Even though I think this story is possibly/probably BS, it’s getting a lot of coverage and though it pains me to admit it, In Touch Weekly might have a real source who is really spilling the dirt. According to ITW‘s source, Jessica Simpson is naming her 10-pound baby girl… Maxwell. Jess and Eric will nickname her “Maxi”. Maxi Johnson. Maxi pad joke, etc.
Choosing a baby name can be tricky, so it’s no surprise that Jessica Simpson and fiancé Eric Johnson were, until recently, at an impasse about what to call their soon-to-be born daughter. “They tossed around a lot of names, including some wacky ones like Zinfandel, but couldn’t agree on anything,” a family friend confides.
Now, the pair has come to an understanding, and In Touch — which was first to break the news both of Jessica’s pregnancy and of the baby’s sex — can exclusively reveal the unusual (for a girl) moniker. “They’re going to call her Maxwell, Maxi for short,” the friend says. Maxwell is Eric’s middle name, and also his beloved grandma’s maiden name. “Jessica wanted a name with meaning.”
And not only has Jessica’s been seen wearing a necklace with a diamond “M” pendant in honor of her little bundle of joy, the couple also already ordered onesies monogrammed with the name! Jessica, 31, is now set to give birth on April 20, three weeks earlier than her original due date.
“She’s gained so much weight and the baby is so big that doctors pushed up the date,” reveals her friend. And while the thought of giving birth freaks her out, “Jessica and Eric are so eager to meet Maxwell!”
[From In Touch Weekly]
LMAO at “Zinfandel”. I can just see Jessica, sober for the first time in years, saying, “How about… Scotch? How about Jack Daniel? Whiskey is a cute name, y’all! Scotch Johnson. We should do that! Or White Russian Johnson! How about Merlot?”
I have to admit, though, I usually loves boys’ names for girls. My Indian name is a very common boys’ name (in India), and I love it when a girl has a really fancy name but she shortens it to something boyish. Like “Charlotte” becomes “Charlie” or “Samantha” becomes “Sam”. I always like that. But Maxwell into Maxi? No.
What could be some of the other “M” names if Jessica really is wearing an “M” pendant, though? Maxine. Meric (“M” plus Eric). Meredith. Messica. Marguerite. OMG, it’s Margarita, isn’t it? OMG. I figured it out. Margarita Tequila Johnson.
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I love your guess “Messica”!!! LOL! And damn, April 20th is weeks before her due date?! Poor, poor Jessica. I don’t think I’ve ever actively pitied a pregnant woman before, but Jessica just seems so huge and uncomfortable.
edit: Also, is it bad that I think “Merlot” wouldn’t be a bad name? Also, did I just out myself as a total wino?
When I saw Merlot I first thought Sam Merlott from True Blood, then wine. So clearly I’m a sci-fi nerd with a touch of wino in her 😉
Yes. Sexy Sam Merlott!
My golden doodle is called Merlot … Along with his cocker spaniel companion Pinot!!!
Aw! The MAXI-PAD Simpson! Hope she comes with lots of absorbent power…LMAO!!!!
As long as the middle name isn’t Pad (ugh….sorry).
Lol 🙂
OMG. Immediately thought “pad” when I saw the name.
Well “M” is for MONEY!
Eric Johnson will want to call his new daughter, Money Johnson!
Nope, it’s Maxi-pad Money absorbent Johnson…or his “anchor baby” if you will…LOL…to anchor him to half of Blimpson’s fortune when they break up.
4-20… Marijuana Johnson
Well, since the baby is rumored to be 10 pounds, it is a maxi-baby.
I agree – Maxwell into Maxi? Yuck. Maxine would be nice, or just call her Maxi, but Maxwell? Sorry, that isn’t even a cute boys’ name for a girl imo.
I read her saying in an interview that when we heard the name we’d “get it” but if it’s Maxwell I don’t get it. Maxi Johnson? Are they trying to say her fiance’s “johnson” is big and that’s why she loves him? Who knows with Jessica and the way her mind works! LOL
cmc – Merlot is way nicer than Maxwell (and makes more sense imo)
10 pounds? Yikes her lady parts will never be the same.
