Frances Bean Cobain

Life and career
• Childhood and youth
Frances Bean Cobain was born in Los Angeles, California on August 18, 1992 to rock musician Kurt Cobain and musician/actress Courtney Love. She was named after Frances McKee, the guitarist for the Scottish indie pop duo The Vaselines. The middle name 'Bean' was chosen because Kurt thought she looked like a kidney bean on the ultrasound. Her godfather is R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, and Drew Barrymore is her godmother. She was raised by her mother, her aunts, and her paternal grandmother after her father's death when she was 1 year and 8 months old.
Cobain attended Happy Medium School in Seattle in 1994, now called Giddens School. During her kindergarten year, she attended Highland Hall in Northridge, California. While her mother was filming The People Vs. Larry Flynt in Memphis, TN, Frances attended The Maria Montessori School for a short time. She also attended The Willows Community School, located in Culver City, for elementary school and middle school.