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Lucille Ball Had Her Firstborn's Name Picked Out. Then Desi Arnaz Went Behind Her Back
When Lucille Ball gave birth to her first child with husband Desi Arnaz, it was dad who named the baby — and Ball didn't even know the name until it was already on the birth certificate.
she told the nurse, using the name she believed that she and Desi had agreed on if the baby was a girl, after Lucy’s good friend, the young actress Susan Peters, who had been paralyzed from the waist down in a duck-shooting accident. Desi Jr.'s birth was even incorporated into the couple's show, I Love Lucy, and while he had his own foray into showbiz early on, he later retreated from the public eye and now rarely speaks to the press. But arguments and affairs marred the marriage, and they briefly separated in 1944, when Ball filed for divorce and left the couple's shared ranch in Chatsworth, Calif.
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