Slick Woodswill soon be welcoming her first child with some surprising musical help.
“She’s a mommy role model. A mother I look up to, who kills her s— and is a boss-a— bitch,” Woods, whose real name is Simone Thompson, told the magazine’s September issue.
The style icon also revealed that she will be breastfeeding her son and plans to name him Saphir, a nod to the birthstone of his expected arrival month.
While most know Badu as a singer, the 47-year-old mother of three also moonlights as a birthing coach and has helped deliver more than 40 babies, according toEssence.
“It just kind of happens. I don’t plan how many people I work with. I don’t charge anything. It’s for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee,” she previously toldPitchfork.
“I naturally knew what to do, and it was then that I figured out that this was something I can do that makes me so fulfilled,” she continued.
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Woods, the muse behindRihanna’sFenty campaigns, announced her pregnancy in early July. “In good company,” she captionedher Instagram post, which shows her sitting poolside in a black-and-white striped swimsuit that shows off her growing bump.
source: people.com
