Yesterday, we discussed the shadiness of the Dwyane Wade situation. Apparently, Dwyane fathered a third child sometime in February of 2013 (the baby was born on November 10). When Dwyane Wade confirmed this third child, he made a point of saying that he and Gabrielle Union were on a break when the baby was conceived, and that when he and Gabby got back together, he told her about the pregnancy. Well… it just seemed like a really shady story, obviously. And TMZ’s Shady Radar went off too, so they went into overdrive trying to investigate all the angles. They found the woman who gave birth to Wade’s kid, and as it turns out, she’s also Damon Wayan Jr.’s baby mama too. What the hell?
TMZ Sports has obtained the birth certificate for Dwyane Wade’s brand new son … which shows the kid’s name is Xavier Zechariah Wade … and he was only born last month.
Of course, Wade recently acknowledged that he had a kid with a woman who isn’t his fiancée Gabrielle Union. There are reports that Wade and Union were on a break when the child was conceived.
Now, we know the kid was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 2013 … just 6 weeks before Wade popped the question to Gabrielle, who he’s been dating since 2009.
According to the birth certificate, Wade’s baby mama is 30-year-old Aja Metoyer. The details of their relationship are basically unknown, except the obvious fact they have a kid together. Aja has two other children.
Metoyer did not list Wade as the father on the birth certificate, but she did give the child Dwyane’s last name.
Sources connected to the situation tell us … Dwyane has been making a serious effort to be a part of the child’s life and has visited Xavier several times since his birth. Most recently, Dwayne visited his son while he was in L.A. to play the Lakers on Christmas Day.
TMZ Sports has learned … Aja’s two other children were fathered by “Happy Endings” star Damon Wayans Jr. … the son of “In Living Color” legend Damon Wayans (obviously).
We’re told Damon is very involved in the children’s lives.
This is more revealing to me about Damon Wayans rather than Dwyane Wade. I had no idea that DJ Wayans had two kids! Also – Xavier is becoming a popular name these days. January Jones named her “whoopsie” baby Xavier as well update: whoopsie, January named her X-baby Xander. Anyway, I guess we’re saying that Dwyane and Aja knew each other, they were friends, and they had some kind of affair. But what about Gabrielle Union? Were Wade and Union really on a break? TMZ investigated (really they just looked through Union’s Instagram account) and they came up with an interesting conclusion:
Exactly 9 months before Dwyane Wade’s son was born (by a woman who’s NOT his fiancee) … Wade and Gabrielle Union were still acting like they were very much a couple … and TMZ has the proof.
We broke the story … Wade’s baby mama Aja Metoyer gave birth to Dwyane’s son Xavier on Nov. 10. Wade claims the two were on a “break” at the time.
But on February 5th (9 months before the birth), Gabrielle was Instagramming about Wade … posting a photo of the NBA star cuddled up with her dog Sasha along with caption, “Sasha don’t play when it comes to her man… ‘Down to ride ’til the very end, it’s me and my boyfriend.'”
A couple of days before that (on Feb. 1), Gabrielle posted a romantic photo of the couple together from a photo shoot for a “Flashback Friday.”There’s more … on February 19th, Gabby posted another pic of Dwyane holding one of her scripts … with the caption, “It takes a village to help an actress learn her lines… @dwyanewade takin a break from his Gatorade commercial to give me a line reading. Thanks coach”
The patter continues until April … when Gabby stopped posting pics of Dwyane and started posting a bunch of sad cryptic quotes. One reads, “We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending.”
Another says, “Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been, to stand up taller than you ever were.”
But on May 16, Wade returns to the picture … with Union posting a photo of the couple, along with the caption, “I like this dude.” One would assume it was right around this time that Union decided to take him back.
