Celebrating Celebrity Baby Birthdays – Kingston James McGregor Rossdale
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Birthday: May 27th, 2006
Famous for: Being the very much wanted and awaited (yet still a surprise!) first child of rockers Gwen Stefani and husband Gavin Rossdale. Gwen expressed her desire to have children for a long time, even writing the song Simple Kind of Life; describing her desire and thoughts on Gavin as a future father
Siblings: A half-sister, Daisy Lowe, 18, fathered by Gavin Rossdale, who believed Daisy was his god-daughter, not his actual daughter, until late 2004, when a DNA test proved otherwise. This is the one topic on which Gwen refuses to speak in interviews.
The couple have constantly expressed their desire to have more children. Gwen has said that all she wants to do is have babies and make music.
I pray that I can have another baby. I mean, it’s such a miracle to have one. And there’s so much I still want to do, because who knows? Things could be a lot harder a few years from now. I mean, I’m not at the beginning of my career. I’m on a ticking clock. And I don’t want to miss anything.
Being part of the celeb baby boom: Gwen shares that it was surreal to be part of the celeb baby boom that took place in spring 2006 — Angelina Jolie, Katie Holmes, Brooke Shields, Gwyneth Paltrow, and herself were all expecting babies in April and May.
I have to say, people were more interested in me having a baby, thanany record or anything I’ve ever done in my whole entire life. I was inthe celebrity baby boom! That was weird. It’s not like we called eachother and said, ‘OK, we’re going to have sex now and have a baby.’ Itwas almost embarrassing. ‘Oh my God, that person is having a baby now,too?’
Birth Story: Gwen had planned to give birth to Kingston naturally, however due to Kingston being in breech position, Gwen had a cesarean section. Read more about the rumor here.
Names: McGregor is Gavin’s middle name. Gwen explains their choice of Kingston:
You know, we had that name…when No Doubt went to Jamaica to dothe Rock Steady album, I said to Gavin, ‘Wouldn’t that be cool if wenamed our kid Kingston?’ and he was all, ‘Shh, don’t tell anyone thename! It’s our secret name!’ and we ended up buying this little rastahat when we were there, like a little baby one, and everytime we wouldget in a fight the rasta hat would come out, on the bed, like ‘It’sgoing back to London!’ or something. So for like six years we had thisthing.
Then when I got pregnant, we didn’t find out if I was having aboy or a girl – and it ended up being a boy, and we named him Kingston,and he wore the rasta hat home from the hospital!
What they said:
Kingston’s entourage!
There’s this huge team of us always hanging out together, so he gets to see the same people every day. And he’s this very cool, chilled-out little guy. He’s just like another person, except that he’s super-cute and super-entertaining.
Losing the pregnancy weight and nursing.
That was one of the hardest things for me. The pressure of, ‘OK, I need to get into shape so that I can put this record out.’ If I didn’t have that pressure, I don’t think I would have gotten the baby weight off so quickly. [Also] I’m still nursing and I think it gives you superhuman powers.
Pictures:
Click here for photos from his party earlier today. Kingston’s even wearing a party hat! Also, new pics from this morning, with his hair combed down — Just Jared has more.
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