It’s A Boy For Jill Scott
Posted by Media Outrage on April 22, 2009
Jill Scott is a proud new mother of a baby boy. She gave birth on Monday at 4:20 pm.
Via People:
R&B singer and actress Jill Scott and her fiancé, drummer Lil John Roberts, have welcomed their first child, a boy, her manager confirms to PEOPLE.
Jett Hamilton Roberts was born at 4:20 p.m. on April 20. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 8 oz.
Scott, who stars on HBO’s new series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based on the popular novels by Alexander McCall Smith, discovered she was pregnant shortly before leaving for Botswana to film the show.
“At one point I was trying to gain weight for the role, and I noticed I had put on 7 lbs. in 7 days. And I thought, my god! What’s going on here,” she tells PEOPLE. “I thought something was wrong with me, and I found out I was pregnant the day I was supposed to leave for Africa.”
She first revealed her pregnancy to reporters at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles in January. “The first trimester I spent in Botswana,” said Scott, 37, a three-time Grammy Award winner. “That was one of the biggest challenges of my life. First trimester! You’re sick every morning. It was seven hours time difference, the heat, the bugs, the 14 hour days.”
But Scott continued filming through her pregnancy: “My doctors gave me a clean bill of health and said you can do this, so I did it.”
The new parents, who reportedly began dating in 2007, announced their engagement at a concert in New York City on June 20.
“I definitely had issues over the course of my life, reproduction issues,” she explains to PEOPLE. “I was married for five years and could never conceive a child. Until now … It’s the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me.”
Mediaoutrage- Congrats! to the proud parents.
Dickwell Thrust said
Congrats to Jill and I do watch the show its good. And i know that baby would grow prosperous and healthy.
…because from the size of those beautiful Godzilla tity’s, she could keep that baby and 14 others fed for 3 decades!!! AT LEAST
Yasmine T. said
LOL I usually start laughing before I even click on your comments DT. I;m hollerin in this office lol.
congrats Jill!
w2m said
Congrats to Jill and Lil John.
DT you stoooooooopid, LOL!
Yasmine T. said
Hey W2m. Ain’t he crazy? lol. Even when I don’t have the time to leave comments I’m still reading them and laughing my ass off.
crystalshine said
Congrats 2 her!
w2m said
Hey Yasmine T. I feel you. I can’t post all the time, but I still read and DT is always off the chain.
crystalshine said
Congrats 2 her! What a date and timeframe!
CaramelKiss said
DT, u are officially hilariously nuts! I almost spit my coffee out onto my laptop reading your blatantly truthful comments. Wowzers.
She had a baby on 4/20/2009 at 4:20PM…? U think she trying to tell us something?
Congrats Ms. Jill on your new bundle of joy. Many blessings.
Marathon_Man said
lol @ the n*gga dt. congrats to Jill and her husband
ucanb2 said
Congratulations… hope the baby is happy and healthy.
beach chick said
Good for her…with those tig ole bitties she carrying…that baby will be well fed!
Yvonne said
Congrats to Jill, John and Jett. Wish you guys all the best.
MissTX85 said
DT yo crazy ass ain’t lying bout how the baby gone be well fed and healthy.
Congrats to her and her fiance! Wish all 3 the best!
joneblaze said
Congrats to her and her husband and congrats to all the men who love tits because those DDD’s are likely G’s by now