Go read this Vanity Fair piece about Grimes and her secret baby with Elon Musk

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Sometimes journalists get lucky and discover information while reporting a story that they didn't expect to find. I don't recall ever reading a feature where the reporter discovers a previously undisclosed baby, like the one in the Vanity Fair profile of the singer Grimes, who says they have split again but remain friends with Musk. The two welcomed their first child in May 2020.

The general public was not aware that the couple only had one child. Gordon discovers something else. He thinks he hears crying but ignores it. She knows that there is a baby in the house. He goes for it like a good reporter.

So I brace myself to ask the strangest question of my career: Do you have another baby in your life, Grimes?

She eventually admits that the couple had a baby via surrogate in late 2021, named "Xa Dark Sider."

We also learned about another secret child.

• Grimes thinks of her son — who she calls X — as Paul Atreides from Dune and herself as Paul’s mother, Jessica
• Musk casually mentioned to her not long ago that he plans to leave for Mars in 10 years
• She does not consider the description “manic pixie dream girl” to be an insult

The entire piece is a wild ride that is better read than recapped. If you read Vanity Fair's cover story on Grimes, then come back here and talk about it more.