genetic element that increases this tendency among African-American women.
“During her interview, Eve also spoke about the recent passing of her label-mate and friend, fellow rapper DMX, and said, ‘If he were here today, he would probably pray over my belly’”
“He would take my hands or he would pray for me.”
“One hundred percent, that would have been the first thing.”
Fellow entertainer, T-Boz, from the supergroup TLC, was also told she’d never be able to conceive.
“Doctors, they didn’t give me a happy ending,” T-Boz told CNN in 2011, reflecting on her brain tumor and her sickle cell anemia. “‘You won’t live past 30, you’ll be disabled your whole life. You’ll never have kids.’ I was looking around the room like, ‘I don’t know who he’s talking to cause that’s not my story.’”
Apparently, T-Boz was right, because she has a beautiful 21-year-old daughter, Chase.