“They tossed around a lot of names, including some wacky ones like Zinfandel.”
This is, hopefully, satire.
I think she mentioned Merlot as a pretty babyname in a discussion with Nick Lachey in Newlyweds…
Jessica said the name would be obvious. We knew more about K-Fed than we do about this has been football player.
I forgot his last name was even Johnson. Nothing about him is obvious. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page so we were to know his middle name is Maxwell?
Baby is going to be a Chubette. Good God! Back away from the PopTarts
Re: Baby is going to be a Chubette.
Several years ago, I worked with two ladies who were pregnant at the same time. One of them hardly looked pregnant, it was as if she had a mini- basketball tucked under her shirt, and the other gained an excess amount of baby weight. The babies were born within days of each other, and the one who’s mom gained so much weight weighed slightly over 5 lbs. The girl with the mini-basketball bump? Her baby was nearly a 10 pounder.
Therefore, I am totally expecting little Maxi Merlot to be tiny, just for the sake of ridiculousness.
That could be. I’ve always heard people saying how fat women usually have the small weighted babies. the 5-6lbs ones and normal sized women have the 8-10lbs. Fat as in she’s naturally 200lbs and over.
Jessica is eating so much though this baby is definitely chowing down and getting huge.
Ugh. Maxwell for a girl?
Comes to mind:
Maxwell Smart
Maxipad
Maxi – the kid is fat
Plus Maxi Johnson… sounds like a big johnson if you get my drift.
YOUR REAL NAME ISN’T KAISER?!?!?
I feel so duped! All that I thought was real in this world…
just kidding. I totally knew that it wasn’t your real name. I want another thread of where people guess your real name.
Maxime Amberville was the heroine of a best selling novel in the 80s. They called her Maxi, but I doubt Jessica knows that. My kids have fairly unusual names- I am a bibliophile- but nothing that makes people say, “WHAT?” Jessica seems like someone who loves names that end in “i” (dotted with a heart): Traci, Kelli, Staci. Why torture a kid with a boy’s name when she’s a girl? I hate people who give their kids stupid names like Peanut or Banjo and don’t think about long term consequences for the child.
I can’t say for Peanut, but there actually is a celebrity child named Banjo.
If you hate children, why have them?
Banjo is not all that unusual. There is a famous Australian poet named Banjo Paterson.
I think Banjo is pretty unusual even in Australia. ‘Banjo’ Patterson’s name was Andrew Barton he just used Banjo as a pseudonym when he wrote. I think it was actually his horse’s name.
stop complaining it’s to honor Eric who’s middle name is Maxwell and Maxi is a common diminutive form of Maxwell Maximillian and Maxism for boys and Maxine for girls. a 10lb baby isn’t uncommon April 20th is 3 weeks ahead of Jessica’s original due date may 11th which also would’ve been Natasha Richardson’s 49th birthday. first time moms often gain more than the recomended 35lbs nor are they the first celebs to name their daughter Maxwell recently Lindsay Sloane and her husband Dar Rollins named their daughter Maxwell Lue back in January now their Maxwell would/will share a birthday with two daughters of fellow former oscar winners those in Olivia Dahl and Claire Newman born April 20th 1955 d November 17th 1962 and born April 21st 1965 infact I believe Claire’s parents chose Olivia as her middle name to honor Dahl’s memory as they were dear friends of her mother Patricia Neal
There’s really no good way to estimate birth weight in advance, so if Jess is saying the baby will be 10 lbs., that’s just a guess, and probably not a very good one. When I had my first, my OB underestimated the weight (just hours before birth) by 1.5 lbs. There’s NO WAY she knows she’s having a 10 lb. baby this far in advance, she’s just trying to explain away her size. Frankly, she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation.
Exactly. Ultrasounds can be +/- 2 pounds. I know several women who had c-sections or were induced because the doc told them their babies were much larger than they actually were. I also know a woman who’s baby was estimated to be 13 lbs but was only 10, she was so happy, lol!
I don’t really care for boy names for girls. For many reasons. One of the main ones is that girl names are rarely, if ever, used for girls. Why? because the masculine form is “superior” — or something like that.
