Sia secretly welcomes third child with bizarre acrobatic name
'Are her other kids named backflip and barrel role?'
Sia secretly welcomed a baby with her estranged husband, Dan Bernad, a year ago.
The Chandelier singer, 49, quietly had her third child, her first with Dan Bernad, 11 months ago, according to divorce documents.
Sia has filed to divorce Bernad, with whom she has reportedly been separated for some time.
The pair tied the knot in Portofino, Italy, May 2023 in a surprise ceremony at Dolce & Gabbana’s Villa Olivetta, attended by just four guests.
It’s unknown exactly how long the couple had been together prior to the ceremony, but they attended the premiere of Stephen Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story back in December 2021.
The child, given the genuinely jaw-dropping name Somersault Wonder Bernad, was born on 27 March 2024.
Sia and Dan Bernard were married in 2023 (Picture: Fernando Ramales / BACKGRID)The notoriously private hitmaker is seeking legal and physical custody of Somersault in the divorce but is open to visitation rights for Bernad, who she filed for divorce from after two years of marriage on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable differences.
She is also notably asking the court not to grant her Bernad any spousal support.
As the news of the newest addition to Sia’s family circulates, fans are struggling to get their heads around the baby’s unusual name.
The singer is famously private, rarely showing her face in public (Picture: Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images)@doofinc_ wrote on X: ‘Celebrities have GOT to stop naming their kids weird names.’
@MMONlKA agreed: ‘Why are we naming children after gymnastics moves?’
@cryptcsfangs joked: ‘Are her other kids named backflip and barrel role?’
@cryptmehta wrote: ‘What’s with Celebrities and weird names for they kids?’
Many fans are puzzled by the superstar’s unusual choice of name (Picture: Michael Loccisano/WireImage)Reddit user funkymoses pointed out that the name may be a tribute, writing: ‘Somersaultwas a song sung by Sia on ‘When It Falls’ by the band Zero 7 (2004)’
The new baby has two older brothers, teenage boys Sia adopted in 2019 when both were 18 years old and about to age out of the foster care system.
One of Sia’s sons was featured in the 2016 HBO documentary Foster, which explores the foster care system, leading Sia to seek him out two years later and adopt him.
The boy asked the Grammy-nominated singer if his cousin, Che, could also come to live with them, to which Sia agreed.
Sia adopted two teenage sons in 2019 (Picture: Sunday Project)‘I had two spare bedrooms, so I said, “Sure!”‘ she recalled in a 2020 interview with InStyle. ‘And even though I’d never met Che before, he also moved in with me that evening.’
The musician later told The Sunday Project, that motherhood was ‘painful and rewarding.’
She continued, saying of her two sons: ‘One’s doing better than the other, and it’s hard.’
Sia also revealed to InStyle that she had struggled with infertility during her first marriage to filmmaker Erik Anders Lang.
‘We did a lot of IVF, but I still had unexplained infertility,’ she said. ‘Eventually, we did get embryos, but then we also got a divorce, so I wasn’t able to use them.’
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