Ani DiFranco Has a ‘Trick Baby’

Every parent tends to brag about their child, but Ani DiFranco believes she has something special in daughter Petah Lucia, 23 months — her baby makes others want children! Ani jokes that she considers her little girl to be a ‘trick baby.’

“She’s really well behaved. We have a ‘trick’ baby, we say, because it makes all of our friends want to have babies. She’s pretty easy going.”

The 38-year-old singer/songwriter credits Petah and partner Mike Napolitano for helping her to create her latest album, Red Letter Year. “This record sounds better because I took a little time with it,” shared Ani during a recent interview. “I’ve got my baby and her daddy to thank for that.” Ani also credits seeing herself in Petah with helping  her write the song Present/Infant.

“It’s about laying eyes on my daughter for the first time and going, ‘Oh no, she looks like me!’ And then going, ‘Oooh, that’s a f-cked-up thing to think.’ And going from there into having to address wholeheartedly my self-loathing before I teach it to her.”

Source: The Courier-Mail