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7 Things You May Not Know About Power Couple Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert
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Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert are taking their relationship to the small screen once more. Following their 2018 VH1 series, Teyana & Iman, the couple are making their return to reality TV with their new E! show, We Got Love Teyana & Iman. Similar to their first series, the show will follow the couple as they navigate their careers and family life with their two kids, 5-year-old Junie and nearly 1-year-old Rue.
Teyana and Iman first began their relationship as friends, but it didn’t take very long for it to evolve into a romance. In 2014, they made their love official, and two years later, they tied the knot. In honor of the premiere of We Got Love Teyana & Iman, keep reading to get to know more about the couple’s relationship.
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- Teyana played hard to get when she first met Iman. “I did not like him at first because when I first met him, he had just got drafted. He was young and doing a lot. I was at a party. He was drunk and had his shirt off. It was just too much going on, baby,” Teyana told Wendy Williams in 2018. “We eventually wound up becoming friends, and I actually shot him for one of my styling companies.” Teyana and Iman’s friendship turned romantic in the end, and they’ve been going strong ever since.
- They got married in the bathroom. After getting engaged in November 2015, the pair secretly tied the knot the following year. “We got married in the bathroom where our baby was born [Junie], so we just wanted it for good luck before we did the big wedding,” Teyana told Wendy. “It wasn’t like inside the bathroom. We had like little cute double doors. It still looked cute.”
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- When they first met, they gave each other a list of all their previous sex partners. Iman and Teyana did this so they wouldn’t be taken by surprise if they ever ran into any of their exes.
- Teyana gets embarrassed when Iman sings her songs when they’re out at dinner or in a quiet room. “You just hear him singing a whole bunch of Teyana Taylor songs! Songs that’s not even out yet,” she previously told GQ. “He sings all of them in falsetto. And then he has the nerve to add his own adlibs on my songs!” However, Iman said he only does it because he just really enjoys her music. “When she makes songs, they get stuck in my head quick,” he explained. “I get that we’re married, but if I like the song, I’m not going to be like, ‘Oh, I’m not going to sing it because I don’t want to seem like I like my wife’s song too much.'”
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- They both agree that communication is the key to a healthy relationship. “We communicate on a day-to-day basis and just know what’s going on with each other so much that [between] the things that we’re supposed to do as far as our job goes and as far as just checking in, there’s no real room for the nonsense,” Teyana told GQ.
- Oh, and keeping their sex life spicy is important, too. “What I live by is that if everything is perfect 24/7, sex would eventually get boring,” Teyana told People. “We like the mad sex, the attitude sex, the passionate sex – this is what it’s for.”
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- Iman delivered their daughter Junie at home. “On Dec 16th at 6:42am in our bathroom Junie decided she wanted to take her first breath into this world. She came out as a wonderful surprise to everyone!” Teyana wrote on Instagram in December 2015. “Not knowing I was in labour until I felt her head . . . it took two ten count pushes with my fiancé playing Dr and she entered this world into his bare hands! Eyes full of tears and barely able to speak to the emergency operator @imanshumpert tied a pair of red headphones around the umbilical cord and the ambulance made there grand entrance 5 min later. She opened her eyes right away, gazed into mine and never cried! He handed her to me wrapped in our bath towel and wiped her face for me to see what LOVE really is. She has blown Christmas away! Our family is complete. Her blueprint will be unmatched. Welcome Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr. Mommy carried you. Daddy delivered you.”
