PRIVATE LIFE

In September 2011, Dev publicly announced that she and her fiancé Jimmy Gorecki were expecting a baby girl due December 24, 2011. Dev gave birth to her daughter Emilia Lovely on December 9, 2011. Dev aired a n MTV Special about her life as a new mom and how she is juggling being a mother and a performer at the same time. The show also shed light on her daughter (Emilia Lovely Gorecki) who was born with a condition called gastroschisis, and how her daughter overcame it and is growing stronger every day.

At your concert in L.A. recently, your fiancé was there with your baby girl, who was fast asleep and rocking noise-cancelling headphones.
What does it mean for them to be a part of what you do?

- It was funny because I think a lot of people wanted to give me shit for having my child at The Roxy, but when my fiancé and I fell in love and wanted to have a family, we wanted to do all this stuff, too. It was like, we’re not gonna quit and stop our lives because we have a child. We’re fucking cool people, we’re going to raise her to be a fucking cool person. It was my first night celebrating the album. My sisters and parents came down, and I wanted my husband and baby to be there, so I bought these headphones for her [laughs]. It was too funny because she slept through the whole thing! She’s like, ‘Mom, you’re wack as hell’ [laughs].

Do you sing Emilia to sleep?

Sometimes I do. It’s cool, she really likes music, which is perfect.

What kind of music do you play for her?

Yeah, I have the Kanye West lullaby album, that Coldplay lullaby album, and a Nirvana one.

It must be pretty hectic juggling your new motherhood and career. How do you deal with that?

It’s hard. I definitely drink as much coffee as I can. But my fiancé plays Mr. Mom a lot; he has my back and supports me and does whatever he can to help, and that means a lot. In the middle of the night, he will wake up with her because I’ll have to do photo shoots or shows the next day. My family helps a lot - and [management company] Indie Pop and the Cataracs. It’s definitely a scary thing when you have your first child; you don’t really know what to expect. But having the support of everybody is awesome.