Who is Dwyane Wade’s baby mama, Aja Metoyer?
DWYANE Wade is known as a former American basketball player who spent most of his 16-year career with the Miami Heat.
Along with being a 3-time NBA champion, Wade is also a father of four; however, fans may not know about his other baby mamas besides Gabrielle Union.
Who is Dwyane Wade's baby mama, Aja Metoyer?
Aja Metoyer was put under the spotlight after it was revealed she was having a baby with former NBA star, Dwyane Wade, back in 2013.
The news came while he was on a break from his current wife, Gabrielle Union.
Outside of being known as one of Wade's baby mamas, Metoyer is also a reality TV star.
She was cast in the sixth season of VH1's Basketball Wives in 2017.
Metoyer has also taken up selling health and wellness products over the years through the company Total Life Changes.
Prior to her child with Wade, Metoyer had two children with her ex-childhood sweetheart, Damon Wayans Jr., whom she has called her "first love."
What did Gabrielle Union say about her husband's child with Aja?
At the time of the baby announcement, Union and Wade weren't married yet but were on a break.
On September 14, 2021, almost ten years after the birth of Xavier, Union opened up about her feelings in her memoir, You Got Anything Stronger.
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"To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience," Union wrote.
"I have not had words, and even after untold amounts of therapy, I am not sure I have them now. But truth matters."
In the book, Union opened up about her struggles with fertility which led her and Wade to use surrogacy for their daughter Kaavia, who was born in 2018.
She had previously suffered multiple miscarriages trying to have a child with her husband.
"The experience of Dwyane having a baby so easily [with Metoyer] while I was unable to—left my soul not just broken into pieces, but shattered into fine dust scattering in the wind," she continued.
"We gathered what we could to slowly remake me into something new. There was no way to disguise where I'd been glued back together.
"I can never know if my failure to carry a child put a ceiling on the love my husband has for me. Yes, I am Baby Mama number three, a label that is supposed to be an insult," Union said.
"If I am telling the fullness of our stories, of our three lives together, I must tell the truths I live with. I have learned that you can be honest and loving at the same time."
Union also revealed that "[Wade] wouldn't have become the man he desperately wanted to be, and I would not become the woman I dreamed of being," if it wasn't for their relationship struggles.
Along with Xavier and Kaavia, Wade is also the father to Zaire, and his daughter, Zaya, whom he had with his first wife, Siohvaughn Funches.
Wade also has custody of his nephew Dahveon Morris, whom he adopted in 2011.
In an interview on with Shannon Sharpe, Wade also touched on his infidelity and the challenges he and Union face.
"You know it's going to hurt someone that you have been building a relationship with and a life with.
"I couldn't have gotten through that moment without her sticking with me. It hasn't been perfect. It will never be perfect.
"At the end of the day, this is my family, this is my story. We are going to get through this however we get through it but, we are going to get through it."
What did Metoyer say about being called a "home-wrecker" by Wade's fans?
While Union has forgiven Wade and Metoyer, over the years, she has been labeled as a "homewrecker," because of her child with Wade.
Nonetheless, Metoyer has since spoken out and is well-known for not letting haters get her down.
In 2021, Metoyer sat down with to talk about her relationship with Wade and debunk rumors that her child with him was just a way for her to get famous.
She revealed she and Wade had been friends for over a decade prior.
"I think that a little bit of mathematics needs to be done. I've known the person ten years," Metoyer told the media outlet. "My son is not a break baby. He's almost four. Do the math."
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"I've never been a mistress, side chick, any of those things," she insisted. "I'm not a homewrecker... I wish I was a little Jezebel, you know? It might have worked out for me better that way."
She later revealed that she had been cheated on in the past and asked: "Why would I put that pain on someone else?"