Which basically means that Dwyane Wade was fooling around on Gabrielle when they were very much together, and when Gabrielle found out that Aja was pregnant (around April), Gabby and Dwyane did split up briefly, only to get back together within a month. So, how much did Gabby know and when did she know and does she just accept the fact that Wade is going to fool around on her a lot? Ugh.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Call me old fashion or whatever you want but I think it is sick that men will NOT take care of their own birth control and that women will make babies for cash. I have no respect for people who play this stupid game and then wonder how their kids get so effed up.
I agree. So irresponsible on everyone’s part. And don’t tell me it’s ok to use children that way just because they can afford it. That women is obviously setting herself up for life by sleeping with every rich man that will hold still and having their child. Crass and money grabbing of her, stupid of them.
Ah, but it’s every person’s “right” to create life for the sole purpose of cashing a check/proving to the world how virile you are!
I bet Aja Metoyer makes more a month than I do, so I guess I’m the fool…
No fool you.
Nailing down a baby annuity is all these women are doing and the men are perfectly fine with it.
This is the craziest mess! Clearly the man doesn’t use protection and that would be the bigger issue. He’s a cheater, plain & simple. I guess I don’t understand why this is up for public consumption? Why is anyone digging around and releasing this info?
You do know condoms are only 75-80% effective, right? That means statistically it could fail as often as 1 in 5 times. He could have been using a condom and it failed. I think the bigger issue is he’s a cheater.
@Lucinda: This!
Condom effectiveness is higher than usually thought, and if you use them consistently and correctly, effectiveness increases. Typical condom use results in effectiveness between 82 and 90 percent. Perfect condom use increases effectiveness to 98 percent.
Perfect condom use = use quality condoms (nothing that has been sitting around for months), use every single time intercourse is attempted, put the condom on correctly and wear it throughout intercourse.
I don’t mean to jump on you, but when the “low” effectiveness of condom use is bandied about, it sounds as if you shouldn’t even bother. Condoms are also the best defense against most STDS (although not perfect, of course).
I highly doubt condoms were used in this case, though. Just don’t think it happened.
He could also have honest conversations with the women he cheats with and find out if they were using birth control. I know this is hard to fathom but he could even *gasp* not have sex with one woman while he’s about to marry another.
If condom failure accounted for all 3 of her children with wealthy, famous men, this lady must be the luckiest/unluckiest person alive. She should play the lottery – although she already has and won, in a way.
No the bigger issue is that he isn’t using protection clearly these rich idiots think they’re immune to Aids/HIV.
This!!! Exactly!
This!!! Exactly!
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. I grew up in the Chicago area, and the word at the time was this happened with Michael and Juanita Jordan. He didn’t marry her until after the first child was born, and it was bandied about in the press he only married her after she filed a huge palimony suite. They were married for a long time, so maybe it wasn’t so bad. Juanita got good press in Chicago, so I never quite believed she deliberately got pregnant.
That was a different situation all together-somewhat closer to Lebron and Savannah/ Kobe and Vanessa than this Dwyane and Aja mess. Michael and Juanita were together for years before they got married, engaged and unengaged at least once, and he married her without a prenup. She also was making her own money. She was a model and worked for the American Bar Association in a pretty decent position. I really think she works now, too. Real estate development maybe? Something-anyways, she’s not just sitting at home enjoys his money.
I thought J Jones son was Xander, not Xavier.
CR: You’re right. JJ’s baby is Xander. And how do we know her baby was a “whoopsie”?
I don’t think any of the babies mentioned in this post were whoopsies.
Because the father whom she hasn’t named supposedly was/is married. And yes JJ’s baby’s name is Xander.
Just bc the father was/is married doesn’t mean that the baby wasn’t planned.
So she planned to have a baby with a married man? Who does that?!
Someone looking for an 18 year free pass.
Wrong spot.
The way you get a man is the way you lose him.
No one deserves to be cheated on; I just refuse to feel to badly for a woman who engaged in a relationship with a married man.
He’s an athlete and she’s no exception to the rule.
Basically, if she likes it then I love it.
