Rumer Willis and boyfriend Derek Thomas have welcomed a daughter, Louetta Isley Thomas Willis. Lou-Lou, which is my nickname for her, no idea what the family is calling her, was born on April 18, 2023. And we got a full-face photo!
Oh, she is adorable. As the announcement said, she was born at home, which is what Rumer had hoped for so I’m glad she was able to have that. I like the name Louetta, but then I love all kid names. I’m the easiest baby-name person. I just assume there’s a meaning behind it and give them all a thumbs-up. Anyway, Louetta sounds like someone who isn’t going to take any guff. Plus it’s in keeping with the off-beat nature of the Willis family, something Rumer said she’d consider in the naming of her baby. Isley might be a musical reference (Isley Brothers?) or maybe a family name. I love the maternal surname, let’s see more of that.
This is all the information we have for right now. I like that they took a week before announcing the birth to give them some family time. I love that they let us see little Loulie’s (I’m still workshopping) face. I know there are plenty of Willis women adoring this newest addition, she’s very lucky. I wonder if the Willis family is going to be the feminine version of that Michigan family that only had boys for 138 years. Bruce Willis’ legacy will be this powerful line of Willis Women for over a century. He’d love it, I truly believe that.
If Rumer Willis is a mom, that means Demi Moore is a grandma. And that sentence just made most of Gen X look up from their coffee and go, “What?!” Anyway, congratulations to Rumer, Derek and everyone else. What a neat time for them all.
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Happy for all of them. That little muffin is going to be so adored by a constant village of loving aunts, grandparents and, of course, her over-the-moon parents. Every child deserves what Lucky Louetta will have on that score.
Nice to see this morning! We have a great-niece Louella and she’s just called Lou 💗
Very, very sweet. Congratulations to them and their families.
As someone with an unusual name, I also find I’m very forgiving with off the wall baby names. All the handwringing about life being more difficult has never rang true for me so I tend to hope the kids will all be just fine even, Apple, Pilot, North etc.
Louetta is extremely cute and I adore the idea of generations of wild Willis women from Bruce and Demi, they seem like good people.
Is it just me or does she look a bit like Bruce?!
That little peanut is adorable!
That is one adorable baby 🫶 Congrats to the family!
my guess is that the first name is just continuing on the family name theme of the u/oo sound convention that Demi loved so much she employed it when naming all 3 of her kids:
Rumer Glenn
Scout LaRue
Talulah Belle
Heaven
Congratulations 🎉 family!! Welcome baby Louetta!!
Lovely 💗
Congrats to all! Beautiful baby. I like that Rumer didn’t make a BFD about not showing the baby’s face or not telling its name and gender. Not that she owes it to us, but it’s nice. The celebrities who do withhold this info (Kourtney, Kylie, Behati Prinsloo and Blake Lively, for example) do it not for privacy reasons, IMO, but for publicity reasons, to do a big reveal later on and to generate buzz. Kourtney finally showed her new baby’s face (whom we did know was a boy), but is still teasing the name, only saying it begins with a T (Tristan, Jr.?). Will the name be revealed on their show? I’m sure it will be.
I don’t think Blake Lively ever does a big name reveal. And she never shows off her kids.