Breakups happen! When it comes to several of the celebrity women we have ‘bump watched’ over the course of the 8 years of this blog’s existence, they’re not interested in sticking it out for the baby when the relationship heads south.
And thus, not only is BellytichBlog an institution that chronicles celebrity births, it also is a memoriam, of sorts, to relationships that once were. A significant number of pregnancies we’ve bumpwatched from pregnancy through birth were part of unions that have since dissolved.
The most recent is Idris Elba and his make up artist Naiyana Garth who reportedly just broke up. The couple welcomed their first child together in April 2014.
And the breakups aren’t always pretty.
Just this week, songstress and model Ciara filed a $15 Million defamation lawsuit in response to comments her ex hip hop artist Future has said about her in the media, traditional and social media.
Last week, Amber Rose found herself caught in the middle of a Twitter beef between Kim Kardashian‘s husband Kanye West and her ex Wiz Khalifa. West mentioned Rose and Wiz’s son Sebastian and Rose had to go off on him, revealing some intimate deets about their sex life when they were together, obviously to embarrass him and teach him a lesson about dragging her into his social media fights.
“I wouldn’t have said anything if it was just between him and Wiz,” Rose said on theAllegedly podcast. “That’s two grown men hashing it out. That’s their business. I would have kept it cute and just minded my business, but you don’t bring in my baby. That’s so corny.”
She and Kim posted the same “usie” on their respective social media accounts to signal the truce.
Here is a list of 30 of our past featured women who have since parted ways with their respective significant other who they procreated a child with.
- Halle Berry
- Mariah Carey,
- Jennifer Lopez
- Jennifer Garner
- Gwen Stefani
- January Jones
- Selma Blair
- Sienna Miller
- Kate Hudson
- Kourtney Kardashian
- Heidi Klum
- Megan Fox
- Christina Milian
- Kelis
- Eva Marcille
- Ciara
- Amber Rose
- Blac Chyna
- Garcelle Beauvais
- Padma Lakshmi
- Lauryn Hill
- Kimora Lee Simmons(from Djimon Hounsou)
- Jill Scott
- Hilary Duff
- Fantasia
- Jamie Lyn Spears
- Lauren London
- Monyetta Shaw
- Golden Brooks (from Girlfriends)
- Tameka Raymond
Last Summer was a big heartbreak time with the breakups of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, Charlize Theron and Sean Penn and Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton.
Some celebs have broken up before the baby was even born: Christina Milian, Kelis, Heidi Klum and January Jones and many more split with their respective partners before they even gave birth.
Or shortly thereafter…. A couple of year ago, Ciara, Eva Marcille (nee Pigford) and Amber Rose split with their partners before each of their babies turned 6 months old. A few years ago, Selma Blair and her ex Jason Bleick split up 14 months after welcoming their first child together.
No matter what happens, most children grow up in wonderfully co-parenting situations and survive and thrive!