I’m from South Carolina & one of the senators is Lindsey Graham. & I went to high school with a guy named Shannon…
I know an Ashley and a Loren that are boys.
There is an Ashley in Gone With the Wind 🙂
Leslie Nielsen. Mandy Patinkin. John Wayne’s real name was Marion…and that’s all I got.
Fellow Southerner. My grandfather’s name was “Beverly” and my middle name is the same as my father’s.
Holy crap! I am due May 18th, just one week later than Jess’s original due date, and I look like I should be giving birth months later. I know all women carry differently, and I am not going to join the judgy, preachy Jess-is-fat haters, I realize I’m carrying small and probably could (should) be gaining more weight, but that is just crazy!
Great due date! 🙂
If you’re on time, your kid and I will share a birthday. Name her after me, okay? 😉
Sometimes I wonder if Courtney is even a real human or just some wackadoo joke that celebitchy plays on us commenters…
Anyhoo! I like the idea of honoring his Mother’s maiden name. I think calling her Max – not Maxi – would be cute.
I also wonder if perhaps her doctors moved her due date because she was pregnant much earlier than she realized she was, so conception date was skewed from the get go. I have a friend who was this big pregnant also, just the way she carried. Her baby wasnt terribly big.
LoL.
I don’t know, she is all about this baby girl being girlie…I have a hard time thinking she will give it a masculine name.
She should go with “Whiskey”. That sounds rather girlie. haha
My best friend is named Margaret because a series of margaritas led her (then-separated) parents to sleep together one last time and conceive her.
…she prefers to go by Meg.
Best story ever.
Blue Ivy, Bronx Mowgli, Apple, etc. Yeah, Maxi seems pretty cute.
I’ve known a Maxie before and she seemed fine. Kids make fun of every name, its hard to get away from that. And I appreciate that its at least meaningful to them.
Although like someone stated she seems to be all about the girlie girl so naming her baby a boys name seems odd. But I think I believe this name.
Come on! The playground nastiness of being named Maxi will be relentless. Esp if she’s a chunk.
Merlic XD
Ridiculous if true. Then again I wouldn’t expect much less from this chick.
I think that recent BI about a pregnant celeb is definitely about her and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it was all true as well.
I recall all the hoopla that went around when we found out Apple’s next big thing was called an “iPad”–the obvious jokes seemed nonstop at first but died down when we all got used to hearing and saying it. This girl will probably catch hell on every first day of school (or not, since she’ll be filthy rich), but the other kids will eventually leave her alone. *wishful thinking*
I didn’t even know what a maxi pad was when I was in grade school. Even when I started using them, I just knew them as “pads.” I also didn’t know that maxi was short for maximum when I was younger, and I doubt many kids do. I don’t think her name will cause her as much grief as everyone thinks.
I got a little bit of crap in school for being named Ryan, but mostly kids were just curious as to why I was given a boy’s name. My standard response? “Ask my mom.” & that was usually the end of it. I love my name now, though.
Ryan is a nice name for a girl. It’s close to Rhiannon, if you’re into mythology or Fleetwood Mac.
Maxwell for a girl? NO! It’s certainly not southern Jess! I’m from Georgia, born and bred. We have NO girl Maxwell’s! Wtf? All those fat molecules have clogged up ur brain! Get with the program woman.
Potential baby name horrors: My brother and I were almost called Damien and Bernadette. I think someone reminded my mom of The Omen, and she changed her mind quickly. (He was born in 1979)
Bernadette would have been after a relative, Bernard, but I could not imagine going by Bernie. I would have ended up sharing a name with a Paul Simon song, on the bright side.
Another actress just named their baby girl maxwell. saw it on people.com’s celeb babies website.
lindsey sloane.
Wasen’t Maxie a General Hospital charecter?
maxine sounds better than maxi
I agree.
Please. We must stop her from setting her daughter up for feminine hygiene jokes for the rest of her life.
DON’T DO IT, J!
If she must name the girl with what is usually a male name, then “Max” for short is just fine. Cool and tough sounding, in fact. (Max was always on my list of boy baby names.)
Max is cute, actually. I don’t like Maxi.
Pretty sad for her offspring to have the MOM in the birth album naked.
Simply absurd.