Rapper Eve has shared a candid and emotional account of her experience as a new mother. In a recent interview, the “Tambourine” hitmaker revealed that she had initial fears about bonding with her son.
In September, while on tour to promote her new memoir, “Who’s That Girl?”, Eve disclosed she had an ectopic pregnancy while filming her Eve television series in 2006.
“You question yourself, your body, the universe, God, so many things,” she said to PEOPLE. “I told my husband (about the miscarriage) when we got close, but never spoke about it in public, not even (while I was hosting) The Talk.”
In a recent interview on the Breakfast Club, the Grammy-winning rapper opened up about another deeply personal struggle she faced: the fear of not bonding with her baby.
“I was actually scared I wouldn’t connect,” Eve confessed. “I swear to God. My sister-in-law told me that, too. She has three kids, and she was like, ‘Don’t feel weird because some women sometimes just don’t connect immediately.'”
This was a huge concern for the 45-year-old star, who has always been candid about her unconventional upbringing and how it shaped her view on parenting.
Eve, who welcomed her first child, a baby boy named Wilde Wolf, with husband Maximillion Cooper last year, explained how her fear of not connecting with her son was linked to her past.
“I just thought that possibly, because of the way I grew up, maybe I won’t be [able to connect],” she said, tearing up as she reflected on her childhood and the pressures she felt entering motherhood. “That makes me emotional because it’s a freedom.”
The rapper also admitted that her son, whom she shares with her husband Maximillion Cooper, is already a spoiled little boy. “He’s going to get away with a lot of sh*t,” she joked.
Although the Love is Blind rapper’s journey to motherhood was not easy, she eventually gave birth to her rainbow baby. In 2022, the TV host gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper.
