Eve Reveals She Suffered An Ectopic Pregnancy While Filming Her 2006 Sitcom: ‘For Years, I Never Grieved Losing My First Baby’

Rapper Eve is set to launch her memoir, ‘Who’s That Girl?’, on September 17. In a recent interview with PEOPLE to promote the book, she opened up about her experiences on the path to motherhood.

Although Eve frequently mentions the challenges she faced due to endometriosis and fibroids, she also disclosed that she endured an ectopic pregnancy while working on her television series, ‘Eve’, back in 2006. “You question yourself, your body, the universe, God, so many things,” she said to PEOPLE. “I told my husband [about the miscarriage] when we got close, but never spoke about it in public, not even [while I was hosting] The Talk.”

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In her memoir, the mother of one elaborated on her loss, revealing that she discovered her pregnancy in 2006 while working on set. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when the embryo implants itself outside the uterus, most commonly in the fallopian tube. “I had to have emergency surgery and stop filming the show for two weeks. I don’t know why I lied to everyone on set and said that my appendix had ruptured, really. Maybe because I was lying to myself. If I faced losing my baby, then I didn’t know if two weeks would be enough emotional healing time. In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set,” the memoir documents.

Eve also revealed that after her surgery, she experienced significant weight loss and struggled with denial for several years.

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“For years, I never grieved losing my first baby. I didn’t know how to, but I eventually learned. I had to speak to that baby and acknowledge their existence. I had to forgive myself and know that what had happened wasn’t my fault, that I deserved to be a mother, and that I was ready to bring a baby into this world down here.”

Despite facing numerous challenges on her path to motherhood, the Love is Blind rapper ultimately welcomed her rainbow baby. In 2022, the television host gave birth to a healthy son named Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper. At 45, she is dedicated to providing her son, Wilde, with the childhood experiences she missed out on, alongside her husband, Maximillion Cooper, and it appears she is making wonderful progress.

“His life is so far removed from how I grew up — which is what we all strive for.”