Cate Blanchett and Jack White Agree the World Needs More Kids
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INFClearing up any ideas that her 6-month-old son Ignatius ‘Iggy’ Martin was named after the rocker Iggy Pop, actress Cate Blanchett tells fellow parent and The White Stripes singer Jack White that her baby boy’s "very Catholic" name is actually in honor of Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. However, while Iggy’s name follows the old-age feel of that of his two brothers — Dashiell John, 7, and Roman Robert, 4 ½ — Cate laughs that in appearances they are quite different as baby Iggy has begun to acquire a "little red fringe" of hair!
As Jack, who has daughter Scarlett Teresa, 2 ½, and son Henry Lee, 16 months, explains to Cate the close bond that has formed between the two siblings — "they’re holding each other’s hands right now" — the adults come to an agreement that, despite the world being overcrowded, more children are needed! After all, jokes the 33-year-old singer, "you can always give them away if they don’t work out." While Cate laughs that "redheads" would be good candidates to give away, the pair come to the realization that both of them are parents to little carrot tops! "We’ll keep those, yeah," notes Jack. However, to savor each moment, which never "last long enough," Cate is insistent that the two need to expand their families even further.
"That’s why we just have to have more of them. The world is so massively overpopulated, but if you’re halfway decent-looking and you make nice ones, then I think it’s probably your responsibility to make more."
Dashiell, Roman, and Iggy are Cate’s children with husband Andrew Upton, while Scarlett and Henry are Jack’s children with wife Karen Elson.
Source: Interview Magazine
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