In March, actor Vin Diesel and his girlfriend Paloma Jiménez welcomed their third child.
The baby girl was named Pauline in honor of Diesel’s longtime Fast & Furious co-star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in November of 2013.
“He was in the [delivery] room,” Diesel recalled. “There’s no other person that I was thinking about as I was cutting this umbilical cord. I just…knew he was there.”
And Diesel decided that Pauline’s name would be a way to make sure Walker would always be there.
“It felt like, you know, a way to keep his memory a part of my family and a part of my world,” he explained.
The fact that Diesel also happens to have a fraternal twin brother named Paul probably made the decision to select “Pauline” that much easier.
His two older children are a daughter named Hania and a son named Vincent.
(His own birth name is Mark Sinclair. The “Vin” part of his stage name comes from his mother’s married name, Vincent, and “Diesel” was a nickname he picked up while working as a bouncer in New York City during college.)
Sources: Vin Diesel Welcomes Daughter Pauline, Vin Diesel reveals his new baby’s very special name, a tribute to Paul Walker, 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Vin Diesel
Image: Screenshot of The Fast and the Furious
