Silvija Nedeljkovic Gives Birth to Twins: Bosko and Stasa
The singer gave birth to a boy and a girl on September 21, after 17 years of waiting. She revealed their names on TikTok, with the message: "Thank God."
Serbian singer Silvija Nedeljkovic gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on the evening of September 21, at the Narodni front maternity hospital in Belgrade. The delivery was done by cesarean section, and the singer confirmed the news herself on TikTok, where she also revealed the children’s names.
“9/21. Bosko and Stasa. Thank God,” Silvija wrote alongside the post, which showed an animated stork carrying two babies, one in a blue cradle and one in a pink one.
The father of the twins is Sasa Stamenkovic, a former football goalkeeper. The couple had been trying to have children for 17 years. Their son was named Bosko, after Sasa’s grandfather, while Silvija chose their daughter’s name only after she saw her for the first time.
The couple had already settled on the boy’s name before the birth. “We knew for certain the boy would be named after his grandfather, Bosko,” Silvija said earlier, Novosti reports. As she explained at the time, she wanted to wait until she saw her daughter before deciding what to call her.
The name Stasa was finally chosen after the birth. While the couple was still waiting for the babies, Sasa himself commented on how closely the two names sounded alike. “It works out best for her to be Stasa, because the next day, if I say Sasa, it comes out the same as Stasa,” he said, according to Novosti.
According to Novosti, both mother and babies are doing well.
Novosti reports that the name Bosko is of Slavic origin, a pet form of the names Bozidar or Bozo, rooted in the word “Bog” (God). Stasa is a female name that has grown increasingly popular in Serbia in recent years, with its extended meaning interpreted as “the one who wins.”
Silvija has previously spoken about the road to her pregnancy. Because of the nature of Sasa’s job, she went through most of the process alone, and after several rounds of in vitro fertilization, she approached the final attempt differently, more calmly. She traveled to Thessaloniki feeling completely at peace, spent a few days enjoying herself before the procedure, and later pointed to that positive energy as part of the reason it worked this time.
Silvija previously described in detail what happened after she returned from Thessaloniki, in a statement for Blic:
“When I got back and found out a few days later that I was pregnant, and then found out it was twins, it was simply unbelievable. The feelings were mixed, happiness and fear and worry, but somehow I felt a certain peace from the beginning until today. We are truly overjoyed.”
She said this while the pregnancy was still ongoing, hoping everything would go well until the end. Now, after September 21, that hope has been fulfilled.
The TikTok post quickly drew reactions. Congratulations from followers piled up underneath it, with comments noting that the couple had finally gotten what they had been fighting for for years.
Silvija has spoken publicly about the couple’s struggle to have children on several occasions, most recently in a podcast shortly before she learned she was expecting twins.
