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 character, 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 mentioned tearfully. “I went all the best way to 40 years outdated and mentioned, ‘I’m good, I really like spending cash on myself. I really 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 way of Monaco.”

“I’m redoing every part that ought to have been executed by way 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 concerning the “present” of single parenthood.

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

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

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

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

“You’re an incredible mom. You’re blessed to have one another. 💕,” Bailon, 41, wrote, whereas Braxton, 48, added, “Informed you,,,you’ll be a terrific mother ❤️.”

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

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

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 had been “dwelling in a bona fide state of separation” on the time, and their marriage was “irretrievably damaged” with “no hope for reconciliation.”