One minute you’re sitting down for an interview to discuss music, artificial intelligence, teenage drug use, and anime, the next you’re accidentally letting the world know that you’ve had another baby with the richest man on planet Earth.

That’s what Grimes has done in a new cover-story interview with Vanity Fair writer Devin Gordon.

The kid-number-two revelation comes off the top, right after the Vancouver-raised electropop musician born Claire Boucher talks about the downside of fame (“We move and move and move because people keep finding where we live”), tattoos, and her new “space opera” (Book 1).
Interjecting himself in the story, Gordon writes:

“I hear what sounds vaguely like a lone cry from an infant upstairs. I think I notice Grimes wince, but I say nothing and move on. Could be anything. Another few minutes pass. Just as I’m about to bring up one of Book 1’s highlights, a soon-to-be-ubiquitous banger called “Sci-Fi” that she cowrote with The Weeknd and his longtime producer Illangelo, I hear it again. This time it’s multiple cries, and it’s unmistakable. I’ve got two kids. That’s a baby. And I can tell by the frozen look on my host’s face that she heard it too. So I brace myself to ask the strangest question of my career: Do you have another baby in your life, Grimes?”

The answer to that is then revealed to be a definitive yes. After first stating ““I’m not at liberty to speak on these things”, Grimes promptly does exactly that, revealing that, via surrogate, she and Elon Musk have had their second child together.

“Whatever is going on with family stuff,” she quoted as saying in the piece, “I just feel like kids need to stay out of it, and X is just out there. I mean, I think E is really seeing him as a protégé and bringing him to everything and stuff.… X is out there. His situation is like that. But, yeah, I don’t know.”

The translation of that is that the new baby is a girl, named only as Y, which makes sense given that their previous child, born in 2020, answer to the name of X.

Because raising kids is as hellish as it is rewarding, following the birth of X, Grimes and E—ummm, Elon Musk—promptly announced that they were splitting up, even though they still love each other.

The birth of Y comes after Grimes took to Instagram with a post in January that hinted she was pregnant again. Actually, “hinted” isn’t completely accurate—she posted a photo of herself with a healthy baby bump.

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In sitting down for the interview, Grimes at least seemed resigned to the fact that there are some secrets you can’t keep forever.

As Gordon writes:

“I can’t pretend I don’t know she’s got a secret baby with the world’s wealthiest man hiding upstairs. Especially when she invited me here. It’s a calming period that breaks with a sitcom punch line: full-blown infant screams upstairs, followed by the voice of a woman pleading SHH. Now we both start laughing. Did she really think I wasn’t going to hear a baby?
Grimes just shakes her head. “She’s a little colicky too.” She laughs again and buries her face in her hands. “I don’t know. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

You can read the whole piece here.  

And finally, because you want to know, Grimes has followed today's big news with a relationship update. Perhaps because, as mentioned, parenthood is hell (especially when the bun is right out of the oven) Elon Musk is no longer going by the name of "Mr. Grimes". 

Taking to Twitter this morning, Grimes wrote this: "Me and E have broken up *again* since the writing of this article haha, but he's my best friend and the love of my life, and my life and art are forever dedicated to The Mission now, I think Devin wrote that part of the story rly well. Sique—peace out."