Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have a boy, call it 'Moses'

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have added to their family. Their second child, a son named Moses Martin, was born this weekend, the actress's rep tells PEOPLE.
The Shakespeare in Love Oscar winner, 33, and her British-born Coldplay frontman husband, 29, already have a daughter, Apple, born May 14, 2004. Moses is the name of a song Martin wrote for his wife in 2003.
Following months of speculation that she was pregnant, in January Paltrow confirmed that she and Martin were expecting. After a Screen Actors Guild screening of Paltrow's movie Proof, Lou Diamond Philips, about to moderate a panel on the film, introduced Paltrow as "a pregnant woman" and then asked her, "How far along are you?"
"Far enough along to feel very cumbersome," Paltrow answered.
When a member of the audience asked her how she got her hair so shiny, Paltrow replied, according to TV's The Insider: "It must be the prenatal vitamins ... I've been taking them for a few years."

Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow and their daughter Apple.
CREDIT: STEVE SANDS / BAUER-GRIFFINThree months after the birth of daughter Apple, the new mother appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted she couldn't understand why people were making such a fuss over the baby's name, which, in its entirety, is Apple Blythe Alison Martin.
Paltrow said that her husband suggested the name soon after she discovered she was pregnant. "It conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and ... clean," Paltrow told Winfrey. "And I just thought, 'Perfect!'"
"We love unusual names in the family," Paltrow's mom, Blythe Danner, told PEOPLE in January.
As for being a mom, Paltrow told Winfrey that the overwhelming love she feels for her child is "a whole new dimension in emotion that I've never experienced. It's crazy."

Definitely crazy: http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1175007,00.html

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

No jury would convict me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

So? I know a dude named Moses.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Having babies is so crazy!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Just your average self-absorbed rich person living in her own peculiar bubble of money. Nothing to get excited about.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thrilled that her body parts work as they should. Congrats.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

They should have called him Mac!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

As in Jesus?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Mac, dunno him

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Remember.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like that one of her justifications for "Apple" is that "it's biblical". Uh...huh. I mean, sorta. Except not usually in a good way, and anyway it probably wasn't an apple, really. Something just doesn't add up....

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

i dont know. its pretty cool for a girl to be the ultimate temptation.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sorry for that kid, Apple. She looks nothing like beautiful Gwyneth and instead has that grodey Chris Martin's mug.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

No, I reckon it was a banana, much more suggestive.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

It would be cool if the baby were named after Moses Malone.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

One of my friends works at a daycare where Gwyneth brings Apple in daily. She says the kid is butt ugly.

― darin (darin), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, logically it doesn't work. If you're a kind of person who GIVES a shit whether something is biblical or not, you'd be too scandalized to name a child after the occasion of Original Sin. If you're NOT that kind of person, why mention it at all?? I'm almost positive I'm thinking about this too much.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

maybe. or you could be the kind of person who loves religious imagery but isnt religious (my sister and i are like this).

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

She says the kid is butt ugly.

The kid looks like Chris Martin?

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I assumed they just liked apples. Though I like doughnuts, yet I wouldn't name my kids after them. I think maybe they are just trying to be kooky.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I really like Olives. I think I'll name my child Olive.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm naming my child Fajita.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Here is my speculation on the "biblical" matter, FWIW.

Gwynneth lives in a sparkly world of wonderfulness, where all good things are abundant. She samples all these things for just as long as she pleases and then hops, bunnylike, to the next sensation. She is bright, but has no reason to fasten her brightness to any subjcet or object, therefore her brain is active and eager, but shallow.

She clearly perceives her brightness and the wonderfullness of herself, but has not got the first freaking clue how shallow she is. Therefore, her attachement to the "biblical" nature of the name Apple is more a gesture at a thought than a ripened or complete thought. She takes up ideas the way a child picks up a toy in a room crowded with toys. It occupies her thoughts only for a short moment before she drops it for another.

As she likely has said more than once, "It's all good."

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

yes, you are really getting to the core of the matter

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

WORST PUN EVER.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

And therefore brilliant!

