- Teyana Taylor is a singer, recognized for her hits like “Gonna Love Me” and “Boomin.”
- She was married to former NBA participant Iman Shumpert from 2016 till 2023, and so they have two daughters.
- Teyana introduced that she and Iman have been separating in an Instagram submit on Sep. 17, 2023.
Teyana Taylor is a real triple risk, as a talented dancer, actress, and singer, however most of all, her music is her key focus. In addition to collaborating with main artists like making uncredited visitor appearances on Kanye West’s albums and choreographing Beyoncé’s “Ring The Alarm” video, Teyana has been profitable together with her albums VII, Ok.T.S.E., and The Album.
Exterior of music, Teyana, 32, additionally had a long-term relationship with former NBA participant Iman Shumpert, 33. The pair obtained married in 2016, and so they’re proud mother and father to 2 daughters Junie, 7, and Rue, 3. Sadly, the pair introduced that they’d separated after seven years of marriage in Sep. 2023.
In her announcement on Instagram, Teyana introduced that regardless of the separation, they have been nonetheless devoted to co-parenting collectively. “We’re nonetheless the perfect of mates, nice enterprise companions, and are one hell of a crew with regards to co-parenting our 2 stunning kids. Most significantly we’re FAMILY & within the 10yrs collectively, 7yrs married we ain’t ever performed with or about THAT,” she wrote.
Discover out extra about each of Teyana’s daughters right here!
Iman “Junie” Tayla Shumpert, Jr.
Teyana and Iman welcomed their first child woman on Dec. 16, 2015. Whereas she’s named after her mother and father, she additionally has the lovable nickname Junie. The R&B singer revealed that Junie arrived a month early, and she or he didn’t know she was in labor in an Instagram post, asserting her beginning. “She got here out as an exquisite shock to everybody,” she wrote. “It took two ten-count pushes with my fiancé enjoying Dr and she or he entered this world into his naked arms.”
Teyana mentioned that after Iman helped ship Junie, they went to the hospital, and all was effectively. In Iman’s announcement, he wrote that whereas he was scared, he knew instinctually what to do. “That is positively the perfect help I’ve ever recorded in my life. We have been certainly terrified till I lastly noticed her hair…then the worry left and I kinda simply knew what to do,” he wrote. “Individuals at all times inform me there isn’t a higher present than fatherhood and I lastly perceive the sensation.”
Over time, the couple have celebrated their love for his or her daughter on social media. Junie has additionally dipped her toe into the leisure enterprise as a younger mannequin. She’s appeared in campaigns alongside her mother, dad, and youthful sister. She’s additionally appeared in some campaigns on her personal, which Teyana has posted on social media. She’s appeared for thmbl, Essentials, and Concern of God.
Teyana opened up in regards to the qualities of each of them they noticed in Junie in a 2017 interview with GQ. “She eats, sleeps similar to Iman. Similar pose,” she mentioned. “They’re so alike in so some ways. After which she’s like me so far as the curious components. I’m like Curious George. My mates name me Jimmy Neutron. I’m at all times into devices and totally different stuff.”
Rue Rose Shumpert
Teyana gave beginning to her second daughter, Rue, in Sep. 2020, a day after her child bathe. After welcoming Rue, the singer revealed that she didn’t have plans for extra youngsters in an unique interview with HollywoodLife in 2021. “Lady, hear, two and executed, you hear me!” she mentioned. “I gotta give this [vagina] a break, there’s like shoulders popping out of there, OK! I’ve tattoos that aren’t executed. Think about God telling you, effectively you’re about to have this child, you possibly can’t push her again in there so it’s now!”
Earlier than Rue arrived, Teyana shared that Junie was excited to be an enormous sister in an interview with People. ” Junie is ecstatic — I’m speaking tremendous ecstatic. Everyone is simply excited. I can’t wait,” she mentioned. “We need to preserve her as concerned as attainable as a result of Junie clearly thinks that that is her child. She talks to my abdomen on a regular basis. It’s so good to see that.”
Iman and Teyana are clearly loving mother and father to each of their youngsters. The “Gotta Love Extra” singer shared that she threw a “Ruechella” themed get together for her daughter’s second birthday in 2022. “Rueeeeeeeee’s 2!!! #Ruechella was littttttttt,” she wrote.