Teyana Taylor is a real triple menace, as a talented dancer, actress and singer, however most of all, her music is her key focus. Apart from 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 along with her albums VII, Okay.T.S.E., and The Album.
Outdoors of music, Teyana additionally had a long-term relationship with former NBA participant Iman Shumpert. The pair received married in 2016, and so they’re proud dad and mom to daughters Junie and Rue. Sadly, the pair introduced that that they had separated after seven years of marriage in September 2023.
In her earlier announcement on Instagram, Teyana introduced that regardless of the separation, they have been nonetheless devoted to co-parenting collectively. “We’re nonetheless the most effective of pals, nice enterprise companions, and are one hell of a group with regards to co-parenting our 2 lovely 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 lady on Dec. 16, 2015. Whereas she’s named after her dad and mom, she additionally has the lovely nickname Junie. The R&B singer revealed that Junie arrived a month early, and he or she didn’t know she was in labor in an Instagram submit, asserting her delivery. “She got here out as a beautiful shock to everybody,” she wrote. “It took two ten-count pushes with my fiancé taking part in Dr and he or she entered this world into his naked fingers.”
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 undoubtedly the most effective help I’ve ever recorded in my life. We have been certainly terrified till I lastly noticed her hair…then the concern left and I kinda simply knew what to do,” he wrote. “Individuals at all times inform me there is no such thing as a higher present than fatherhood and I lastly perceive the sensation.”
Through the years, 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, Necessities, and Worry of God.
Teyana opened up concerning the qualities of each of them they noticed in Junie in a 2017 interview with GQ. “She eats, sleeps similar to Iman. Identical 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 pals name me Jimmy Neutron. I’m at all times into devices and totally different stuff.”
Rue Rose Shumpert
Teyana gave delivery 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, pay attention, two and finished, 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 finished. 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 a giant sister in an interview with Individuals. ” Junie is ecstatic — I’m speaking tremendous ecstatic. All people is simply excited. I can’t wait,” she mentioned. “We wish to hold her as concerned as doable 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 dad and mom to each of their youngsters. The “Gotta Love Extra” singer shared that she threw a “Ruechella” themed occasion for her daughter’s second birthday in 2022. “Rueeeeeeeee’s 2!!! #Ruechella was littttttttt,” she wrote.
