The Real star Jeannie Mai and Jeezy welcome their first child together: 'Baby Jenkins is here'

The Real star Jeannie Mai said on Instagram Tuesday that she and husband Jeezy have welcomed their first child together.

'I asked God for a life of love and happiness,' Mai, 43, said in a post alongside a baby crib from the maternity ward. 'He sent me my family. Baby Jenkins is here.'

Mai and Jeezy, 44, wed last March in Georgia and she revealed they were expecting last September on The Real.

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The latest: The Real star Jeannie Mai, 43, said on Instagram Tuesday that she and husband Jeezy, 44, have welcomed their first child together. The couple was snapped in NYC last fall

She opened up at the time about her changing stance on parenthood.

'You know, I was like, I know exactly what I want, I know exactly what kind of woman I want to be, and I always said, "I'd never be a mom,"' she said. 'And there's so many reasons now that are coming to fruition as to why I would have said that then, but I do know that you never say never, and that love can really change you.'

She said that her husband made her realize that she's 'never really truly felt safe.

'And of course, it has to do with things that happened when I was younger, but when you know what feeling unsafe is like, that becomes your world. And falling in love with Jeezy, meeting someone who also didn't feel safe in their life, we began to really create a place where our happiness spelled out what safe looked like around us. 

Mai, 43, took to Instagram to make the special announcement on Tuesday
Mai was snapped in November at the Baby2Baby 10-Year Gala in Los Angeles

She continued: So, as soon as you feel safe, in a healthy relationship, all of a sudden you start having visions and dreams and for both of us at the same time, it would be becoming parents, having kids.'

Mai said that she and Jeezy - who has three children from prior relationships, Jadarius, Shyheim and Amra - had tried to have a child after they wed last March.

The TV star has chronicled her stages of her pregnancy on social media and on her show
Mai last month celebrated a baby shower with friends and loved ones at her home
The event had a Winter Wonderland theme

She said that following a pregnancy loss, the couple thought about in vitro fertilization, but later conceived the child naturally.

Mai opened up about the turn of events to Women's Health last September, saying, 'It was the most beautiful sign that anything's possible, that you're not in control and God has a plan.'

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She said that 'being a mom is hands down the hardest role in the entire world,' and that 'now that we're bringing another Jenkins into the picture, [she has] no idea what to expect.'

Mai last month held a Winter Wonderland-themed 'shower of love' at the home she shares with her spouse.

'How am I falling in love again…but this time with someone I've never met?' she said in a clip on Instagram. 'Baby J isn't even here yet- yet bringing together our friends and family in a way only God can do. Thank you, thank you to all our friends who threw this shower of love.'

Among those in attendance included Adrienne Bailon Houghton, Elaine Welteroth, Jerrod Blandino and Jeremy Johnson.

Mai was previously wed to actor Freddy Harteis from 2007 to 2017; She began dating Jeezy in 2018.

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