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After trying to keep it secret, Grimes reveals she has a new baby with Elon Musk

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March 10, 2022

After trying to keep it secret, Grimes reveals she has a new baby with Elon Musk

It’s an excellent factor infants are exhausting to cover, or the world may not know that Grimes and Elon Musk have a brand new child collectively, welcomed by way of surrogate.

The little lady, born in December and referred to as “Y” by her mother, raised her voice throughout a latest interview with Self-importance Truthful, and the key was out. However Y is a nickname: Her full title is Exa Darkish Sideræl Musk.

Grimes, 30, was hanging out with a reporter at her new dwelling in Austin, Texas, speaking about music, when the toddler made her presence vocally recognized. However the pop musician wasn’t giving up the reality with out a push.

“I’m not at liberty to talk on this stuff,” she stated initially after the reporter quizzed her concerning the supply of the crying coming from upstairs. Grimes had already stated that her and Musk’s little boy — born X Æ A-12 in Could 2020 after which legally renamed X Æ A-Xii, due to California legislation — was hanging along with his Tesla-founder father till the following day.

“No matter is occurring with household stuff, I simply really feel like children want to remain out of it, and X is simply on the market,” Grimes stated. “I imply, I feel E is actually seeing him as a protégé and bringing him to the whole lot and stuff .… X is on the market. His state of affairs is like that. However, yeah, I don’t know.”

Then the newborn screamed once more, for actual, and there was no denying her existence.

“She’s a bit colicky too,” the singer stated, laughing after making an attempt to maintain the child a secret. “I don’t know. I don’t know what I used to be pondering.”

The brand new child was born by way of surrogate after Grimes had a tough being pregnant with X, even hemorrhaging at one level.

“He was urgent on my nerves, so I saved collapsing,” she instructed the journal. “I took just a few steps and collapsed. It was form of scary, since you don’t wish to fall loads if you’re eight months pregnant. So I’d simply crawl to the lavatory and crawl again or no matter.”

So surrogacy was the ticket for the couple, who apparently need one other little one or two along with X and Y.

Musk, 50, stated again in September that he and Grimes had been “semi-separated however nonetheless love one another, see one another often and are on nice phrases,” pulled aside by geography and the calls for of their careers, to not point out the pandemic.

Now it appears that evidently they’re each residing in Austin, albeit in separate houses. They’re finest associates and have their very own factor occurring, Grimes stated. “I’d in all probability check with him as my boyfriend, however we’re very fluid,” she stated.

In the meantime, the performer instructed Self-importance Truthful, “We transfer and transfer and transfer, as a result of folks maintain discovering the place we stay.”

Possibly of us maintain listening to that child?

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Movie Review | Bleakness of Iceland adds to horror tale

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January 5, 2025

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Movie Review | Bleakness of Iceland adds to horror tale

Despite the so-so storytelling, the work here by Palsson piques your interest as to what the native Icelander will make in the future.

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Golden Globes 2025: The best red carpet fashion

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January 5, 2025

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Golden Globes 2025: The best red carpet fashion

Arrivals are underway at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, and The Times’ photo team is out in force on the red carpet (and beyond). Whether you’re following along live in the lead-up to Sunday’s telecast, hosted by Nikki Glaser, or bookmarking our gallery to peruse over coffee Monday morning, we have the full rundown of the evening’s best fashions below. Happy browsing!

Mindy Kaling.

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The Girl with the Needle (2024) – Movie Review

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January 5, 2025

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The Girl with the Needle, 2024.

Directed by Magnus von Horn
Starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ari Alexander, Per Thiim Thim, Joachim Fjelstrup, Ava Knox Martin

SYNOPSIS:

Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.

A fairytale retelling of one of Denmark’s most shocking crime cases, The Girl with the Needle blends dreamlike expressionism with an earthly realism that conveys emotional intensity at its most raw.

The film traces the terrible experiences of Karoline (a fantastic Vic Carmen Sonne), an unemployed, single, pregnant woman in post-World War One Denmark. Her husband went missing during the war and she has had no word. With her emotional and mental fragility already stretched to the point of breaking, she finds herself without a job. An unhappy tryst with a manipulative and emotionally immature man leaves her pregnant with no support and little hope of improving her situation.

Into this bleak environment steps a beacon of hope in the shape of Dagmar (Trine Dyrholm), a charming woman who organises an underground adoption agency that helps mothers in trouble find foster homes for children who are either unwanted or unable to be taken care of.

Karoline and Dagmar form a strong bond, and the young mother takes on the role as a wet-nurse at the agency. However, all is not what it seems. Beneath her charismatic veneer, Dagmar holds a horrifying secret. When Karoline stumbles upon this secret, her entire world, and that of Copenhagen society as a whole, is completely turned upside down.

Things are complicated even further when a disfigured man claiming to be Karoline’s lost husband shows up on the streets looking for his wife.

This element delves deep into the stylistic inspiration for the look of this gripping and grim tale. The soldier has had half of his face destroyed and has been given a mask to wear that conjures up ideas of opera phantoms and classical villains. As it is, the man is kind and considerate, in stark contrast to the handsome rich young character whom Karoline had a brief dalliance with. The wounded soldier is forced to join a travelling circus as a living exhibit, and Karoline out of sheer desperation takes a needle to herself in a public bathhouse in attempted termination.

It is here that she meets Dagmar and from there, the story becomes even more horrible. Based on a true story and embellished with nightmarish but wholly believable touches, The Girl With the Needle is an immersive and uncomfortable viewing experience. Scenes are artistically framed, and the whole production is touched with morbid curiosity and fear-fueled adrenaline. Both leads are excellent in their respective roles with the fictionalised character of Karoline given personality and furious life by Carmen Sonne.

The backstory of the true character of Dagmar is necessarily kept out of the script, meaning that Dyrholm must subtly bring out the ambiguities and strangeness of her spirit in subtle and skilled ways. She succeeds brilliantly, and thanks to it, the film takes on a haunting and monstrous quality that lingers on long after the credits roll.

Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★ ★

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