{"id":289529,"date":"2020-03-16T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1122450"},"modified":"2020-03-16T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T23:48:00","slug":"malika-haqq-gives-birth-to-her-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/malika-haqq-gives-birth-to-her-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Malika Haqq Gives Birth to Her First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.854497354497\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20.312169312169\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/malika_haqq\">Malika Haqq<\/a><\/strong> is officially a new mom!<\/p>\n<p>The reality star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1077681\/khloe-kardashian-s-bff-malika-haqq-is-pregnant-with-her-first-child?query=malika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced that she gave birth<\/a> to a baby boy named <strong>Ace<\/strong>&nbsp;on Saturday, March 14.<\/p>\n<p>She shared her newfound joy with the world on Monday, writing alongside a photo of her family&#8217;s hands, &#8220;Ace Flores 3.14.2020&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haqq first announced that she was expecting her first child with&nbsp;ex-boyfriend&nbsp;<strong>O.T. Genasis<\/strong> in September of 2019, and has been open about how her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/1080468\/why-khloe-kardashian-and-expectant-mom-malika-haqq-s-bond-is-now-tighter-than-ever?query=malika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">path to motherhood<\/a> has changed her for the better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason why I was so excited to learn that I was pregnant was because I knew that my life was going to change for the better, the greatest blessing that I&#8217;ve always wanted but didn&#8217;t know I was going to get, is finally here,&#8221; Haqq shared with her sister on their&nbsp;Facebook Watch show&nbsp;<em>Side by Side<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.179245283019\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.3632075471698\">\n<p>Haqq has always wanted to be a mom, but the path forward wasn&#8217;t always so clear. Before getting pregnant with her son, she had made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1092773\/malika-haqq-reveals-she-froze-her-eggs-a-year-before-getting-pregnant-while-in-love?query=malika\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision to freeze her eggs<\/a> in preparation for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deciding to freeze my eggs as a gift to myself on my 35th birthday was pretty hilarious now at this point because I have eggs in the freezer I may never use,&#8221; Malika said. &#8220;I made a baby in love and those eggs weren&#8217;t necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.73046875\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.0703125\">\n<p>Of course, Haqq&#8217;s famous bestie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/khloe_kardashian\">Khloe Kardashian<\/a><\/strong> has been by her side through the entire process. In fact, Kardashian was in charge of throwing her best friend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1120972\/see-inside-malika-haqq-s-lavish-baby-shower-with-bff-khloe-kardashian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lavish baby shower<\/a>, which she absolutely nailed thanks to celebrity event planner <strong>Mindy Weiss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.80376344086\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020113\/rs_634x1024-200213042430-634-malika-ot-IG-21320.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Malika Haqq, O.T. Genasis\" alt=\"Malika Haqq, O.T. Genasis\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"15.062670299728\">\n<p>Malika was thrilled with how the beautiful bash turned out. &#8220;I will remember this day forever&#8230;&#8221; Malika gushed on Instagram at the time.&nbsp;&#8220;Can&#8217;t wait to show my baby how many people love him.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And as her due date drew near, the mom-to-be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122810\/pregnant-malika-haqq-confirms-she-s-single-but-will-raise-son-with-ex-o-t-genasis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared her plans to co-parent<\/a>&nbsp;with O.T., who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1047942\/malika-haqq-and-rapper-o-t-genasis-break-up-after-2-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she split from<\/a> in 2019 after two years together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relationships don&#8217;t always work out the way we would hope but between love &amp; friendship we have created a baby boy that will be here very soon,&#8221; Malika shared with her followers. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been single the last 8 months but I am in no way alone. OT and I have attended every doctors apt and over all loved on our son together while anticipating his arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your new bundle of joy!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><i>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/i> returns Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122450\/malika-haqq-gives-birth-to-her-first-child?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malika Haqq is officially a new mom! The reality star announced that she gave birth to a baby boy named Ace&nbsp;on Saturday, March 14. She shared her newfound joy with the world on Monday, writing alongside a photo of her family&#8217;s hands, &#8220;Ace Flores 3.14.2020&#8221; Haqq first announced that she was expecting her first child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 18:55:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}