{"id":559971,"date":"2026-03-23T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559971\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:50:17","slug":"jesinta-franklin-finally-reveals-very-unusual-name-of-third-baby-with-afl-star-lance-buddy-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/559971\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesinta Franklin finally reveals VERY unusual name of third baby with AFL star Lance \u2018Buddy\u2019 Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesinta Franklin has finally revealed the very unique name of her newborn son, her third child with her AFL star husband, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin.<\/p>\n

Jesinta and Lance welcomed their baby boy on the Gold Coast in December, and are already parents to Tallulah, six, and Rocky, five.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the model, 34, posted an adorable black and white photograph of her cradling her newborn and shared how he “hasn’t left her side” since he was born.<\/p>\n

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“Me and my little sidekick, Bam,” she penned, revealing her son’s unusual name.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s been on every Zoom, attended every meeting, every photoshoot and now, every podcast I\u2019ve done since he was born.<\/p>\n

“It can be tricky finding the balance between it all but this guy has made it so easy for us.<\/p>\n

“He doesn\u2019t leave our side and just rolls with the chaos that is our life.”<\/p>\n

Friends and fans rushed to the comments section to congratulate Franklin on her new bundle of joy and gush that his unusual name is “so cute”.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for letting us know his name. So cute,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n

“Hi Bam’s mum,” Aussie comedian Celeste Barber added.<\/p>\n

“Beautiful baby Bam with his beautiful mum,” another friend said.<\/p>\n

However some struggled to accept the child’s name was actually authentic.<\/p>\n

“Is his name Bam? Or just a cute nickname?” one questioned.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s his name x,” Jessinta assured them.<\/p>\n

Howver others weren’t convinced, with one follower asking “Why is the name a secret” along with an eye-rolling emoji.<\/p>\n

The businesswoman, who co-owns honey business Honey For Life, recently opened up about the downsides of pregnancy<\/a> as she prepared to welcome baby Bam.<\/p>\n

“This little person has given me a rough time the last couple of months,” she wrote on her Instagram Story.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, I’m not someone who thrives when they are pregnant…House, couch or bed bound given the odd occasion.”<\/p>\n

Jesinta also said she had “spent a lot of time” struggling with sickness and eventually started taking medication, which she said was “game-changing”.<\/p>\n

Despite the tough early trimesters, the podcaster described her third pregnancy as an “absolute blessing”.<\/p>\n

“Even though we thought we were happy and done with two beautiful children, we have been lucky enough to add another to the family,” she penned.<\/p>\n

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“Life works in mysterious ways, and I’m leaning into this next chapter with a grateful heart.<\/p>\n

“Lulu and Rocky are beside themselves and can’t wait to meet their baby.”<\/p>\n

Jesinta and Lance started dating in 2012 and got married four years later in a private ceremony attended by just close friends and family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The AFL couple famously purchased a sprawling Gold Coast mansion for a reported $8.75 million in 2022<\/a>, but are understood to have downsized last year to a $4.6 million country estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesinta Franklin has finally revealed the very unique name of her newborn son, her third child with her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,58909,1202,199819,276346,31732,85],"class_list":["post-559971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-buddy-franklin","tag-instagram","tag-jesinta-franklin","tag-lance-buddy-franklin","tag-lance-franklin","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}