Strange names for babies with celebrity parents – Part 1

It’s a given. If you happen to be a celebrity, you have to come up with a really strange and unique name for your baby-something that no one in the universe (or at least in Hollywood) has ever come up with before! We hear a lot of hype about Apple and Coco-Gwyneth and Courteney’s baby name choices-but let me tell you, they don’t hold a candle to many that we just don’t happen to hear as much media publicity about.

It isn’t a new trend, this game of whacky names for celebrity kids. Some grown-up celeb kids have unusual names. Just look at Cher’s two, Chastity and Elijah Blue. While they may seem a bit mild compared to today’s no-holes-barred standards, I remember how everyone reacted when she chose those names way back when. And then there’s David Carradine and Barbara Hershey’s son, Free. That’s right. Simply “Free”. Sounds like they were smoking pot when they named him, doesn’t it? Very hippy-ish. Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook named their daughter Sailor Lee, which I actually think is rather cute and half-way “normal”.

Nick Nolte named his son Brawley. Is this a name he really expects the kid to live up to? Let’s hope not. If I were Julia Roberts kid, I’d hate her for naming me Hazel Patricia or Phinnaeus Walter. Really now-couldn’t she have done a little better than that? Jon Travolta loves planes and things, so named his son Jet. Isn’t it interesting how celebs love to name their children after objects of their affection? Maybe Gwyneth Paltrow just really has a fetish for big juicy red apples. Courteney Cox Arquette, on the other hand, must be a little stuck on herself. Coco is actually the first two letters of her own first and last maiden name. Think about it-C-o and C-o.

This writer found these names to the the most off-the-wall of any I came across:

(1) Kal-el (which is actually Superman’s birth name). This was the name choice of Nick Cage and Alice Kim for their son.

(2) The Willis girls (daughters of Bruce and Demi) make the list with Rumor, Scout and Tallulah Belle.

(3) Casey Afflect and Summer Phoenix named their child Indiana August, which you have to admit is rather beautiful. It grows on you. Just hope it’s a girl. Indiana Jones sounds more masculine than Indiana August does.

(4) Actor Ving Rhames named his son Freedom (is he related to David Carradine or Barbara Hershey?) and his daughter Reinbeau. Did he just not know how to spell rainbow?

(5) Helen Hunt named her daughter Makena’le Gordon,

Are celebrity adoptions helping or hurting international adoption relations?

Celebrity adoptions cannot possibly be a guarantee to the child’s continued welfare. Adoption in general has its backwardness. First of all, it is a loving idea for anyone to want to share their home with a kid that is not theirs. However, it does not seal nor bind and it has no guarantees. The child can turn away, the one who adopted the child, might seize to be a regular celebrity and might become needy themselves.

Helping children generally in ‘children homes’ might be more suitable so that more kids can gain from the welfare and assistance given by others.

Celebrity adoptions might just be the start of more problems for example a celebrity actress who had previously made films might suddenly find that she cannot afford the lavish lifestyle that she used to have during the time she adopted. That would probably mean that she would be creating an International embarrassment when the kid or kids that she took up have to be returned.

A celebrity should concentrate on their own families and when they can, give to others. A celebrity should prepare for their own children’s future so that the celebrity kids can grow up to give from their surplus to others and not try to take up a burden that is not theirs.

It is hard enough to take care of one’s own kids!

Taking up the kids of another leads to resentment, blackmailing, jealousy and discontentment so that sometimes the kids adopted end up resenting. The kids that have been raised in proper adoption homes tend to fair better in later life because they have been able to accept the reality and facts in life and of life and would be able to face the world realistically.

A child adopted by a Celebrity is being given a world that is unreal, thinking that it might last out but sometimes, never does. The adopted child can never really accept parents that are not his or hers. It is a fantasy to believe that when lots of money and power is showered on the child of another, they would come to love you especially when you need them the most.

The possibility is realistically nil.

A child left in the adopted home is more likely to be able to accept the fact that his or her parents left them in the care of a home for whatever reasons that they did. This child wants his or her parents to want them and the last thing they would need, is a celebrity robbing it unwittingly on them that no one ‘but them’ can love them. This should create even more strain and possibly quiet hate and great resentment.

It is unnatural and the best a celebrity can do, is give adopted kids as a ‘multitude’, plenty of gifts and comfort and they [celebrity] would find that it is best to give in unlimited ways than in restrictive ways.

It is best to avoid unwanted attention thus using it where the need is much greater by building schools for them, building welfare communities for them, providing medicine, water and food for them. They don’t quite need a specific name to be tied to, all they need is a survival kit and then, should be able to make their own names themselves from the schools and education that people in general provide for them [adopted kids].