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

give it a rest

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

A CELEBRITY HAD A BABY AND GAVE IT A SLIGHTLY UNUSUAL NAME!!! HOW CONTEMPTIBLE!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

apparently chris invited a load of Egyptians to chase after Gwyneth when the water broke for Moses.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Im finding Aimless' whole rich = shallow and stupid theory increasingly disturbing.

Anyway, whatever with the name, how is this kid ugly??

http://i.esmas.com/image/0/000/004/579/PaltrowNT_.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40742000/jpg/_40742496_paltrow1_bodygetty.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

The kid may not be ugly, the mom on the other hand...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

...

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

...

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sunny, those are sort of old pics.. I just saw a v. recent one, and the kid is definitely odd looking lately.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

GOING THROUGH AWKWARD BABY PHASE

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

post it up

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

i think the apple kid is real cute !

― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

the mom on the other hand...

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

...

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

...
...
...
YAHTZEE!

― Dan (I Love Ellipses) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think we owe Gwyneth an apology:

Deuteronomy 32:10: 'He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.'

Zechariah 2:8: 'For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.'

― Nemo (JND), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

rich = shallow and stupid theory

An oversimplification of my theory. Far from being stupid, I think she's likely very bright and I said as much already. This has more to do with being raised in an atmosphere of privilege and comfort, then rapidly attaining wealth and fame, when still young, in a pursuit that does not require great intellectual attainments.

I'm pretty sure that if you sat down with Ms. Paltrow and had a long shop-talk about the craft of screen acting, that she would grasp this subject with considerable precision and in detail. Her ideas there would be well-developed and interesting. But outside that specialized area, her experience of the world has been necessarily sheltered from the start. She has never had any reason to develop her other ideas in depth, because they are not called forth by any external necessity.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

It sprang from her burning bush

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

and you get this all from her naming her son "moses," aimless?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

(and not of course from a need to feel somehow superior to rich attractive celebrities)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe she's just a hippie and wants her kids to be free thinkers.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

[shrug] I suppose that's a theory, too. Except I don't really believe I'm superior to her. We just live in very different circumstances and we have made different choices from among different options.

She does show some of the telltale signs of giddiness that would tend to bolster my theory - but I don't know enough about her know if it is true.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't she spotted recently drinking a beer whilst still pregnant?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

My money's on their next kid being named Moon Unit.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

x(x6?)-post
I stand corrected on the 'stupid' part. I just dont know why poor/middle class people are deeper than rich people. Just because you can buy a bunch of shit and you'll never have to worry about the rent doesnt mean you never talk to other people or have experiences outside the mansion gates. Believe me, pawning your stuff to buy food doesn't make you a better person. Just an angrier one.
Wow. How poignant of me.

Anyway, I always thought it would be a smart move to give your kid an unusual name. From what I remember of school, the kids with the unusual names were always regarded as unique and much more interesting than the cathys or joannas or davids and , yeah, katharines. Of course, unusual back then was like 'zoe'.

I like Apple. Its all fresh and clean. Moses? eh.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

i watched a true hollywood story yesterday on rock star kids. moon unit looked like she was doing just fine.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

GYWNTHE PALTROW DRINKS BEER WITH BABY STILL INSIDE HER CALL THE COPS OH WAIT JUST GINGER BEER SORRY GUYS NO WAIT LITE BEER CALL THE PRESSES NEXT BABY TO BE NAMED 2.5%

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

SHE GAVE HER BABY A JEWISH NAME SHE MUST BE MENTALLY RETARDED

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like an Anal Cunt songtitle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is my daughter, Amstel.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

beer??? i dont know how anyone who knows that c9lbs of baby is coming out of DOWN THERE within 9 months isnt shooting heroin every ten minutes.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Man, thanks a lot Ned... Now I gotta dig through the records I haven't even unpacked yet because I want to hear Anal Cunt.

