
So I would just crawl to the bathroom and crawl back or whatever.” At one point during the pregnancy, she thought she was dying. It was kind of scary, because you don’t want to fall a lot when you’re eight months pregnant. “He was pressing on my nerves, so I kept collapsing,” she says.

The last month of her pregnancy with X, she couldn’t walk. Grimes, meanwhile, used to get called “waifish” so often in profiles that she railed against it in a viral 2013 Tumblr post. “I was like, ‘I feel like he’s going to be a peaceful giant.’ ” She was right. When Grimes was pregnant with X in 2020, she had a clear sense of the boy he’d turn out to be. I don’t know what I was thinking.”Ĭongratulations to Grimes and Elon Musk on the birth of their second child together! It’s a girl! “She’s a little colicky too.” She laughs again and buries her face in her hands. Now we both start laughing.ĭid she really think I wasn’t going to hear a baby? It’s a calming period that breaks with a sitcom punch line: full-blown infant screams upstairs, followed by the voice of a woman pleading SHH. I suggest we pause for a moment to discuss the surreal professional ethics at play, which are that I can’t pretend I don’t know she’s got a secret baby with the world’s wealthiest man hiding upstairs. She’s rattled, and I’m mortified by even accidentally making a woman-a new mother, no less-feel exposed and vulnerable.
