The couple also later learned the name had a lovely family connection.
Chrissy Teigen has shared the endearing story behind choosing the name Esti for her baby. The 37-year-old cookbook author, during an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, talked about how she and her 44-year-old husband, John Legend, decided on the name for their 10-week-old daughter while they were traveling through Europe, per PEOPLE.
"We were on vacation where we got married in Italy and I was looking up at the hotel and I kept seeing the Este of it, and then I was like I love the name Este," said Teigen, who had tied the knot with her husband Legend in Lake Como in September 2013.
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She continued, "I was just playing around with it and then we came up with Esti," before revealing the couple later learned the name had a lovely family connection. "John, after we named her Esti, learned that it was actually his great-grandmother's name," Teigen explained. "I guess maybe it was Esther and then they turned it to Esti."
On January 13, Esti was delivered by C-section, with Legend revealing the news during a private performance. Esti's second name, Maxine, also has a family link, dad Legend previously revealed in an interview. "We wanted to already name her middle name Maxine after my grandmother, whose middle name was Maxine. So, it's a lot of my family in the name," he told E! News.
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When discussing how their older children, son Miles Theodore, 4, and daughter Luna Simone, 7, have adapted to having the newborn around the home, author Teigen called their infant "such a light and a joy." She explained, "It's weird because I thought they would either be very mad at her for just existing or they would want so much attention from me." She continued, "But they actually love her so much and they want so much attention from me. So, it's both. It has a lot to do with her, obviously, but they still shower her with love, every bath in the sink, they crowd around."
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Teigen added that Miles is also smothering his little sister in kisses. "Miles in this crazy kissing phase where he's kind of practicing a little bit on everything," she said. Clarkson laughed and shared that her older daughter did the same thing when she gave birth to her second child. "Miles it's like six in the morning, I feel the kisses and he thinks I'm asleep and it's so cute. He'll do my top lip and bottom lip and then with Esti he's like, 'Ahh!' all in. He loves it, he's so affectionate," the proud mom shared of her son.
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d32-TFAj7I
https://people.com/parents/chrissy-teigen-inspiration-daughter-esti-name/
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