name of their child, for themselves?
Sheesh.
That seems to be the logic, anyway, if celebrity interviews on this subject are any indication. Oh, and a bonus fact: You have no business asking this question. At least when it comes to the mighty Jennifer Lopez, who just recently birthed a set of twins.
"The viewer question about Jen Lopez is too personal," the actress's publicist scolded to this B!tch today. "She will tell the world their names when she is ready."
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Amanda Peet are two other celebrities who initially released birth announcements without names attached—also, perhaps, because of the grueling preparation that apparently goes in to uttering such a detail. Sarah Jessica Parker's delay in announcing the name of son James, born in 2002, led some outlets to erroneously report that the child was named David.
Another window into this behavior came a few weeks after the birth of Britney Spears' second son, Jayden James, whose name was not immediately announced after his birth. Then husband Kevin Federline explained it all in a pissy interview with MTV reporters.
"Everybody's been asking me the name and wanting me to verify and all that stuff, and it becomes a little bit tiring," Federline bitched. "If everyone knows everything about you and what you're doing all the time, you don't have any piece of private to yourself, and that was one thing we wanted to keep for us, for right now. It's our child."
Oh, and one other possible reason, too:
"Maybe," top publicist Michael Levine says, "they want to tell their family first."
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