Rapper Da Brat reveals she's pregnant at 48 after a long fertility journey: 'It's just a blessing'
Rapper Da Brat announced she's pregnant at the age of 48.
She and wife Jessica "Judy" Dupart have been trying to get pregnant for about a year.
A previous pregnancy miscarried a few days after they learned they were expecting a child.
Rapper Da Brat, whose real name is Shawntae Harris-Dupart, revealed on Tuesday that she's pregnant at the age of 48. She and her wife Jessica "Judy" Dupart, whom she married in February 2022, told People that they had started considering the idea of expanding their family around the time of their wedding.
"It's just a blessing. I'm excited!" Da Brat said.
She and Dupart explained that their fertility journey hasn't been easy. When Dupart, 41, was considering an egg retrieval procedure, she learned that she had blood clots in her lungs and an enlarged heart, which led to hospitalization.
Doctors told the couple that it would be easier for Da Brat to carry their child, but during the fertility journey, she discovered she had fibroids outside of her uterus that had to be removed. During another procedure, doctors also discovered polyps that had to be surgically removed.
After their first embryo transfer, Da Brat and Dupart learned that they were pregnant, but a few days later the pregnancy miscarried.
"We were so happy, happy, happy and then it was like depression," Da Brat said of the experience. "I had never been so excited about something I didn't even know I wanted and then I fell in love with the idea and then it was all snatched away from me."
The "Funkdafied" singer said that the second round of retrieval was more "serious" for her because she was more determined than ever for the process to work. But doctors were able to retrieve one of Dupart's eggs and Da Brat became pregnant again.
"I never thought I was going to have kids," Da Brat said. "I just thought it wasn't in the cards for me. I've had a great career, a full life. I felt like, because I didn't get pregnant earlier on, then it just wasn't going to happen for me."
But the rapper's relationship with Dupart changed a lot in her life, she explained. In March 2020 she told the world she was gay and in a relationship with Dupart.
In their latest interview with People, Da Brat said she came out because of Dupart. "I was never with anyone that made me want to share it with the world until I met this one," she said, pointing to her wife. "It was because of her and her inspiring me and me wanting to scream from the mountaintops that I found somebody that I am totally in love with and I don't want to hide it anymore."
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