KJ Smith Shows Off Baby Bump on BET Awards Red Carpet
A beaming KJ Smith showed off her baby bump at the BET Awards in Los Angeles on Monday night.
The Sistas star, 40, channeled a Greek goddess in a flowing green gown. She walked the red carpet with her husband, Skyh Black, 37. At one point, an adoring Smith planted a kiss on his wife’s belly.
Smith and Black married in 2023 after meeting on the set of Sistas in 2020. Last month, they announced they were expecting their first child together in a Mother’s Day Instagram post.
KJ Smith thought she would be ‘a rich auntie’
Before she met Black, Smith didn’t think she wanted children.
“I didn’t want kids at all. I aspired to be a rich auntie,” she recently told Essence.
Rather than motherhood, Smith was focused on her career. She also has fibroids and polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can make it difficult to conceive.
“People told me the number one symptom of PCOS is infertility. Perhaps I had convinced myself that I didn’t want to have children because I knew that, so I had completely taken myself out of the motherhood race,” she said.
Smith’s fear that she wouldn’t be able to get pregnant was confirmed by a fertility specialist. But she ended up conceiving without assistance.
“I had an appointment to go back to that fertility specialist who told me I was infertile. I had an appointment in January to go back to that fertility specialist and start my IVF treatments, and I found out I was pregnant on January 19, 2025,” she shared.
Smith says it was her relationship with her husband that made her realize starting a family was something she wanted to pursue.
“I did not meet my husband until well into my 30s, so I had already decided,” she said. “And then when he came into my life, and you meet a man who is responsible and a leader who takes charge and wants to be a father, wants to have a family, my mind changed as we grew and as we became a couple and married.”
Unlike Smith, Black dreamed of becoming a parent.
“My biological father was very absent in my life,” the All the Queen’s Men star said. “So personally, it’s something that I’ve always looked forward to. It’s something that I’ve always dreamed of, how I was going to connect with my kid, or foster their dreams, so I’m elated.”
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