I agree Maria. I have zero sympathy for Gabrielle. She knows exactly what she’s getting. I think she’s just as much a gold-digger – why else would she stay with him except for all the perk$?
Spot on @Maria! (It’s easy to have a giggle at her expense but I can’t in good faith say I “love it” only because there is now a child involved in this whole mess.)
A professional baby mama. I’d say she should come with a warning label, but condoms are inexpensive and portable.
Exactly.
More like a celebrity f*cker her parents must be proud….
I think he’s a cheater, flat out. When he got with Gabby it was a little fishy, so what do you expect? I think Gabby will look the other way a lot. I think the status of being his partner is too important and she’s back on the radar again. Which is what you want being an actress.
This is some shady shit. And this guy is a douche nozzle, plain and simple. I feel bad for Gabrielle (because let’s face it ladies, it must’ve come as quite a shock) but were I in her shoes, I would have kicked his sorry, worthless, cheating, shitbag ass to the curb.
Didn’t January Jones name her son Xander?
These wealthy men are idiots! Women like Aja are waiting for the golden meal ticket. These women continually give it up hoping for a pregnancy. Big child support payments and they don’t have to work a day in their life. Aja has managed to do it three times! She definitely knows the game!
“Aja has managed to do it three times! She definitely knows the game!”
And so does her sister. Who also has a baby with another NBA player.
Oh God. Didn’t know world class dolla dolla bills y’all ho-ing ran in families. Barf.
It boggles my mind how these groupies KEEP getting knocked up by these celebrities/athletes. If you have unprotected sex with a woman, you run the risk of her getting pregnant. If you have unprotected sex with one of these “professional baby mamas” you HAVE to know that the risk of her getting pregnant is great and you’ll be in for thousands and thousands of dollars for at least 18 years. Women like this HAVE to be well know among these men, so why take the risk? I know there’s “the power of the P”, but over common sense? Over your relationships? Over your families? Come on!
Ludacris cheated on his girlfriend and got a woman pregnant.The baby was born Dec 9.TMZ has court documents he filed regarding child support.Maybe he didnt cheat maybe they were on a “break” too.
BTW Luda is on vacation with his longtime girlfriend/ rumored fiance right now with Kevin Hart and his GF.Kevin hooked up with his GF when he was married to his ex wife.
Right on @Jaye! You have just expressed every thought that I have felt over this completely inexplicable phenomena in recent years to perfection (Simon Cowell, Jude Law, Pauly D, James Marsden, Emille Hirsch, and now D. Wade just to name a few). UGH.
Agreed.
If you must sleep around then do the math you arrogant fools! Effective contraception today vs. 18 years of court-ordered child support.
Easy one : it’s because brain is not their bigger muscle
This is just nasty !
And who suffers? The kids. Kids suffer because of stupid men and selfish women and they suffer watching their parents have kids with lots of different people. Use birth control!! And Gabrielle, dump this guy, apologize to his ex-wife and kids, and move the hell on.
@Jennifer EXACTLY. My main concern is the poor children in this stupid situation. Dwade, Gabby and whoever else will definitely suffer because of the mess they’ve made but I do NOT feel sorry for them. I just feel bad for the innocent children that have been brought into this.
Totally agree.
What really makes me sick is that a lot of athletes, celebrities, etc; have baby mamas… Which means that they have unprotected sex with a great number of women, who probably also have unprotected sex with a great number of people in order to get pregnant as fast as they can and get the child support money. Have they ever heard about STDs? It’s not because AIDS is manageable these days that it’s not deadly anymore. And the other STDs can lead to a bunch of serious health issues, and I’m not even talking about the physical discomfort.
Those women sacrifice their pride, their bodies, and the life of their children, who grow up fatherless for the most part, just for 18 years of relative financial stability (when the guy doesn’t stop paying, or go broke, or whatever). I find it really disgusting.
I was thinking the same thing. Some STDs are the gift that keeps on giving every month.
