Mario is not an expectant father; the 39-year-old is formally a first-time dad!
The “Let Me Love You” singer and his girlfriend, Esmeralda Rios, welcomed their first youngster on Monday (Jan. 26), a “wholesome child boy,” in accordance with Mario. He shared the information through his Instagram Tales, full with him rocking hospital scrubs and a masks, nicknaming himself “Physician Barnett.”
“Ladies are God’s best creation cuz what I witness right now was ONLY GODS work!” he wrote. “Wholesome child boy!”
Final August, Mario used Instagram to disclose he was quickly to turn into a father, putting a hand on Rios’ rising child bump and sharing why he couldn’t wait to satisfy his youngster.
The thought of fatherhood wasn’t a novel idea to the singer, who has been vocal about his personal upbringing. In an interview with Atlanta’s V-103, he mirrored on why he considered bringing a baby into the world as one thing he would do with intention.
“I don’t take having children flippantly,” he mentioned. “All people I do know [has] children. A few of my mates [that are] youthful have children, a few of my mates [that are] older have children, and it comes with lots of execs and cons. And I additionally grew up with no father. So, I need to do it proper once I do do it. You already know, I obtained time. So, I’m not speeding into that.”
Even whereas celebrating love, Mario needed to deal with claims he didn’t love Black girls after his relationship with Rios went public, and he reiterated time and time once more that his love for Black girls has by no means wavered.
“My grandmother, my mom, my members of the family, my aunts, a couple of of the Black girls that I’ve dated up to now, my relationship with them have been all totally different. I can’t examine one to the opposite,” Mario informed Cam Newton throughout an look on the previous NFL MVP’s “Funky Friday” podcast. “My grandmother was my hero. She was the distinction in my life when it got here to understanding the significance of a Black lady, the power of a Black lady, the soul of a Black lady, the connection {that a} Black lady may have with God that was unwavering.”
