Amy Schumer Changed Her Son's Name After Realising It Sounded Like 'Genital'

It probably takes a long time to come up with a name for your unborn child and it's a topic many parents will tread around carefully - maybe they don't want it to be too 'traditional' or too 'different', or simply to sound like something unfortunate.

Take Amy Schumer as a prime example. She and her husband, Chris Fischer announced the birth of their baby boy back in May last year.

They called their little bundle of joy Gene Attell Fischer, with his middle name serving as a tribute to their comic friend Dave Attell. What an honour, eh?

Anyway, the honour was short-lived - the 38-year-old comedian soon found herself pointing out that the combination of her son's first and middle names sounded just like the medical term for people's nether regions. Cor blimey, she had a point.

Speaking on her podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith, Schumer revealed she and Chris had decided to change 11-month-old Gene's middle name.

She explained: "Do you guys know that Gene, our baby's name, is officially changed? It's now Gene David Fischer. It was Gene Attell Fischer, but we realised that we, by accident, named our son 'genital'."

On the podcast, Amy stars alongside co-hosts Rachel Feinstein, Bridget Everett, and Keith Robinson with their most recent guest being Claudia O'Doherty - who appeared in Trainwreck with Schumer.

O'Doherty went on to explain: "My mum pointed that out to me, actually. My mum was like, 'Amy's called her son genital,' and she was right."

But it turns out everything really does happen for a reason because she discovered that by changing Gene's middle name to David, she actually ended up killing two birds with one stone.

By selecting David, the parents were still honouring Dave Attell (well, his Sunday name at least) and David is also Schumer's father's middle name. What're the chances, eh? It's also my uncle's first name so we could even throw him into the mix if we wanted, right?

Joking aside, it's refreshing to see someone in the limelight airing these silly things that some parents might feel really bad about. You can listen to the full episodes (and all the other episodes of 3 Girls, 1 Keith) here.

Topics: Entertainment, Celebrity

Rebecca Shepherd

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