You’re not alone. Not only are these idiots risking and possibly spreading STD’s, they’re perpetuating the standard that it’s ok to cheat on your spouse/ SO and have splintered family units. WTF does this say to their children? And don’t even get me started on this Aja ho. With a woman this sleazy, I hope these guys have had DNA testing. Guess I’ll google a picture of her to find out what makes her baby-maker so freaking irresistible to these idiot men. Everyone in this scenario is skeevy. I feel bad for Gabby, but not so much if she got Dwayne the same way.
“18 years, 18 years
She got one of yo’ kids, got you for 18 years”
Just UGH.
NOININ
January 1, 2014 at 10:41 am
What really makes me sick is that a lot of athletes, celebrities, etc; have baby mamas… Which means that they have unprotected sex with a great number of women, who probably also have unprotected sex with a great number of people in order to get pregnant as fast as they can and get the child support money. Have they ever heard about STDs? It’s not because AIDS is manageable these days that it’s not deadly anymore. And the other STDs can lead to a bunch of serious health issues, and I’m not even talking about the physical discomfort.
Those women sacrifice their pride, their bodies, and the life of their children, who grow up fatherless for the most part, just for 18 years of relative financial stability (when the guy doesn’t stop paying, or go broke, or whatever). I find it really disgusting.
*BRAAAAVOOOO…..BRAAAAAAAVOO
OOOO* WELL SAID!!!
These people aren’t related, but it feels like some weird incestuous relationship. Everyone is sleeping around with everyone.
Alas Gabrielle Union seems to be really in love with Dwayne. She looks amazing yes, but the reality is that she’s 41 and knows it. And here’s someone who is famous and wealthy beyond belief so she probably feels as though she has to suck it because if they marry and that doesn’t work, she’ll end up with some sort of trophies of her own (i.e. Khloe Kardashian 7-million settlement)
She’s 41???!!??
She looks amazing, I assumed early 30’s. wade is an a-hole she should drop that dude, it makes me sad to see women put up with that.
I kind of agree with you. I don’t think GU realized what she had going for her before this whole mess–a steady (if not red hot) career, decent money, a lot of good buzz, and the ability to bitch slap Father Time, year after year. I think she fell for this fool (and his wealth and fame–he ain’t a plumber, after all), and went after him, regardless of his wife and kids. I think she thought that after enough time, especially if they got married, the scandal would blow over (which, to be fair, it does for some celebrities). Now, she’s kind of stuck. She has ruined the goodwill she had with everyone but her most die hard fans because she looks like a desperate slore, she’s spent more time chasing this man than reviving her career, and this fool can’t keep it in his pants (or keep his cheating quiet). I don’t feel sorry for her at all though, because she made this bed.
Hope she has a good supply of penicillin in her nightstand
Gabrielle has always come off to me as very sensible and classy. So why is she putting up with this? I’d be out the door the second that I discovered that my bf had a child with another woman (not to mention a possible second one). Very disappointing. Hopefully these two never make it down the aisle.
Unfortunately, this whole situation just shows Gabrielle’s lack of self esteem. Too bad, she’s a beautiful, talented woman who now will never have piece of mind that her husband-to-be will keep it in his pants. What a way to live.
She was having an affair with Wade while he was still with his wife and children. Not a classy woman in my book.
There are tweets online that Wade sent to this lady Aja Metoyer on Mother’s Day as part of his shout out to strong women raising kids. So Gabby had to have known about her for a while. She is taking the ring as some type of prize.
Because she’s NOT sensible or classy. Talk to any one who has dealt with her – she’s loud, uncouth trash. She was very well aware of Dwyane’s wife when they got together, and after they got divorced, she helped pack some of Siovaughn’s stuff and would regularly rub her relationship with Dwyane in everyone’s faces. She constantly takes subliminal shots at Siovaughn on Twitter. Think of her as the LeAnn Rhimes of the NBA.
