The multitalented Teyana Taylor and professional basketball player Iman Shumpert are expecting their second child.
What We Know:
- Taylor, 29, announced her pregnancy in her music video for the new song “Wake Up Love,” released Friday.
- As the two cuddles together in bed surrounded by clouds, the couple – who have been married since 2016 – reveals there is no trouble in paradise. In her signature sultry lyrics, Taylor beckons her beloved and calls him to please her in the morning, something the sheets or herself will not accomplish.
- At the end of the video, Taylor is seen in bed with Shumpert and their 4-year-old daughter, Iman Tayla, aka Junie. Taylor pulls up her shirt to show her baby bump. After the reveal, Junie can be seen be seen in the video playfully pushing her father’s hand away so that she can have full access to her mom’s bump – which, Taylor says, is par for the course for the youngster.
- Taylor confirmed the news in a statement to People and said she is expecting a baby girl. Taylor says Junie is “so excited” to become a big sister.
- Taylor and Shumpert – who also raps a verse on “Wake Up Love” – have a lot of names in mind for their baby girl on the way, Taylor says Junie “keeps changing it.”
“Kids handle siblings differently. You have kids that are a little bit jealous. But she’s so excited and preparing herself to be a big sister. She constantly kisses my stomach; she constantly talks to the baby. Even when we go to the store, she’s like, ‘Okay, mom, this is for the baby’. She’s so ready. She’s going to be such a great big sister.”
- Taylor first told Junie about the baby about a month after she found out she was pregnant – but capturing her reaction on film did not quite go as planned. Taylor brought out her camera. “When it finally happened and I told her, she was like ‘Are you kidding me?!’” Taylor says. “I was like, ‘I’m serious!’ She covered her face and she put her hands back out and she was like, you’re kidding! I’m having a sister?’”
- “I remember getting so mad at Iman because the TV was so loud,” Taylor says. “Even when it was not super loud, the phone camera picks it up. In the midst of getting this beautiful reaction, I’m telling Iman, ‘Babe, turn the TV down. Mute the TV.’ He keeps turning it down rather than muting it. I’m like, ‘Mute the TV!’ I remember being so mad because I never get to catch anything. Junie is so ahead of her time that people always think I made it up. But I still have the video, and it’s super cute.”
- Taylor shared new family photos in March from a trip to Disney World.
Taylor is expected to release her third studio album, The Album, this month. Shumpert last played in the NBA for the Brooklyn Nets.
