Amy Schumer has made the drastic move of changing her son’s name as it originally sounded like ‘genital’. The 38-year-old comedian welcomed her first child with husband Chris Fischer in May 2019 and bestowed upon their baby boy the name Gene Attell.
Baby Gene’s middle name wasn’t a random choice but instead a tribute to Amy’s close friend and comedian Dave Attell. However, the couple didn’t realise that both names said together sound fairly similar to, well, ‘genital’.
How unfortunate. But rather than expose their child to future playground ridicule, Amy and Chris did something about it. ‘Do you guys know that Gene, our baby’s name is officially changed?
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