Aja Naomi King Reveals 3-12 months-Previous Son Kian’s ‘Devastating’ Hair Request (Unique)

Aja Naomi King’s son simply bought a “massive boy haircut.”

The Grosse Pointe Backyard Society actress, 40, shared throughout an unique PEOPLE in 10 interview just a few updates about her 3-year-old son, Kian, whom she welcomed with husband Dan King in June 2021.

Requested if their son is a mama’s boy or daddy’s bestie, she shortly solutions, “He’s daddy’s bestie. He actually stated he needed to chop his hair, which is devastating to me, and he was like, ‘I need my hair quick like Daddy.‘ ”

“I used to be like, ‘Oh God, however okay,’ as a result of we wish him to have possession over himself. ‘Sure, that is your hair. You’ll be able to reduce it. Hair grows. It is high-quality,’ ” she recollects. “So he bought his massive boy haircut, and it made him look older.”

“And I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, you’re not a little bit child anymore.’ However he is so joyful. He has a lot power,” she provides, earlier than revealing that Kian and her husband are in California snowboarding at Mammoth. 

“Sure, I’ve a little bit snowboarder on my arms,” she says.

After giving beginning to Kian in 2021, she shared particulars about her being pregnant.

“No, this isn’t a being pregnant Earlier than image. That is the After,” she captioned an Instagram put up. “After days of labor. After experiencing what felt like my insides being ripped aside, no lie. After experiencing the unimaginable fantastic thing about childbirth, that is what’s left behind. This Beautiful Physique!”

“So in celebration of myself and my physique for ‘Doing the Rattling Factor,‘ I needed to share this photograph. No make-up, no modifying, no filters (and you realize I really like a filter!)…Simply Me…a girl in awe of her Physique and her Child! ♥️,” she concluded her candid post-pregnancy replace to followers.

Since then, King was nominated for an Emmy in 2024 for excellent supporting actress in a restricted sequence for Apple TV+’s Classes in Chemistry.

With Kian now 3 years previous, he’s beginning to discover his mother in media. 

“There shall be moments like when there was a billboard after the Emmy nomination. We positively drove to the billboard to have a little bit household photograph in entrance of it,” she tells PEOPLE in 2025. “He was like, ‘That’s you, Mommy, that is an image of you’ … and I used to be identical to, ‘That’s me.’ ”

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Except for being a mom, the previous Find out how to Get Away with Homicide star is now in a lead function in NBC’s Grosse Pointe Backyard Society as Catherine, “one among 4 members of a suburban backyard membership who discover their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret — a homicide nobody needs to speak about,” in accordance with the present’s synopsis.

The forged additionally consists of Melissa Fumero, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis and Felix Wolfe. 

Grosse Pointe Backyard Society premiered on NBC on Feb. 23.