In an emoji-laden announcement, Kim Kardashian West tweeted Monday that she and husband Kanye West have named their baby boy Saint:
It's an audacious name laced with terrifyingly high expectations for North's little brother. But maybe he'll find comfort in knowing he's not the only celebrity kid on the block named Saint.
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and model Meagan Camper named their rugrat Saint Lazslo before it was cool. Their boy earned the name for having the good sense to hold off on being born until Aug. 20, 2014, after Wentz's tour had ended.
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"I was really sure we were going to have to cancel a show, or that he was going to show up, and he didn't," Wentz once said on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. "That's why Saint ended up happening, which will only be a problem, I feel, if he actually became a saint. That would be really weird."
Frankly, there's only one logical joke to make here. Julie Kliegman
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