Pete Wentz On "Surreal" Labor, Choice Of Bronx Mowgli As A Name

Being in the delivery room shortly before Ashlee Simpson gave birth Nov. 20 was "pretty surreal," Pete Wentz says in his first interview since welcoming son Bronx.

"Obviously, some stuff my wife would freak if I said, but she's pretty much a saint," he said Tuesday on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show. "Right before she went into labor, I was like, 'Oh my God, I think I'm having a heart attack!'

"Natural things start going on in your body," Wentz went on. "My heart started beating really fast...."

As for the unique moniker, Bronx Mowgli?

He said he and Ashlee had been "throwing it back and forth a while ago. I feel weird because all these people have all these ideas on what it means ... I don't think anyone knows the real story of why or how."

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Comments

[joebiz]

The kid's name is not as weird as how he described the birth: "Surreal." What's bizzare or dreamlike or irrational about child birth? If you don't know what a word means, don't use it. Then again, maybe Bronx Mowgli is the apt name for something that these two may not understand.

The irony is that these two "cool" celebrities think they're cool by naming the kid Bronx after the Dane settler Jonas Bronck, aka Bronx. What tools.

[QueenOfViolets]

Mowgli was raised by wolves in the jungle. I hope that doesn't bode ill for the baby.

[AlmostLiberal]

Bronx Wentz. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

Charming.

[MagicalPossibilities]

Poor kid. Why do celebrities have to give their children such bizarre names? I guess they can just call him BM for short... (rolls eyes)

[CrisOmg]

What's weird about Bronx Mowgli?

I named my kids Yonkers Flounder and Poughkeepsie Pumbaa.

[Eric8869]

The baby had eyeliner and was lip syncing when born.

[AlmostLiberal]

You mean "guyliner".

[Yovovi]

I think anytime these "celebrities" name their kids "Brooklyn", "Indiana", "Montana" or Bronx", there should be a requirment that the family uproot and live there. They would reconsider some of these names, believe me! I can't wait for Heidi Montag to name a child "Harlem" next year. What idiots!

[Yovovi]

These people are such idiots. It's lame that these so-called artists couldn't come up with a more original or meaningful name. What doushebags!

[Ningnang]

Pretty sad the hating and judging on this thread...why don't you all get over yourselves, get off your a**es and go and try to find something positive to do. Can you find it within yourselves?

[LiberalBuzz]

What mor ons.

Ug ly couple. And I feel for the kid. He is going to get razzed and possibly beat down for that ridiculous name.

He will HATE his parents for being too selfish to give him a name he could live with. WHAT is with celebs giving their kids such idi ot names???

[IowaCali]

That poor child.

[JoeLib]

Hi. We're a soon to be has-been celebrity couple. We have children as cries for attention. Please read about us. Please!

[fishgirl26]

WTF? Why can't celebrities pick a normal name like Michael, John, or Sam......Bronx Mowgli...great he's named after a burrough in NYC and a character from the jungle book that was raised by apes....

[unfettered]

Like having them as parents wasn't bad enough the kids gonna get beat up every day for that dumb name.

[jpmdevildog]

Their son hates the name too.

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/bronx-mowgli-also-hates-name/