There’s so much more to come out but Gabby knew and she more than likely won’t leave him. Rumor has it – they swing together and Gabby has “no problem” with his cheating. The problem with THIS was that cheating produced a baby and caused scandal and the ring she’s been begging Wade for (and using his sons to pressure him for) was the “I’m Sorry” gift. That’s why the engagement was announced before the baby was even though they’ve known about the baby since March. They tried and tried and tried to spin this from the very beginning. Wade even planted the “we were on a break” seed right after they found out about Aja being pregnant. And btw, Aja comes from a line of gold digging women. Both her sister and her mother have children by wealthy/famous men.
You speak as if you have a personal relationship with these people.
I never knew much about this Gabrielle woman before but she has been in a lot of news lately and I’m already having a negative impression of her.
Man, the stars of the Heat are something else.
Its long been rumored that LeBronn fathered a child on a former Ohio newscaster who was subsequently driven out of Akron because of it. His family man image with his HS sweetheart and now wife is just that.
Douchebag chris bosch was living with his babymomma and former fiance, when he abruptly dumped her and kicked her out of their home..while she was pregnant!
He spent millions of dollars on lawyers and establishing his residence in a small TX town all in effort to make sure his ex received the barest minimum in child support. Chris Bosch in 2011, 2012 and 2013 made minimum 14 mil dollars a year, and last I checked his ex receives about $2000/mo in child support. in 2012 it came out that the x had lost her job due to the recession and was applying for welfare after her UE benefits ran out. Bosch got lambasted in the media for his pittance of support compared to his income. Meanwhile, the kids he has with his wife were laished with gucci cribs. Last I checked, he is suing for custody.
Doucheness just seems to be prevalent in that locker room!
I read about how Chris Bosh treated his ex. Smh. He is just awful.
I hope his wife is taking notes because if they ever divorce, he’ll do the same to her
F-ck him. I can’t stand men who don’t want to pay their child support. My sperm donor (after not having to pay child support for 12 years) said that if my mom sent him to court, for child support, then we would never have a relationship. And this is after my mom tried to settle it privately, only asking for a hundred dollars a month (for TWO of us)–and he said no.
But my sperm donor is also a serial cheater. When he got my mom pregnant, he had lied to her about not being married (she was in the military and stationed abroad)—he already has five kids w/his wife, and he has another 11 kids (not including me and my twin)…
Omg, I had no idea. My 14-year-old son is a huge hoops fan and looks up to these guys. Of course he has no idea how far they truly are from being role models and I didn’t really either until reading about D Wade here these past couple days. It makes my stomach turn.
I don’t believe Dwayne and Gabrielle cheated. He and his wife were already separated when they got together. The wife was hurt that Dwayne moved on so quickly, so she helped spread the cheating rumors to get back at them both.
Well, TMZ dug up the dirt and nailed it… I don’t know if I could get over something like that… I’m so paranoid with using condoms and everything (probably meaning I have trust issues) that knowing my man:
A) cheated on me
B) didnt bother to wear protection
I think the latter would have been the deal breaker, honestly. A dude that cant hold his pants AND wear protection.
yup.
The baby was born in early Nov. but it wasn’t until end of the year that he acknowledges his new son. Was he waiting for the results of a paternity test?
Yes he recently got the results of DNA test.
whats so sad is that there are lots of loving, stable couples out there who try everything to get pregnant and fail and those women always seem to get pregnant five minutes after meeting those men…
THIS! ^^^
Too many damn kids…
GU will probably have a clause in her prenup, that if he cheats, she will get a lot more money, than if they just break up….
he’s an athlete, of course he cheats. i think right now she’s riding the wave of his success, they’re young, attractive, living in Miami, his team is winning championships. once all that attention dies down, they age, things will get dull and they’ll both move on to something else.
It s a New Year…..I wish the term babby mama would die out for good.
What is wrong with people? That is disgusting. First, having children with multiple women, secondly not using any protection, thirdly cheating on someone, fourthly remaining with a man who cheated on you ! Come on Gabby, are you really that desperate?
