John Legend‘s new child child’s identify turned out to be a contented coincidence.
The “All of Me” singer and spouse Chrissy Teigen welcomed their third youngster, daughter Esti Maxine Stephens, on Jan. 13. And although John completely advised E! Information correspondent Courtney Lopez that the identify was Chrissy’s thought, it ended up having a stunning household connection.
As he revealed on the Feb. 1 episode of E! Information (airing tonight at 11 p.m.), “It seems, my great-grandmother was named Esther.”
“It wasn’t deliberately after somebody,” John defined, “however as soon as Chrissy advised me that concept, I used to be like, ‘Oh, my great-grandmother’s identify was Esther.’”
Esti’s center identify additionally shares ties to a different one in every of John’s family. “We wished to already identify her center identify Maxine after my grandmother, whose center identify was Maxine,” the 44-year-old shared. “So, it is a number of my household within the identify.”
John and Chrissy—who additionally share daughter Luna, 6, and son Miles, 4—introduced they had been anticipating child No. 3 in August 2022, two years after Chrissy skilled a being pregnant loss in October 2021.
