Back in February, Lil’ Kim announced her pregnancy during a little interview with Us Weekly. I guess I sort of forgot she was pregnant though, because I was surprised to hear that she gave birth yesterday. First, let me say congratulations to Lil’ Kim. I’m glad she was able to get pregnant and carry to term, because… well, I wouldn’t have thought she would be able too. She’s had a lot of surgery, that’s what I’m saying, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if had some medical issues. But she gave birth to a little girl. Wait ‘til you hear the name.
Lil’ Kim has a lil’ princess of her very own! The “Haterz” rapper, 39, gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, on Monday, June 9, a source confirms to Us Weekly. Lil’ Kim welcomed her daughter at 9:58 a.m. EST in New Jersey, the insider tells Us. The newborn — named Royal Reign — weighed in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured 19.5 inches in length.
The rapper first revealed her pregnancy back in February. “I’m so excited! I can’t wait to be a mom,” the “Lighters Up” rapper told Us at the time. She noted, however, that she had no plans to slow down while pregnant. “I’m still going to work. I’m still going to be hardcore,” she said. “The baby has made me even more of a beast!”
This is Lil’ Kim’s first child. She has not yet revealed the identity of the baby’s father. ET was first to report Royal’s birth.
ROYAL REIGN. It would have bad if it was Royal Rain, but somehow Royal REIGN is worse. I just… can’t. I can’t.
As for the baby-daddy… Radar reported a few months ago that the father is a rapper named Mr. Papers. That’s all I really know about that.
Last thing – in May, Lil Kim had a baby shower and she had nearly $70,000 worth of stuff on her registry. Apparently, her guests only gave her like $2000 worth of loot though. Lil’ Kim was called “tacky” for asking for so much stuff, but I kind of understand it. One, it’s her first (and probably only) child. Two, I don’t think Lil’ Kim is all that well off. I’m guessing that she’s struggling financially. Maybe I’m wrong, but she seems like she lives way beyond her means and has been for more than a decade.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Well… Mr. Tenenbaum was a Royal. Still, Reign? I wonder if she watches that show.
Don’t insult Royal Tenebaum by associating him with this garbage.
At least it wasn’t Royal Purple Reign? Missed opportunity.
I can’t even look at pictures of what she’s done to her face. She was really pretty before this
I feel so bad for RR
Yup, is hoping she’d have a boy because with a girl, I worry her issues with beauty will be transferred over.
She was lovely prior to the surgery.
I won’t even touch that name.
She was never drop dead gorgeous, but she used to be so cute! Now she looks like Mad Madam Mim. Don’t people realize how aging all this work is? She looks like she’s pushing 60 now.
How could a person go from this:
http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2013/02/lil-kim-mulan.html
to this:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a500099/lil-kim-offers-fans-meet-and-greet-after-lovebox-no-show.html#~oGNnbt81D7pfb1
Why did her handlers let her do this? SHM.
She was a fine looking woman. Now she has the “Jackson” nose and her face looks like a Halloween mask.
Umm, both pics you can tell she’s messed with her face. The first one, she’s so overloaded w fillers, that’s why her eyes look so small. In the second pic, looks like the fillers have settled some. Too bad, Bc filler can look good. When I got some, no one suspected a thing, everyone just kept saying how great my skin looked. All these people going overboard have really ruined their faces.
Plus she’s had surgery around her eyes, why else would her eyes look Asian? Or is she part Asian and I don’t know it?
@ snowflake: When you scroll down the page in the first link, you’ll see her “original face” That’s when she sang/rapped “Crush On You” with Junior Maffia in the 90s.
@rice– that wasn’t even her original face. at that point she had already had her nose done.
I wonder what she sees in her mirror.
LOL! No kidding….
and 70K for a baby shower! I don’t know how I missed that when it was first reported but I just got my first laugh of the day!
i read somewhere (dlisted?) that her assistant was asking her fans to get stuff off her registry and mail it to the address on the invite. and she had some REALLY pricey stuff on there. insanity.
All I can be reminded of when I see this pic is of this little red fox we saw at the Austin zoo yesterday.
If she needs money, she should be suing the ass of the PS that messed with her face. Oh my god, it is worse than just about anything I have seen on the celeb plastic surgery spectrum.
Ikr
That face though….
And yea it’s tacky. She needs to learn to live within her means if she is struggling. Doesn’t sound like she registered at target. Babies don’t need 70k worth of stuff.
Really, just absurd. Baby things are expensive, but that’s just ridiculous. Tacky.
Well…good luck Royal.
Yup.
this is actually pretty tame considering what I imagine she was going to name her baby
And it’s spelt correctly, hallelujah!
Bronx Mowgli can relax knowing he’s still number one.
And let us not forget Kal-el Cage.
And let us not forget Kal-el Cage.
Mama wanted ‘Presidential Presidency’ but decided RR might entice Prince George more easily. ( Not sure why she omitted an adverb: Royal Reign Regally, c’est classy.)
