Kehlani Gave Birth to a Baby Girl Named Adeya

Looks like Jaboukie Young-White is officially a guncle.

Mikelle Street

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.

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Over the weekend, singer Kehlani gave birth to her first baby girl, according to her Instagram.

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"This weekend our angel arrived healthy & perfect in every way in our bathroom at home," she wrote. "Unmedicated homebirth was the absolute hardest yet most powerful thing I've ever done. Thankful beyond words. In love beyond comparison. Refraining from posting to be [with] family and rest, we just wanted to say thank you who sent well wishes, love, and support in all forms while waiting & working to bring Adeya earthside." Unmedicated homebirth?!?! A woman of strength and power!

Kehlani announced her pregnancy back in October. Tweeting "SHE DONT WANNA HIDE NO MO," she posted photos of herself four months into her pregnancy, luxuriating in the sun. At the time she also disclosed that she was expecting a daughter and that her very fine partner Javie Young-White was her "best friend and quite frankly the only man on earth I trust." Come to find out, it was the brother of someone we already knew: the also very fine comedian Jaboukie Young-White.

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After announcing her pregnancy, Kehlani was subject to criticism from people on social media wondering how a queer woman could possibly be in a relationship and have a baby with a man. Kehlani was quick to put them back in their place, reminding us that queerness is not something you prove, nor something you flunk out of. This was also something model Slick Woods discussed during her pregnancy.