Gabrielle Union is 42 years old, so in reality she is Wade’s “Stella”, but it seems it would make sense she would want her own child with Wade who has 2 sons, a break baby and an adopted nephew.
Gabby spoke in detail though about how women who don’t have kids early in life are shamed by that fact and on having a baby with Wade. Do you agree with her reasoning?
“The reality is that women are discriminated against in the workplace for being mothers,” Union told Redbook. “As much as there are strides being made—you get pregnant, your career takes a hit. You can’t have a bad day. Don’t you dare cry at work. Don’t raise your voice. Especially if you’re a black woman in corporate America—now you’re ‘the angry black woman.’”
“So far, it has not happened for us,” Union said. “A lot of my friends deal with this. There’s a certain amount of shame that is placed on women who have perhaps chosen a career over starting a family younger. The penance for being a career woman is barrenness. You feel like you’re wearing a scarlet letter.”
A career woman isn’t barren because she can have kids if she wants, some women can not for medical reasons, so that was a poor choice of words, but her overall point has some merit.
She is running out of time though if she wants to have a kid.