Sophia Michaels
According to the Aussie model, Flynn (born Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom) was named after her high school sweetheart, Christopher Middlebrook, who died in a car accident when she was just 16 years old. Kerr said she and Middlebrook had been dating for two years when he was tragically killed in the crash. “After he died, I wrote him a letter that said I hoped to name my first child after him in some way,” she told The Daily Telegraph (via People). “I told Orlando [Bloom], and he was the one who said he’d be happy to do that.” She went on to praise her then-husband, saying, “Orlando’s a good guy.”
Opening up about her first love in her book “Treasure Yourself,” Kerr said she and Middlebrook had talked about spending the rest of their lives together. “We had been dating for two years, and I had just left Gunnedah and moved to Brisbane when he was killed instantly in a car accident, and all of a sudden it felt as though my world had fallen apart,” she wrote (via Daily Mail). Reflecting on her boyfriend’s death many years later, Kerr said it taught her an important lesson. “That the people who touch your life are always with you,” she said. “It taught me that I have the choice to be grateful for the time I had with him instead of dwelling on losing him.”
