There’s an unusual trend happening right now in the world of Australia’s former reality TV contestants – they’re all choosing to name their beautiful baby girls Mae.
The Bachelor’s Matty J and Laura Byrne called their daughter Marlie-Mae, while Married at First Sight’s Davina Rankin and boyfriend Jaxon Manuel chose Mila-Mae for their new bub, and Bachelor In Paradise’s Simone Ormesher and partner Matt Thorne settled on Gracie-Mae.
This explosion in the hyphenated Mae names did not go unnoticed by Laura, who posted about the name coincidence on Instagram this week, in the most hilarious way.
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How cute is Marlie-Mae?!
(Instagram)Taking to her Instagram stories on Monday, Laura posted these two gorgeous – and very entertaining! – snaps of Marlie-Mae, with the caption: “The face you make when you realise that 90 per cent of ex-reality peeps have named their kids … -Mae this year.”
She then posted a smiling photo of her daughter, writing: “Mae the force be with you!”
This response is absolutely hilarious.
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Too cute!
(Instagram)Funnily enough, Laura has previously spoken about her fear of the hyphenated -Mae name becoming super common!
Speaking on the Shameless podcast back when she was still pregnant, Laura revealed the name Marlie-Mae was her top favourite moniker.
“My favourite, if it’s a girl, I really want to call it Marlie-Mae,” the jewellery designer revealed.
“Hopefully I’m going to have a baby before anyone else is listening to this podcast and there’s not like 50 Marlie-Mae’s in the kid’s school.”
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Laura is clearly besotted with her little bub, telling Now To Love in July that she is loving motherhood.
“Honestly, I could stare at her all day, she’s amazing. She’s the sweetest little thing,” she said.
“For all of the adjustments that need to be made … as soon as I had her, I was like ‘I’ll have another one!’ But yeah, it’s been really wonderful and she sleeps through the night really well and I think that everyone that has kids has very different newborn stories.”
Laura and Matty J are engaged to be married and plan to tie the knot in 2020.
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