Gabby Reece Welcomes Baby Girl; Sows Confusion With Boy's Name

January 4, 2008

Gabby Reece Welcomes Baby Girl; Sows Confusion With Boy's Name

Volleyball star and former fashion supermodel Gabrielle Reece, 37, and husband and surfer Laird Hamilton, 43, welcomed their second child together on New Year’s Day — and sowed confusion among the gossip sites by giving their daughter the typically male name, Brody. After People ran their original story, saying the baby was a boy, gossip sites across the internet, lemming-like, regurgitated the wrong story.

So a girl it is, named Brody Jo, who joins big sister Reece Viola, 4.

Maybe the real story is the meaning of the name Brody. It is of Gaelic origin, and originally meant ‘ditch.’