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Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers stop by Essence Live to dish about playng the Obamas in 'Southside With You' and she reveals the sex of her baby.
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00:00of course congratulations are in order and I was trying to get you to hold the baby until my
00:06birthday December 30th but apparently nobody's really into that I understand yeah you know what
00:12you're having are you sharing the sex of the baby yes I'm having a little girl oh congratulations
00:16yeah I'm so excited and she can read essence yes you have a name picked out um not yet we're we're
00:23still trying to figure it out that's like a really important thing so we want to make sure it's right
00:27but yeah my best friend she just she just had a baby last week and she's you know saying that a
00:33lot of other moms are giving her tons of advice are you getting a lot of mom advice yeah I get
00:37advice from everybody but I'm just like I'm the most like relaxed pregnant woman you'll ever meet
00:43I'm my nursery's not done I'm having babies soon like I can happen literally right now um I just
00:50feel like you know what people have been doing this for a really long time having babies and
00:53it'll come out and she'll be okay you know what I mean I'm just very chill about it I'm not gonna go
01:00crazy over it no definitely but I'm excited that's awesome and John Legend was executive producer on the
01:05phone yeah yeah he's also a new dad he is um what was it like working together and do y'all exchange
01:10stories and that sort of thing um actually he was he he saw the first one of the first edits of the film
01:17and was really inspired by it and decided you know to write an original song called start and uh
01:23really good at that yeah because he's amazing and he came on board as an executive producer
01:27but like I asked him I'm like what is it how is it with the baby he's like sometimes it's great
01:32sometimes not very honest yeah and I was like that's that's the truth you know what I mean and
01:38so I guess they're he's a little loon is teething right now sleep in the baby sleeps that's my advice
01:44yeah baby sleeps you sleep don't don't worry about cleaning none of that just take care of the baby
01:49take care of yourself for the first year you're fine I love you park
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