This all just rings as so, so dirty to me. I never believed that Wade cheated on his ex with Gabby-I genuinely believed that the two were broken up before they got together-but now I’m not so sure…
As I wrote in my post yesterday, children deserve SO much more than all this. I’m 30 and it breaks my heart that the message being put out there to the young generation by those my age and older’s words & actions seems to be that protection doesn’t matter, pregnancies “just happen”, and (completely inexplicably) that children aren’t at all negatively effected by being the products of affairs (Simon Cowell’s situation is no better than this as far as I’m concerned), one night stands or random hookups between relative or total strangers. Why is this becoming so commonplace these days??
I’m not even talking marriage here but rather relationships and commitment. We see the negative effects of/for babies being born of this casual hookup culture every day in the news and sometimes in our own neighborhoods. (Never mind the spread of STDs). Really unfortunate…
Bravo!
it’s a shame none of these women have any self esteem.
Nothing related but TMZ is reporting than James Avery has died !
RIP Fresh Prince of Bel Air’s father.
You will be missed.
Could we retire the phrase “the way you got him is the way you’ll lose him”? I cringe at the idea that men are prizes to be fought for and won (or lost). Men are just humans like us, and sometimes there’s a connection and sometimes there isn’t. The very idea that a woman could manipulate a man into cheating just reinforces misogynist stereotypes about desperate competitive women. I think our new phrase should be this: “No man who has to be fought for is worth having.”
Having said that, USE BIRTH CONTROL. That is a gender neutral concept. I can’t even fathom a woman using her reproductive organs to “trap a man,” and bringing a child into this world for any reason other than a sincere desire to raise a child – but what kind of idiot man has unprotected sex with a woman he barely knows?
Stupidity needs to be treated as a misdemeanor, involving fines and community service.
“Could we retire the phrase “the way you got him is the way you’ll lose him”? I cringe at the idea that men are prizes to be fought for and won (or lost). Men are just humans like us, and sometimes there’s a connection and sometimes there isn’t. The very idea that a woman could manipulate a man into cheating just reinforces misogynist stereotypes about desperate competitive women.”
That’s not what the saying means, though. Basically it’s warning people (doesn’t necessarily have to be women) that if someone cheats WITH you, they’ll cheat ON you.
Well, they are all over 21 and their own stupidity will come back to bite them in the ass in the long run. But I do feel bad about kids being used as bargaining chips. What’s really irritating is the ridiculous earnings these guys make. I realize their careers are short but it’s way out of proportion to what they are giving back to society (aside from random sperm product). The public just reinforces them to behaving this way. The best one can do is choose not to buy their endorsement products.
It seems like all these relationships that started as affairs around the same time are having to reap what they sow. Tori, Gabrielle , leann maybe?
This whole saga is sickening. Mr. Wade is not true to the ex-wife, Gabrielle, or the baby moma. He is the product of his environment. Just because he has money, it doesn’t exempt him from his deceiving ways. Wade is an unlearned brother with mental/emotional internal issues. “Hurting people hurt others”. He has unspoken conflict within himself. His press report makes nonsense. What a dagger to Gabrielle for him to announce the baby is a blessing through their pain. That should have been a private thought. He is so care less….even in his choice of words. This man is a rich mess! (Just going through society hurting women).
Gabrielle is not innocent. When she thought she was on top…..(against his ex-wife), she was all grins. I never agreed with how she flaunted all over magazines with Wade and his sons…..and throwing slander at his ex-wife. In their photos….. Wade never looked as happy as she did. She was not paying attention. He always had a stone face….like I am just going through the motion.
I knew something was up when he accepted his award on the soul train award and she stayed seated in the audience with that fake smile on her face. That was worth a thousand words!
Again, this whole thing is a hot mess. Our black society need to wake up!
This is not an issue exclusive to the black community.
