Eve has revealed in her memoir Who’s That Girl? that she tragically miscarried a baby in 2006.
In an exclusive extract published by People, the former Ruff Ryders rapper detailed her pregnancy complications and the subsequent trauma and grief.
She wrote: “I told them all it was appendicitis. It was 2006, and I was still filming my Eve TV series, when I found out that I was pregnant. It was called a tubal pregnancy, where the embryonic sac ruptured in my one fallopian tube. It’s also known as an ectopic pregnancy. I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks.
“I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself. If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time. In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set.”
Eve also said she was frail following the emergency surgery: “I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail. I still had to walk red carpets during that time, and when I look back at pictures, I can see how skinny I was. Too skinny. And too much in denial.
“But it’s like I’ve said before, sometimes I did whatever it took to show up and get the job done … even if it was to my own detriment.”
The “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” hitmaker proceeded to discuss the emotional aftermath and eventually falling pregnant again: “For years, I never grieved losing my first baby. I didn’t know how to, but I eventually learned. I had to speak to that baby and acknowledge their existence.
“I had to forgive myself and know that what had happened wasn’t my fault, that I deserved to be a mother, and that I was ready to bring a baby into this world down here. And his name would be Wilde Wolfe.”
Eve welcomed her first child in 2022 with longtime husband Maximillion Cooper at the age of 43.
Announcing her baby’s birth on Instagram, Eve wrote: “Our Beautiful boy was born Feb 1st 2022. Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper. Words can’t describe this feeling.”