Just weeks after giving birth to her second child, daughter Cleopatra Ricci Hampton, actress Christina Ricci opened up about her newborn on Ellen.
The 41-year-old actress shares seven-year-old son Freddie with her ex James Heergarden, though Cleopatra is her first child with husband Mark Hampton, who she married in October.
Ricci revealed that her daughter was originally supposed to be named just Cleo, before her husband spilled the beans, and spoke about how much harder having a child is after 40.
Opening up: Just weeks after giving birth to her second child, daughter Cleopatra Ricci Hampton, actress Christina Ricci opened up about her newborn on Ellen
Ricci joked that her appearance on the Thursday episode of Ellen was her, 'first time out of the house' since giving birth to Cleopatra.
They started talking about her daughter's name, with Ricci saying she had a C-section and right before, her husband suggested her full name of Cleopatra.
'Right before when they were preparing me and they started talking about how we had to fill out birth certificate stuff, my husband was like, "Well, we're gonna give her a full name, right? And the nickname is Cleo,"' Ricci explained.
First time: Ricci joked that her appearance on the Thursday episode of Ellen was her, 'first time out of the house' since giving birth to Cleopatra
'I was like, "Cleopatra?" He's like, "Yeah, the full name's Cleopatra," and I was sort of like, "OK fine, whatever, we'll talk about it later,"' Ricci explained.
She added that Hampton got, 'so excited that he put it on
