Ha, on Wednesday I was reading this story at Life & Style about Scarlett Johansson shopping for blue baby clothes and the L&S tea-leave-readers claimed that she was totally having a boy. Not so much! Scarlett Johansson and her no-socks-wearing French lover Romain Dauriac have welcomed a baby girl. The little girl already has a name too: ROSE. Rose Dorothy Johansson-Dauriac? Or just Rose Dauriac? Hm.
It’s a girl! Scarlett Johansson and fiancé Romain Dauriac have welcomed their first child, her rep confirms to PEOPLE.
Daughter Rose Dorothy was born in New York City. The baby’s middle name is an homage to Johansson’s grandmother, whom she called “the first Francophone in my family” while accepting her honorary César in Paris last February.
“Mother and daughter are doing well,” publicist Marcel Pariseau tells the Associated Press in a statement.
Further information is not being released at this time.
The actress has had plenty to celebrate in her personal life lately, including an engagement that came six months before PEOPLE confirmed in March that the couple were expecting a baby.
“I’m very happy. Being engaged is an exciting time to enjoy and really savor,” Johansson, 29, has said of Dauriac, a French journalist.
While never addressing the pregnancy, the mom-to-be let her baby belly do the talking, debuting her bump days after the news broke and, more recently, while stepping out for ice cream with Dauriac in New York City.
[From People]
Yes, that’s another interesting piece of information – despite Scarlett saying over and over that she was going to live in Paris and she and Romain were so happy in Paris and all of that, they decamped to Manhattan and the Hamptons for most of the summer and Scarlett totally gave birth in New York. So, Rose will have American citizenship from the start (the baby would have been eligible for American citizenship even if Scarlett had given birth in France, it just would have taken more time to get through the paperwork). How does France determine citizenship? Romain is a French citizen, so presumably Rose could have dual citizenship?
As for the name… it’s pretty. I tend to think “Rose” is more a middle name, just because it sounds good attached to so many longer names. Like, Elizabeth Rose, Isabel Rose, Catherine Rose, Madelyn Rose, you get the idea. It’s old-fashioned but classic. And it’s the same in English and French too, which is probably why they chose it. I understand the choice of Dorothy to honor a family member – I have a few “Dorothy” ladies in my family too. My favorite is when a Dorothy is called “Dot”. I think that’s so cute.
PS… I totally lost a bet with myself about ScarJo versus Ryan Reynolds. I can’t believe Scarlett had a baby before Ryan!!
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