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Francesca Farago & Jesse Sullivan Reveal Unique Names of Their Twins
Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan's inspiration for their twins' names is excessively saccharine to handle.
One week aft the mates announced the arrival of their girl Poetry Lucia Sullivan and lad Locket Romance Sullivan, Jesse—who is besides dada to Arlo Bear, 16—revealed wherefore they chose those unsocial names.
"I gave Francesca a aureate locket with Arlo, our canine and our cats' pictures wrong connected our precise archetypal Valentine's Day," helium explained successful the Nov. 17 TikTok video. "We fell successful emotion with the sanction Locket. We said this truly aboriginal connected that if we ever person a kid, we privation to sanction him oregon her Locket."
As for their babe boy's mediate name? "We conscionable loved the sanction Romance," helium continued. "It was truthful beauteous and chill and badass. So we thought that Locket Romance conscionable sounds similar the coolest feline you've ever met."
Meanwhile, Francesca, 31, and Jesse, 35, knew that their daughter's sanction was the cleanable lucifer for her.
"Same happening with the connection poetry," helium noted. "We conscionable thought that the feeling it gives you erstwhile you perceive it and accidental it is truthful beauteous and she's truthful beautiful, truthful it fits her. We similar names that consciousness romanticist successful general. Lucia, her mediate name, is Francesca's mom's name. It's an aged Italian name."
Jesse, who projected to the Too Hot to Handle alum past April, besides reflected connected the infinitesimal they welcomed their twins. "I knew successful that infinitesimal my beingness is the beingness I've ever dreamed of," helium wrote connected Instagram Nov. 17. "Francesca is the champion ma successful the satellite already, and I cognize we're going to rise the champion small humans together, on with large sibling Arlo."
Since Francesca announced her gestation successful April, the mates captivated the net with their unsocial database of babe names that had been ruled out. The world prima revealed successful a May TikTok that the sanction Rocket was a favorite, on with Ethereal, Lyrics, Monday, Alchemy, November, Stone, Prosper and Darling.
"I emotion really, really, truly unsocial names," Francesca explained successful the video, "but I besides privation the sanction to beryllium beautiful, beardown and beauteous successful its ain right."
Jesse besides shared his preferred names, including Aristotle, Traveler, Adventure, Novel, Scholar, Evening, Coven, Elixir, Labyrinth, Rhapsody and Orca.
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Despite raising eyebrows with their children’s names, helium revealed it was the aforesaid interest for his eldest’s moniker.
"When I named Arlo, Arlo Bear, radical really thought I was brainsick and they were like, 'You're gonna ruin their life. They're gonna beryllium bullied,'" Jesse explained successful his May TikTok. "Arlo has ne'er been bullied for their name.”
Now, work connected for much of Jesse and Franesca’s emotion story.
June 2021: First Meeting
Though Francesca Farago tried her luck with emotion connected a fewer world dating shows, including Too Hot to Handle, she met her cleanable lucifer successful Jesse Sullivan portion hosting an lawsuit online.
“TikTok hired maine to big an lawsuit for Pride Month,” Francesca told Elite Daily successful 2023. “It was implicit Zoom. It was a TikTok unrecorded lawsuit with Willow Smith and the app’s LGBTQ+ Trailblazers. I interviewed 3 radical and Jesse was 1 of them. We met connected Zoom and conscionable fell successful emotion precise quickly.”
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Summer 2022: Social Media Official
And though her clip connected play 1 of Netflix’s Perfect Match (which aired successful 2023) didn’t enactment out, Francesca knew that destiny had bigger plans successful store.
In fact, arsenic the world prima shared successful a TikTok, “Literally the infinitesimal I near that villa, I texted Jesse, and I was like, 'Hey, are you inactive single? I'm traumatized and bash you privation to bent out?'"
And the remainder is history. Since then, the brace person shared penetration into their romance connected societal media. “We’re conscionable truthful successful love, and I consciousness that’s evident with what we post,” she told Elite Daily. “Some couples stock a filtered mentation of the blessed times, but they don’t station thing negative. We really don’t person immoderate antagonistic times. It’s each positive.”
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May 2023: Engagement
Two years aft they archetypal met, Francesca and Jesse were ecstatic to commencement a marque caller section together.
“WE’RE ENGAGED,” Francesca shared successful a May 2023 Instagram post, “a glimpse into the astir magical nighttime ever, obsessed with our family… what is life!!” Fast guardant to aboriginal 2024, and the mates made it wide that they were keen connected starting a family, adjacent earlier their nuptials.
"We privation a immense wedding, but I deliberation it would beryllium truthful cute if we had a small babe successful our arms oregon 2 babies successful our arms astatine the wedding," Francesca exclusively told Live From E! big Laverne Cox astatine the People’s Choice Awards that February. "So, hopefully we tin person a babe archetypal and past bash the wedding after."
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March 2024: Baby (Soon-to-be) connected Board
And arsenic predicted, Francesca and Jesse—who is dada to teen Arlo from a erstwhile relationship—announced they were expanding their family.
"We wanted to instrumentality this peculiar time to observe this astonishing milestone with each of you," Francesca wrote connected Instagram March 31. "We've brought you with america done the loss, truthful we couldn't hold to bring you on for the win. I americium inactive beauteous recently pregnant, and there's truthful overmuch much to come, but we are truthful excited to beryllium increasing our household with Arlo arsenic the coolest older sibling! AHH IM PREGNANT!"
As for Jesse, helium was much than excited to stock the news. "We're pregnant!" the influencer, who came retired arsenic transgender successful 2019, captioned a clip. "Its been specified a conflict to get here, but we felt similar TDOV was the cleanable time to fto you each successful connected our celebration. Im truthful arrogant of @Francesca Farago for warring her mode to get here, and I autumn much successful emotion with her each day. Thank you for pursuing our journey, and heres to much trans joy!"
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April 2024: Double the Love
A week aft the pair confirmed Francesca is pregnant, Jesse shared they'll beryllium adding not 1 but two more members to their family.
"We're having twins," Jesse wrote nether his April 7 TikTok. "We cognize it's aboriginal but we're preparing for the best."
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July 2024: Baby Shower
While surrounded by their nearest and dearest, the mates revealed the twins' sexes— announcing a lad and girl were connected the way.
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November 2024: The Twins Are Born
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