According to a new memoir by Todd S. Purdum, Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, Ball had picked out two names for the couple’s future children: "Susan and Desi Jr.," per letters the comedienne reportedly wrote and signed to her then-husband, Desi Arnaz.
"Thrilled to be a mother at last, Lucy asked to see the newborn the moment her anesthesia wore off. 'I want to see Susan!' 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," wrote Purdum. "'You mean Lucie?' the nurse replied. Without consulting her, Desi had already written Lucie Desiree on the birth certificate, naming the little girl for her mother and maternal grandmother. Lucy was surprised but didn't make a fuss. The name was, after all, a compliment she could hardly resist."
Desi Jr.'s birth was the most notable of the two, with his arrival made part of I Love Lucy in perhaps some of the most memorable episodes of the show.
While many knew them as the beloved TV couple who made them laugh week in and week out, what went on when the cameras went down was hardly comical.
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television is available now.
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