Frances Bean Cobain

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**Frances Bean Cobain**
Frances appearing in The Return of Glammy documentary.
Born:	August 18, 1992 (age 14) Los Angeles, California, USA
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Frances Bean Cobain (born August 18, 1992) is the only daughter and child of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. Frances Cobain was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at 7:48 AM, weighing 7 lb 1 oz (3.2 kg).^[1]

1 Biography
2 Trivia
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Frances is believed to be named after Frances McKee, frontwoman of Glasgow group The Vaselines, or Frances Farmer, as noted in Cobain biographies such as Never Fade Away. Both Kurt and Courtney showed an apparent fascination with the Seattle actress, with Courtney even wearing a dress that once belonged to her when she married Kurt. The middle name Bean was chosen because Kurt thought she looked like a bean on the ultrasound.^[2]

Prior to Frances Cobain's birth there were rumors suggesting that her mother, Courtney Love, used heroin during her pregnancy with Frances. This scandal intensified when Vanity Fair published Lynn Hirschberg's article "Strange Love" that alleged Love admitted to taking heroin even after learning of her pregnancy. The response to this article caused serious damage to Love's public standing, and many parenting groups called for Frances to be removed from her parents' custody immediately after birth. Along with Cobain, Love maintained that Vanity Fair took her words out of context. This continued after her birth, with tabloid reporters wanting to know if Frances was born addicted to drugs. The notoriety of the article even resulted in child welfare services launching an investigation into the couple's ability to parent. T-shirts were even made during this controversy that read "Free Frances Bean" by Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan.^[3] The investigation was eventually dismissed, but not without a significant amount of legal wrangling and two-week-old Frances being removed from her parents' custody for a short time, placed into the care of Love's sister.

April 1, 1994 was the last time Frances saw her father alive while visiting him at Exodus Recovery Center, the L.A. rehab clinic he had entered the previous day.^[4] The two of them played, and Kurt sang to her. Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home on the morning of April 8, 1994. Frances was just 19 months old at this time.

The following fall, Love enrolled Frances at Happy Medium School in Seattle, now called Giddens School.

To date, Frances has only given three official interviews:

In September 2005, at age 13, Cobain gave her first ever interview to Teen Vogue where she discussed her personal style and mentions her parents.^[5]

The second interview appeared in i-D magazine in January 2006, where she speaks out against the tabloid "lies" about her mother.

In August 2006, she was photographed for ELLE in her fathers famous red cardigan and his pajama pants that he got married in "I wore his pyjamas because he got married in them to my mom in 1992 in Hawaii so I thought they would be cute if I wore them today...He was too lazy to put on a tux so he got married in pyjamas!" She quotes. She said that she sometimes wears his clothes now and then and owns over 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans and many designer bags.

[edit] Trivia

She appeared in the music video for Nirvana's song "Sliver" as a baby.^[6]
She can be heard crying in the demo recording for Nirvana's song Rape Me (appears on WTLO)^[7]
According to Rolling Stone magazine, the title and cover photograph for Sliver: The Best of the Box, the latest posthumous Nirvana release, were chosen by Frances[1]. The cover photograph shows a pile of Nirvana and Cobain tapes strewn about, including a copy of the "Fecal Matter" demo.
Her godfather is R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe and her godmother is actress Drew Barrymore.