‘She Threatened to Divorce Me’: TikToker Asks Her Parents What They Almost Named Her and Gets an Unexpected Answer From Dad

A TikToker named Meme, who posts as @scaredandsobbing, asked her parents whether they had considered any other names for her before she was born. It’s a question many people have wondered about at some point. But the answer her father gave was far from what she expected. The video has garnered more than 10.6 million views and 3,411 comments. Meme wanted to ask her parents a seemingly innocent question: Had they considered any other names for her? She thought it would lead to a cute conversation, but instead, she learned about a misunderstanding that nearly caused a fight between her parents at the hospital. Before sharing the story, Meme explained that her mother had a difficult delivery. Both she and her mother nearly died during the process. By the time it was over, her mother was understandably exhausted and upset. Meme had been expected to be a boy, and amid the chaos, her mother asked her father to come up with a name. He suggested Angie. A fairly ordinary name, right?

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