Da Brat reveals she and her wife Jesseca “Judy” Dupart Harris are expecting.
The couple told PEOPLE that their journey to parenthood began last year after they tied the knot on Feb. 2.
“It’s been quite a journey,” says Da Brat, who admits that at 48, “there’s a lot of stuff we learned about women over the age of 40.”
Harris-Dupart, 41, is the CEO of Kaleidoscope Hair Products and was working on launching a new line inspired by her wife and her iconic braids and protective hairstyles. “It started as a joke, we were like, ‘We’re extending our family!’ ” she says of the tongue-in-cheek marketing tagline for their collaboration. “But then we got a huge response. It was like, ‘Oh my God do we want to actually have kids, and if we do, girl, we better hurry up!’ “
Harris-Dupart had three children before her relationship with the “Funkdafied” rapper.
“I never thought I was going to have kids,” Day Brat said of motherhood. “I just thought it wasn’t in the cards for me. I’ve had a great career, a full life. I felt like, because I didn’t get pregnant earlier on, then it just wasn’t going to happen for me.”
But then she met Harris-Dupart. “I started looking at life so differently,” Da Brat added. “I was like, I want a little me with you. Something special from the both of us that we can share and raise and love unconditionally.”
Da Brat admitted she was reluctant to carry the child, but her wife was able to coax her into the idea.
“I was like, nothing’s gonna come out of me!” Harris-Dupart was able to convince her otherwise. “We had a little tug-o-war in the beginning…but I felt like she should have the experience,” says her wife. “She is so nurturing.”
Da Brat says before this pregnancy, they suffered a miscarriage. “I had never been so excited about something that I didn’t even know I wanted,” says Da Brat. “I fell in love with the idea and then it was all snatched away from me.”
“Luckily,” she says, “we still had quite a few of her eggs left.”
The couple chose an anonymous donor who they described as “an eager entrepreneur” from their cryobank.
Da Brat is 18 weeks pregnant. “It’s just a blessing. I’m excited!” She’s also exhausted. “I don’t have any cravings or nausea,” she adds, “but I’m always sleepy. It’s crazy!”
