...And baby makes three. OK, more like seven, but who's counting?! Tameka "Tiny" Harris of Xscape fame recently announced that she and rapper hubby T.I. were expecting their third child together (seventh child in total) later this year. Tiny made the announcement via Instagram video on Christmas day, saying, "Merry Christmas! Thank you to my family for my wonderful gifts. ... But most of all thank you for our new heir to the throne. The best Christmas gift you coulda gave me ever." The pint-sized singer-turned-wife and mom recently chatted with Essence about pregnancy after 40 (considered high risk by medical professionals), feeling great and who she hopes will be BFFs with her unborn baby.
Tiny is no stranger to childbirth and raising kids (her eldest, former OMG Girlz member Zonnique Pullins, will be 20 in March), but she says this pregnancy has been "one of the best" she's had, even though the fact that it is high risk has crossed her mind. I've been feeling good, the baby's great," she said. "[The high-risk factor has] crossed my mind, of course. I am so much older. I'm about to have a 20-year-old in March so it was kind of a little shaky for me, but I feel like ... I don't feel old at all. These days, people are having babies later. A lot of people are having babies in their 30s and 40s now."
One such person is another former Xscape member, Real Housewives of Atlanta star and business mogul Kandi Burruss. Burruss, 39, just gave birth to a baby boy, Ace Wells Tucker, her first with new husband Todd Tucker. Both Burruss and Tucker have a daughter each from previous relationships, but this is their first child together. It took the pair a couple of years to finally get pregnant, and due to Burruss' age and stress levels, she was closely monitored along the way, but Tiny says her former group mate and friend is over the moon about her new bundle of joy.
"I'm so excited for her because she's always wanted a boy and she finally got one," Tiny explained. Tiny is also thrilled because her son or daughter-to-be already has an automatic playmate. "We're always talking about how our kids are going to get to grow up and play with each other as best friends because they're going to be so close in age."
Tiny and T.I. have yet to reveal the sex of their baby, who Tiny says was definitely a surprise. "This was not planned at all," she said. "It kind of snuck up on me. I was a little shocked but I was okay with it because I was in between, 'Do I want a baby? No, I don't want a baby. Do I want a baby?' I guess I did want a baby." She did say she was leaving the baby naming to her husband of five years this time around, though. I came up with a unisex name that I thought would be dope, but I'm gonna let him have this one," she said. "Whatever we decide, it will go along with the other kids' names that we have, Major and King."
Watch Tiny's Instagram announcement below.
