Brooke Valentine is expecting her second child with husband Marcus Black.
The singer took to Instagram on Saturday to announce the news, sharing a video that showed off her growing baby bump.
“Loading,” she captioned the post.
The announcement comes just a week after Brooke and Marcus hinted that they had big news to share.
“Y’all asked… we answered. Our family is growing,” they wrote. “Yall know yall cousin @4everbrooke likes to go into hibernation in these seasons, but we’ve decided to bring yall on the journey with us. Follow it all on The Blackprint.”
The baby will join the couple’s daughter, Chi, whom they quietly welcomed in 2019. Brooke is also mom to son London, while Marcus is dad to daughter Brooklyn from a previous relationship.
Valentine has spoken candidly about the challenges she faced during both pregnancies.
“My pregnancies with London versus Chi, they were both high-risk for different reasons,” she said during a 2021 Mommy & Me segment. “With London, I had something called placenta previa, where the placenta is covering the exit, which is scary. So I had that with him. Then, with Chi, it was simply high-risk because of high blood pressure and my age.”
She said both pregnancies required her to step away from work and focus on her health.
“It was a lot,” she recalled. “It was stressful. My son is special needs [because] he had a stroke at birth. So London’s journey started right away. The journey of him being rehabilitated from this stroke started immediately. With Chi Summer, it was a bit different because she was totally fine. [She] just went on [while] I was in the hospital. She was waiting for me to get out.”
Despite the challenges, Brooke said she and Marcus still hoped to expand their family.
“I want more kids, but I think Marcus and I met too late,” she said at the time. “[Our relationship] developed pretty fast. So we didn’t get a lot of time to just be young and silly together. So we kind of have to wait until the kids grow up before we can just be nude on the beach.”
It appears that plan will have to wait as the couple prepares to welcome another addition to their family.
