Molly-Mae Hague has returned to YouTube for the first time since welcoming son Midas earlier this month and revealed the real inspiration behind his unusual name. The 27-year-old influencer and her partner Tommy Fury, who also have three-year-old daughter Bambi, announced the newborn's name weeks after he was born during Tommy's fight with Eddie Hall on June 13.
Name Inspiration from Real Steel
Many fans assumed that their son was named after the Greek king Midas, who turned everything to gold by touching it, but this is not the case. In her first YouTube vlog since giving birth, Molly revealed that their son's name was actually inspired by the 2011 robot boxing film Real Steel, starring Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly. One of the robots in the film is called Midas.
Molly shared: "We have named our son Midas. His middle name is Thomas and his surname is Fury, so he's Midas Thomas Fury. We had this name for a boy for quite a few years." She explained that she saw comments about the name originating from Greek mythology, and while she loves the saying "everything he touches turns to gold," the name came from the film.
She added: "The same way Bambi is not necessarily named after the Disney character Bambi, is the same way Midas is not named after the Greek King. This is the most random story - I actually found the name from watching a film called Real Steel, which is like the most random film. It's basically like Transformers. It's the most not me film ever. And I showed my mum it the other week, she was like, 'This is so like random for you to like this film.' And I was like, 'I know, but it's actually such a great film.'"
Molly concluded that when she was watching the movie, she thought Midas was a "really cool, strong name."
Opening Up About Baby Blues and Postpartum Depression
Elsewhere in the YouTube video, the influencer told her followers she was coping much better this time around and upon reflection believes she had postpartum depression with Bambi. She said: "There's actually no words to explain the difference in how I feel this time around post-birth to how I felt with Bambi, I can't put it into words the difference in this experience versus my first experience having a baby."
Speaking candidly, she added: "I feel like a completely different version of myself this time around to who I was postpartum with Bambi, there's literally genuinely no way to compare it. A lot of you will know that postpartum with Bambi I truly did struggle so, so much and I think looking back I probably did have postpartum depression to some extent. Definitely for the first I'd say three months to six months, I honestly can't remember a lot of that time with Bambi, and feel like I have completely blurred it from my memory and tried to forget in a sad way."
