Minnie Driver says her eight year-old son was a very unattractive baby
Minnie Driver is a guest on the Ellen show today, where she’s promoting her show Speechless on ABC. It’s a sitcom which premiered last fall and has its season finale on Wednesday. Minnie plays the mom of a special needs son who fights to get him in the best school, often to the detriment of the rest of her family. I haven’t seen it yet but the trailer makes it look cute and Metacritic rates Speechless at 79%.
Anyway Minnie talked to Ellen about her eight year-old son, Henry, and called him “a very unattractive baby.” She posted the above photo to her Instagram recently as evidence and I’m just not seeing it. She also said that Henry is a talented musician.
Minnie Driver sat down with Ellen DeGeneres to talk about her son Henry and admitted that when he was born he wasn’t exactly cute.
‘He was a very unattractive baby,’ the English actress, 47, explained.
She revealed she used to say to people: ‘You don’t have to tell me that he’s beautiful coz I know he’s not, but I love him.’
‘He’s quite a brilliant musician,’ she told the daytime chat show host in an interview taped for Monday’s edition of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
‘He plays the piano and he sings and he’s just learnt Clocks by Coldplay and he plays music like Elton John,’ Minnie gushed.
Minnie also said that little Henry didn’t have hair for two years and that if he didn’t know she thought he was an unattractive baby he knows now. To be fair she also said that she was ugly as a baby too. Maybe I’m in the minority and I’m ok with that, but I don’t think babies can be particularly “ugly.” Like even the weirdest-looking babies are cute to me just by virtue of being babies. Plus Henry was cute! He just had a big head, that’s all. I’m biased though because my son’s giant head was always in the 99% percentile for his age, he was huge.
Minnie also talked about her boyfriend of three years, a British guy named Neville Wakefield. Apparently she knew him as a teenager when he dated a friend, ran into him again and they started seeing each other almost immediately. When you google the guy he’s mostly associated with Minnie but he had some fame prior to dating her as he’s an artist, photographer and philosopher according to this interview. It’s unclear exactly what he does for a living. Hmmm. I also wonder if Minnie makes jokes about his looks. I do! He’s not a bad looking guy, I’m just saying.
photos credit: WENN, Fame, Getty and Minnie Driver/Instagram
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