Elon Musk and Grimes have secretly welcomed their second child together, a baby girl, via surrogate, and despite publicly splitting, are still together-ish, Grimes told Vanity Fair. The baby joins big
brother X Æ A-Xii.
Vanity Fair learned of the second baby when its reporter was at Grimes’s house and kept hearing a baby crying. When asked if she has another child, Grimes initially responded, “I’m not at liberty to speak on these things. Whatever is going on with family stuff, I just feel like kids need to stay out of it, and [our son] X is just out there. I mean, I think E[lon] is really seeing him as a protégé and bringing him to everything and stuff.… X is out there. His situation is like that. But, yeah, I don’t know.”
Eventually, Grimes confirmed that baby crying was their new daughter. Grimes shared her nickname: Y. “She’s a little colicky too,” Grimes said. Y was born in December 2021. Her full name, currently, is Exa Dark Sideræl.
Grimes and Musk plan on having at least one or two more children together. “We’ve always wanted at least three or four.”
The couple's use of a surrogate came from Grimes fearing serious pregnancy complications after having trouble with her first pregnancy with X. She had trouble walking during the last month: “He was pressing on my nerves, so I kept collapsing,” she said. “I took a few steps and collapsed. It was kind of scary, because you don’t want to fall a lot when you’re eight months pregnant. So I would just crawl to the bathroom and crawl back or whatever.” She added she thought she was dying at one point while expecting him: “Like, I hemorrhaged. It was scary.”
As for her relationship status with Musk, it’s on, but also very different from traditional couples. “There’s no real word for it,” Grimes told the outlet of their relationship. “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time…. We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.”
She added that they’re happy. “This is the best it’s ever been.... We just need to be free.”