Katharine McPheegot in a little hot water with husbandDavid Fosterfor divulging their 3-week-old son’s name.
“Well, I, you know, my husband was kind of annoyed,” she says of the unplanned revelation. “I said, ‘What was I supposed to say? Nothing?’ Like, ‘I’m sorry, we’re not sharing the name’? Because we don’t want to be that pretentious over the name, but just, it’s the only kind of thing you can hold onto that feels private, you know, that you can kind of keep.”
“But Hoda just asked me on theTodayshow like ‘What’s his name?’ And I didn’t want to be like, ‘Sorry, we’re not sharing it,’ " she says, adding, “You can’t say no to Hoda! My husband is friends with her too. So anyway, I think he’s just like, ‘It’s the only thing we have to keep private.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, she asked me the question!’ "
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TheAmerican Idolalum says they “love the name,” calling it “so original.” The new mom adds that they decided on it just “two hours before he was born.”
“It sort of took my breath away,” she says of the name, which has a connection to Foster’s extended family. “I was waiting for something like that and I just didn’t think it would happen. We were going to name him something totally different, which was a great name, but not something that meant something.”
“Anyway, yes, the cat’s out of the bag. It’s not like, you know, we’re the only people who’ve named our child something, but it’s just, we wanted to keep it as private as long as we could,” she says, joking, “Anyway, I’m in trouble, but hopefully my husband won’t be too mad at me!”
The coupletied the knotin June 2019 afterfirst meeting in 2006, when Foster mentored McPhee and other contestants on season 5 ofAmerican Idol.Foster is already father to daughtersSara, 40,Erin, 38, and Jordan, 34, whom he shared with second wifeRebecca Dyer, and daughters Allison, 50, andAmy, 47, from previous relationships.
“Now that I am having a boy, there are different things I need to worry about to teach him versus the things I would be thinking about with a girl,” she said. “But it’s kind of refreshing because I feel like I don’t need to think about those societal ‘this is the way you look.’ I think men have different issues and different things to worry about.”
source: people.com
