AJ McLean’s Daughter Elliott Celebrates Birthday After Name Change

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Turning double digits! Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean and spouse Rochelle McLean celebrated daughter Elliot’s tenth birthday — her first since altering her title earlier this yr.

“MY GIRL is 10 immediately! 🎉🎂🎁,” Rochelle, 41, wrote through Instagram on Monday, November 28, alongside a candy snap of Elliott in a Britney Spears tee. “I’m going to smother her in love, hugs and kisses immediately! So happy with the little woman she’s rising into♥️ Without end grateful the creator selected me to be her momma 🙏🏻 I really like you child lady 🥰. Completely satisfied Birthday @elliott_jaymes1127.”

The make-up artist, who additionally shares 5-year-old daughter Lyric with the 44-year-old musician, revealed that her preteen had determined to make a reputation change in August after realizing she most popular a moniker that felt distinctive solely to her.

“For these asking… not that it’s anybody’s enterprise however Elliot’s title change just isn’t a gender factor,” Rochelle wrote through her Instagram Story on the time, noting that Elliot has modified her “a number of instances” all through her life.

“Final yr she requested us to begin calling her Elliot and it caught. She needed one thing distinctive that nobody else had. (There are such a lot of Ava’s.) I didn’t actually see the hurt in respecting her want to be distinctive,” the Arizona native added.

Rochelle went on to clarify that it’s a “little odd” that oldsters get to “select names for individuals we haven’t even met but and count on them to eternally [identify] as that particular person.”

AJ, for his half, opened up concerning the title change throughout a September look on Immediately. The singer admitted he was “stunned” by his youngster’s request at first, not figuring out whether or not it was a “transgender factor.”

“It isn’t, however it’s a private selection,” he mentioned, including that whereas she’s going to “at all times be Ava” to him, each he and Rochelle respect their daughter’s decisions. “No matter reasoning it’s, that’s hers, and I’m going to help it one million %. My spouse will [too].”

The “I Need It That Method” artist, who tied the knot with Rochelle in 2011, completely opened as much as Us Weekly about his love of fatherhood in July.

“Clearly, daughters look as much as their dad and it’s such feeling. Actually, I really like to come back residence and to see them and to see their expressions on their face at any time when I come again residence,” he gushed. “To have the ability to go on daddy and daughter dates and get our nails completed and do all that type of stuff, to me, is simply superior and there’s nothing higher for me than having ladies. I don’t assume I might know what to do if I had boys to be trustworthy with you.”

Nonetheless, the Florida native additionally revealed that he wasn’t planning on increasing his household anytime quickly. “Nope, I’m completed. My spouse’s completed. Even numbers [are] good for me and her. Two is an efficient quantity, and there’s already a four-year hole between the 2 of them, so I feel we’re good,” he quipped.