Actress Gabrielle Union (48), known from films and series such as “Bring It On” and “LA’s Finest”, has since 2008 been in a relationship with former NBA player Dwayne Jade (39).
Six years later, in 2014, they became husband and wife.
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Together they have a daughter Kaavia James Union-Wade, who was born in 2018 with the help of surrogacy.
From previous relationships Wade has children Zaire (19), Zaya (14) and Xavier (7). The latter became his father in 2013, just one year before he married Union.
The son was born while the couple had a break in the relationship, something the actor is now opening up about for the first time.
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– Have not had words
She does this in a text she has written in connection with Time Magazines voting for the 100 most influential people in the world.
There she writes, among other things, about the pain she had to go through when her current husband had a child with another woman. It was something she thought was especially difficult, when she herself tried to have children with Wade.
“It should not be necessary to say that we were not in a good place when the child was conceived. But we got much better when he finally told me about the pregnancy. To say that I was “crushed” is just to choose an easily accessible word for practical reasons “, she writes, and continues:
“There are people – strangers I will never meet – who have reacted to the fact that I have not talked about the drama before. I have not had any words, and after unimaginable amounts of therapy, I am not sure I have them now either.
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The actress recently revealed that she had been diagnosed with adenomyosis. It is a benign disease in which glands from the lining of the uterus sit in the wall of the uterus, according to Health Norway.
She has thus had problems with fertility, and has, among other things, had “eight or nine miscarriages”, she writes.
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“To experience that Dwayne could have a child so easily – when I could not – not only shattered my soul, but shattered it like fine dust scattering in the wind.”
In 2018, as mentioned, the daughter Kaavia was born via surrogacy, much to the delight of the couple.
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Had to man up
The former basketball player has previously opened up about the difficult conversation he had with his wife, when he had become the father of a child with another woman.
He did so in the ESPN documentary «D. Wade: Life Unexpected », reproduced by People, which came last year.
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– The most difficult thing I have ever done was to force myself to tell Gabrielle Union that I had had children with another woman. I could not sleep. I did not eat, he said at the time.
– When you keep something inside that you know is going to come out, and you have this information that you know is going to ruin someone’s life, that you care about and that you love. If it does not hurt you, you are not a human being, he continued.
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