So many white girls in our community are hooking up and having babies with married men that it seems like an epidemic. Meanwhile, teenage birth rates are down. Thank Heavens for silver linings.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-rate-for-teenagers-reaches-new-low-in-us/
See above
everyone needs to mind their business. People make mistakes. it is what it is. let wade and gabby deal with this. hope all turns ouit well
As soon as celebs stop flaunting their business in the public eye, we’ll all stop commenting on it.
Wasn’t a statement issued about the birth of the child? Once it’s out there for public consumption, people are going to comment. If celebs wanted folks to stay out of their business, they shouldn’t put their business on front street.
Lol. Does that mean Dwayne Wade and Damon Wayans are family now? Also funny that both guys initials are DW.
ugh too confusing for me. I’ve read this article twice and I still don’t know who’s who.
Boo to athletes who think cheating on their partners is OK, boo to their clubs for portraying them as role models when they’re actually not, and boo to women purposely getting pregnant to get a big pay day. Just stoopid all round.
To echo Bill Cosby, “Come on people!” Fifty years after the March on Washington, THIS is the best we can do? Why have we allowed such an awful “norm” to be created? At 54 am I really that old and lame because I miss the days when professional athletes took pride in being gentlemen? Even if they were not, they dam sure knew the expectation, so they faked it, even if only to keep their jobs. Do you think that if the NBA and other professional sports associations and/or major sponsors threatened to drop team members who were professional hoes, that this foolishness would continue? But they won’t ever do that as long as our community continues to stand in lines for hours for sneakers instead of demanding accountability for those whom the sneakers are named for. Boycotts worked in the past. Go to no more Heat games until Wade publicly apologizes and admonishes young black males to NOT imitate him. I know, there aren’t enough people on board to make this happen. Just an “old”person who lives in the the Proud Ratchet city and is so sad about how low our race has sunk
What does the march in Washington have to do with anything? Everything that happens regarding a black person in the press is automatically not a racially-charged incident and because these people choose to live their lives in a certain way it does not mean it is a bad reflection on ALL black people. I really despise it when one black person decides to speak for all of us. And really who are we the public to think that just because these black folks have a little money (or a lot of money) as professional athletes or entertainers then it somehow means that their behavior is supposed to be role-model perfect…first and foremost parents need to be role-models for their children and next comes the community and as a parent I can lead my child and instill good values but even with that a person cannot force anyone to follow a path. I don’t think MY race has sunk low at all…I’m very proud to be a black woman. It irks me to hear any black person say that we make ourselves look bad and this is why people treat us badly and all that other cockamamie nonsense because a black person should not have to behave a certain way to be respected. That is slavery-minded backwards self-hating crap. We are human beings and we deserve respect just like every other human being on Earth. All of the black people being foolish and behaving badly on television are bad reflections of THEMSELVES not ME or anyone else and certainly not the entirety of black America. And it is just a trend, just like a whole lot of television trends (Paris who?) and will go away as soon as people find something else to pay attention to. Moving on…
Gabrielle does not have a bit of class, sophistication or self-esteem. Any person who has an affair with a married man and makes a spectacle of herself as she flaunts it in front of his not-yet-ex wife with a bombardment of magazine articles and photo-shoots of the two all boo’d up is not classy or sophisticated and certainly not the paradigm of high self-esteem. She is just a nasty little mean girl. Dwayne Wade and Siohvaughn (who is also a piece of work and probably a few beers short of a 12-pack but as far as I know there’ve been no reports that she was unfaithful and she was his highschool sweetheart so this is probably why she took this all hard) were not separated when Gabby and Dwayne started traipsing around together publicly and his wife pushed the divorce papers when Dwayne gave her a STD. It’s also been said that she attempted to befriend the wife and there’s a whole bunch of other shadiness. All this messiness has been shouted about for years on the more urban-themed blogs (black interest).
