Jeannie Mai Displays on Being a Single Mother After Divorce from Jeezy

Jeannie Mai is loving motherhood.

Showing on the Monday, March 24 episode of chatshow Sherri, the TV persona, 46, opened up about being a single mother to her 3-year-old daughter Monaco, whom she shares with ex-husband Jeezy, 47.

“I had no concept that I’d love being a mother this a lot,” she stated tearfully. “I went all the way in which to 40 years outdated and stated, ‘I’m good, I like spending cash on myself. I like reserving a room for one,’ and now I can’t even think about life with out her.”

She continued, “Most of us didn’t get the childhood that we wished and our mother and father did one of the best with what they may however now I say that I do have the childhood I wished as a result of I’m reliving it by means of Monaco.”

“I’m redoing every little thing that ought to have been executed by means of Monaco,” Mai added.

The previous The Actual host, who was married to Jeezy from 2021 till their divorce was finalized in June 2024, then opened up in regards to the “present” of single parenthood.

“You don’t ideally assume to have a baby and have that complete accountability to your self however…you learn to belief your self,” Mai famous.

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“You study that you just good, you bought it, you already know instinctively what to do,” Mai continued. “You don’t need to test with anyone else; you already know precisely what your daughter wants in love. precisely how your kids have to be seen and heard.”

The mom of 1 added, “So I’m reparenting myself by means of Monaco and I’m studying that I at all times had it, at all times had what I wanted.”

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When she shared a clip from the present through Instagram, Mai’s friends and former The Actual cohosts, Adrienne Bailon and Tamar Braxton took to the feedback to gush in regards to the star as a mom. 

“You might be a tremendous mom. You might be blessed to have one another. 💕,” Bailon, 41, wrote, whereas Braxton, 48, added, “Informed you,,,you’d be an ideal mother ❤️.”

Mai’s feedback about being a single dad or mum come after she revealed to PEOPLE that she’s been relationship herself following her divorce.

“I’ve simply been taking myself out,” Mai stated on the WWD Type Awards in January. “I really feel like proper now, I am simply celebrating all of the issues that I like and that love me and that looks like I am relationship myself,” she stated.

Mai and Jeezy’s divorce got here 9 months after the rapper filed in September 2023 after two-and-a-half years of marriage. 

In accordance with his submitting — which additionally famous that he sought joint authorized custody of their daughter — beforehand obtained by PEOPLE, the 2 have been “dwelling in a bona fide state of separation” on the time, and their marriage was “irretrievably damaged” with “no hope for reconciliation.”