Also I've no doubt Moon Unit is doing just great. My point was that Paltrow and Asshat are not so original in their quest for "unusual" names.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Note to paltrows: name next child the biblical 'Anal Cunt'

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

moon's mom also said frank gave her only two choices 'moon' or 'motorhead'.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

haha, exactly, ss re: beer.
haha, Motor Head.
I like the name Moses.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 10 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE PEOPLE WHO HATE APPLE

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend who's named Moshe, which I think is Hebrew for Moses. I think I like like "Moshe" better than "Moses" just because it's more fun to say. But yeah- my first thought was that at least it's not quite as weird as Apple.

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought that Apple was maybe named after Apple Studios and with a last name like Martin it was kinda clever, but no it's none of those.

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

my friends just named their kid moses... it's really not that weird a name!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Moses is several orders of magnitude more normal than Apple. I was expecting they were going to call the kid Celery.

― Dan (Or Maybe Cruller) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Bearclaw Paltrow-Martin

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

gwyneth hates rap music

― --+-++-++, Monday, 10 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they call the baby Moishe.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they call the baby Moesha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ black ppl

― --+-++-++++ (jaymc), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

you forgot to sign out

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

If ethan turned out to be jaymc's tyler durden I would be beyond depressed.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I find it astonishing that the Osbourne kids have such normal names.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Ozzy has much of an imagination left.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Ozzy named them.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Named him after a man of the cloth,

Called him http://www.alabamawildman.com/img/sheet_amos.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

My landlord's name is Moishe, so that's fine. What's not fine is that they apparently named him after a Coldplay song.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 10 April 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

the mom on the other hand...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

What's not fine is that they apparently named him after a Coldplay song.

His full name is Moses Yellow Speed Of Sound Martin.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Still better than Audio Science.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think apple is a bad name.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't an apple, it was a FORBIDDING FRUIT. Nowhere in the bible does it say apple. But hey whatever, I think even if it's a biblical reference, what a dipshitlamecrazyass name is that. Maybe sorta okay in a mental kinda way if it's a kid, but an ADULT named Apple?!? Moses ain't much better.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

(hahaha gbx, did you happen to be in school with any of the G3rg3ns? Possibly Sparrow's around your age?)

― Dan (Teal? Crow?) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

POMEGRANATE I"M TELLING YOU

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

(I know Teal and Crow are like light-years older than you, I just think they lost in the bird name lottery.)

― Dan (Winner: Robin) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

But also, with Apple, she can be called Apps, which is cute! And possibly adult-acceptable? I maintain my like for Moses. Can't wait for math names though.
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

i hope his middle name is "supposes"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

you forgot to sign out

i wasn't tryna steal his identity.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

(I know Teal and Crow are like light-years older than you, I just think they lost in the bird name lottery.)

HERRO DIRECTOR OF ALL SCHOOL PLAYS I WAS EVER IN.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^= (Winner: Robin)

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

you went to a nice school.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Moses? I thought it was going to be Mortimer?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm disappointed it's not Pincher after all

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, I always thought it would be a smart move to give your kid an unusual name. From what I remember of school, the kids with the unusual names were always...

Mocked and ridiculed.

Yep, that's about right.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

check

albeit no more really than anyone else. instead of being mocked for being fat, or having glasses or something, its just yr name. although this company

http://ensim.advenziacommerce.com/englishexports.co.uk/userdata/product/Ambrosia%20Devon%20Custard%20425g%20Can.jpg

can still eat a million bags of dicks, 20 years on.

my brother got it worse tho

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

what's his name?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

you don't like custard?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

i know a guy named moses. but he's v. interesting looking and sort of serious, so it works.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost he's gabriel

i suppose im consistent in finding all of ambrosias products repugnant as well as their name.

as for apple, i like it more than moses. i think they are both pretty cool names, and for CelebFreakazoid names they are good compromise between what appears to be some sort of obligatory weirdo naming necessity and actually calling their kids ok names.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Gabriel and Ambrose are both fantastic names.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Moses Martin" sounds like a long-forgotten blues or bluegrass guitarist from the 1930s, not the infant child of intolerable people!! Unfair advertising.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

the infant child of intolerable people

This is my new favorite phrase.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

one of her justifications for "Apple" is that "it's biblical".

Next kid, Sodom.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Good article about how celebrity baby names aren't that weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

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