Gabrielle Union talks about Dwayne Wade Other Child

In an excerpt from his next book, You have something stronger, Gabrielle Union wrote about what it was like when Dwyane Wade had a child with another woman.

The couple has been together publicly since 2009 and got engaged in December 2013. Shortly afterwards, it was reported that Dwyane had just had a child, but not with Gabrielle.

“In 2013, before we got married, Dwyane had a baby with another woman,” Gabrielle wrote. “Needless to say, we weren’t in a good place at the time that baby was conceived. But we did so much better when he finally told me about the pregnancy.”

“To say I was devastated is to choose a word on a low shelf for convenience. There are people – strangers I will never know – who have been upset that I have not previously spoken of this trauma. I have had no words, and even after unprecedented amounts of therapy, I’m not sure I have them now, ”he added.

The experience especially affected Gabrielle, as she had been diagnosed with adenomyosis and had experienced “more miscarriages than she could safely count on.” As the couple considered surrogacy, she wrote, “Dwyane’s experience of having a baby so easily (while I wasn’t able to do it) left my soul not only shattered, but shattered. in fine powder that was dispersed by the wind “.

“So much about what made the decision so difficult was that if I didn’t undergo a surrogate pregnancy, I was convinced I had to let go of Dwyane. Even if he didn’t want to, I had to let him find someone who could give him the that he wanted “.

“But I loved him. Every day I had worked to be forgiven and I had decided to do it. And part of that journey of making peace with our love is also making peace with ourselves. I had come to accept it. without that a terrible collision in our lives: that moment of the Big Bang of our relationship that shaped our galaxy as we knew it, we would not have become the individuals we wanted to be, ”he continued.

In 2018, the couple welcomed their son, Kaavia, together through a surrogate. “I can never know if my failure to have a child put a roof over the love my husband has for me,” Gabrielle wrote. “Yeah, I’m Baby Mama number three, a label that’s supposed to be an insult. But the injury isn’t that label, but the asterisk next to my name?

Last year, Dwyane himself talked about what it was like to tell Gabrielle about having a child with another woman, saying, “I had a child with another person and I had to say it. The hardest thing I’ve ever had is to do man and tell Gabrielle Union I had a child with someone else. “

“When you keep something you know is going to come out and have that information and you know it’s going to fuck someone’s life, that you care, that you love, if it doesn’t hurt you, then it’s not human,” he continued.