Dwayne Wade ain’t about nothing and neither is Gabrielle Union. One particularly distasteful media blitz of the two was an Ebony magazine freaking cover photo and she was hanging all over him with a smug smile as if she’d won the prize and I think the story had barely broke that his wife had filed for divorce citing she’d caught a STD from him and she named Gabby in the suit saying the Dwayne abandoned the family to run off with her and all this other craziness. Anyway, the inside article was all about these two professing their “love” for each other and Gabby was whining about being called a home-wrecker and how it affected her image and she’s hugged up on this man who is not divorced from his wife. So I have no respect for her and definitely no respect for him. I don’t believe for one minute that they were on a break when this Aja became pregnant. I feel really badly for all of the kids mixed up in the nonsense. Gabrielle is getting what she gave and as the saying goes: when a man marries his mistress, he creates a vacancy. I hope she doesn’t think she will be any different.
April …I agree with you 1000%. You said it right. Your statement should be posted all over. It makes more sense then anything I have read. This saga is embarrassing to any “society of people”…..it’s aggravating and plain nasty!
However, I do agree with Jade below. It’s is not a “black race” evil as I mentioned above. It’s is an “entire society thing”.
These kinds of comments irk me. I said it upthread, this is NOT an issue exclusive to the black community. I know and am related to a lot of black men who are not planting their seed in every receptive womb they can find. It’s unfair to paint an entire race that way. It’s as bad as a non-black person making the same assertion. And I’m almost certain that if a non-black person made the assertion that you are, you’d be fit to be tied. There are male slores impregnating women arbitrarily of ALL races. This is a societal issue, not a racial one.
Gabrielle is facing the reality of age. She’s 41. She may look younger but she wants to be set for life. Marrying Wade who’s 31 and has lots and lots of money is a sure thing.
For a guy who lives to phuck around I don’t get these athletes. Just STAY SINGLE! What’s the big deal? People know you’re a nasty, unprotected douche with baby mamas but why perpetrate with a “wife”
That’s what I’m thinking too – the “break” happened, but only after she found out about the pregnancy.
I feel bad for the kids in situations like this. At least it sounds like she and DW Jr had a relationship, not just a whoopsie.
I didn’t realize it was Daman Wayans’ son playing the role of Brad in Happy Endings. I loved him in that show. He and the actress that played his wife had great chemistry and were so funny. I miss that show and can’t believe it went off the air.
I’m not going to slam Gabrielle for this. Everyone has their own conditions and limits in relationships. It appears that both sides are on the same page so do as you please, adults. Just don’t call foul later.
As for the child involved, Dwayne Wade has full custody of his other two children as well as custody of his nephew. This kid isn’t even two months old, lives in another state and he’s already seen him several times. Nothing about him screams deadbeat dad to me and Gabrielle is obviously not throwing a fit about him getting involved. So whatever skanky shadiness happened with the conception, now the boy is here and it sounds like he is going to be both financially taken care of as well as having an involved father. Wade also isn’t keeping him pushed off to the side- he told the world about him and that he’s proud to have him. Yes their cover story was easily proven bullshit but I think this story is getting a lot more shade than it deserves at this point.
I can’t imagine that Gabby is content when she lays her head on her pillow at night. The money may be great, but there is this thing called dignity….
This girl is a professional groupie. It’s so sad that this young lady only joy in life is creating babies with rich celebrity men who she never plan to marry. I pray for the kids, we are really living in some trying times. The devil is busy, then we wonder why there are so many std’s going around. The second generation of Wayans need to get married and stop having kids without trying to be in a committed relationship.
I guess the baby moma…..Aja can be a good example for her daughters. (Lol). In today’s society….looks like the hood rats rule. Back in the day….women had babies by dead beat men…..therefore could not collect a dime.
Who says morals and values win? Something to think about.
Athletes need to recognize that when you are in the public eye and you have negative stories written about you, they will last forever on the internet. Especially if those stories go viral. Opportunities will be closed to you based on all off the negative publicity swirling around you. Mr. Wade this drama was definitely ridiculous and preventable.