'People laugh at my son's name and say he'll never get work but he's made thousands'
WHEN Laura Phillips fell pregnant with her first son - she knew she wanted him to have a unique name.
Single mum Laura, 35, says the negative comments almost swayed her away from her chosen name, but she's glad she ignored the haters."And my son was always going to be my last baby, because once I had a boy I wanted to stop, so I thought 'I've got to go all out'. "I always say it's a Marmite name, people either love it or hate it. When I was pregnant, so many people said 'are you sure?' that it did make me debate it for a couple of days.
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