Ugh. Not to the innocent little baby, but to everything else, including registering for $70,000 worth of baby stuff. And the duck lips. And the name. And the outfits. And the quotes. My fault for clicking, but ugh.
Yep…no class at all. I’m ashamed I clicked on this. Blech.
royal reign…….now thats class!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am I the only one who’s seeing an even worse version of Snooki in the last pic?
There is no way she’s 39. That means she would have been a young teenager when she first came out back in the day when Tupac was making hilarious raps about her. I think she’s closer to mid-40’s.
Kim will be forty July 11.
Is that you Kim? Are you lying about your age? Its ok, we all do it. 😉
The song Tupac did about her was in 1996. She would have been in her early 20’s.
Who will teach that little girl about self-esteem?
Good LORD, her face. She was so beautiful (if still plastic) before… but now? Yeesh ):
Beautiful? No — but definitely looked better before.
That face! Oy. So sad.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s funny that her child’s father is named Mr. Papers??? I guess they’re running out of names for rappers now…
It gave me a laugh. I think Mr. Papers is an awesome name!
All kinds of yes!!! I LOL’d when I read it:)
She should be ashamed of choosing such a ridiculous name.
Seems to be an epidemic among celebs. For some reason many of them cannot pick a normal name. But I guess it figures, after all these are people who must be noticed since their narcissism wont allow otherwise. So it just goes that their children would have names that will make people take notice, good or bad to them it’s the attention that matters.
If I live to be 100, I will never understand the extreme need for attention. Granted, the way I grew up attention was a bad thing, but these people are adults. Does anyone know why? What makes people so literally desperate for attention? What drives them and keeps them awake at night? I need paranormal girl.
Royal Reign ain’t that bad.
Well congrats Kim. She really was the best in her day and could spit fire. Maybe motherhood will be good for her.
Maybe if she stopped spending her money on plastic surgery, she could buy those items from the registry herself.
I met a woman at a hair salon in Baton Rouge who had named her daughter Your Highness. So Royal Reign doesn’t phase me. I wonder if it’s Roy-al or Ro-yal?
Jesus. Your highness.
No kidding. You’re just asking for trouble naming your kid that.
LMAO… I can’t believe someone named their kid “Your Highness”. What has the world come to.
Jermaine Jackson named his son Jermajesty. Then there’s MJ and his Prince Micheal X2.
In that pic with the pink coat she looks a bit like a glittery hobbit. Is she super tiny? I never noticed before.
She’s not tiny, she’s “L’il”. I think she’s only 4’10”.
Zing!!!
Royal Reign???? Oh for f-s sake. **huge eye-roll**
This +1000.
Dawn, I’ll see your 1000 and raise you a WTF?
Why do these idiot celebutards insist on saddling their kids with names that will guarantee a hellish grade/high school experience?
Heehee, her new face makes her look like she is about to sneeze.
Royal Reign isn’t that bad. As long as they don’t call her Roy.
Her face. Good god that’s such a sad thing to look at.
Her face! Lmao!
She looks terrible! I can’t even look at those photos!
Kim’s face looks crazy,but why would she have had “medical issues” and been unable to have a baby? That’s so odd.
Help me understand why her plastic surgery would affect her chances of having a child? Congrats to her and her family, wish them the best….btw, Bronx mowgli, pilot inspektor, and apple all sound more trashy to me than this name. Just saying.
Are you serious? A certain race? If your going to be an ignorant asshat then don’t half step.
Technically is Lil Kim still a celebrity?
also I wonder if her face hurts, cause it’s killing me.
Look on her face, what did she do. People need to learn to be happy in their own skin instead of all these surgeries that make many of them look worse than they did originally.
I wonder who will teach her daughter about self-esteem, surely won’t be her.
she could’ve taken all the surgery money, and be REAL RICH!
Royal Pain…poor child will forever be mocked.
I hope, for the child’s sake, RR will be raised by a level headed nanny, who will properly educate her. This little girl is going to need a proper role model, who knows how to make her subjects and verbs agree and can make complete sentences. This future nanny will need to have integrity and teach Kim’s child the true values of life and the importance of focusing on a well-rounded self. I have never really wished that a child be raised by their nanny more than the parent but in this situation, However, desperate cases call for desperate measures. I truly hope that that child is raised by the nanny more so than the mother. I also hope that the child will change her name to something more sensible when she is older
This reminds me of the chapter in ‘Freakonomics’ where they taught about the correlation between baby names and life outcomes etc. Apparently it is not uncommon for people to give their kids “aspirational” names like Prince, King, Princess, Highness etc., but – shocker – those kids rarely grow up to become CEOs or doctors.
I think that just makes sense. After all, people will assume the child is royalty, so it’s only rational to name it something that will make it apparent to all just in case some peasant were to assume it was appropriate to speak or make eye contact without first genuflecting. Her son will probably need an appropriate name as well, like “Duke Bustacap” or something. Same reasoning.