Looks like Tyler Perry is going to be a dad! Reportedly last week, the TV mogul announced the news at his star packed 45th birthday party. Who is the lucky lady? According to Bossip, it is believed that Gelila Bekele, a 28 year-old Ethiopian model and his on and off again girlfriend, is the mother.
By coincidence, last year Perry told Steve Harvey that he hadn’t accomplished his goal of being a father yet and how he’d wish to become one by the age of 45.
“More than anything I think that it’s fatherhood. I know I would be a great father. I don’t want to work this hard. I don’t want to have all of this and not leave it to my children. I also know that as hard as I’m working, doing twenty hours per day, now is not the time. Right now I’m enjoying what I’m doing. I’m enjoying the work. I’m enjoying being a bachelor, so eventually I’ll get there.”
“Listen, I’m 43, so two more years. By 45 you know who the hell you are, right?” Perry told Harvey.”You’ve really settled in at 45 so I think two more years.
Speculations were confirmed through an Instagram picture with a friend stating that Gelila is in fact “7 months pregnant (with) baby boy!”
He got what he asked for. Congrats, Tyler Perry.
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