Eve Cooper is opening up about a difficult time in her life when she felt it was necessary to hide a health emergency from the cast and crew of her sitcom Eve.
The Queens star – who welcomed son Wolfe in 2022 – suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 2006 and didn’t feel like she could share it as she was in denial.
‘I told them all it was appendicitis,’ she wrote in her new book titled Who’s That Girl per People.
‘I found out that I was pregnant. It was called a tubal pregnancy, where the embryonic sac ruptured in my one fallopian tube,’ she explained, adding that she took two weeks off from the show hoping it was enough to heal physically and emotionally.
‘In the end, it was barely enough healing time for me physically, before I was right back to work on set,’ the 45-year-old rapper explained.
Eve Cooper is opening up about a difficult time in her life when she felt it was necessary to hide a health emergency from the cast and crew of her sitcom Eve
She continued: ‘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.’
The Barbershop star went on to write that she looks back on photos from that time and notices that she was too skinny.
‘I had lost so much weight after the surgery, and my body was so frail. I still had to walk red carpets during that time, and when I look back at pictures, I can see how skinny I was. Too skinny.
‘And too much in denial. But it’s like I’ve said before, sometimes I did whatever it took to show up and get the job done … even if it was to my own detriment.’
She also reflected on the fact that she was in denial and she didn’t let herself fully grieve the child she lost.
‘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,’ she wrote.
Eve eventually learned that endometriosis and fibroids were a contributing factor in the ectopic pregnancy and underwent several rounds of IVF before becoming pregnant in 2021.
‘In 2006, my doctor never told me that one of my fallopian tubes was narrowed — the one that caused the rupture — and that it was covered in endometriosis,’ she writes.
‘I could have had a procedure called a tubal ligation that would have fixed it, but none of that was ever told to me. Back then, even discussing things like endometriosis was completely taboo. People barely knew what it even was,’ she explained.
‘I know now that I also had fibroids, which so many people do — but I had a lot of them.’
The Queens star – who welcomed son Wolfe in 2022 – suffered an ectopic pregnancy in 2006 and didn’t feel like she could share it as she was in denial, seen here in 2006
‘I told them all it was appendicitis,’ she writes in her book Who’s That Girl per People
She continued: ‘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,’ seen here in 2019
‘I had to forgive myself and know that what had happened wasn’t my fault, that I didn’t deserved to be a mother, and that I was ready to bring a baby into this world down here.’
That child is her son Wilde Wolfe, two, whom she shares with her husband Maximillion Cooper.
The couple started dating in 2010 and married in Spain in 2014, making Eve a stepmother to Cooper’s four children with his first wife, Julie Brangstrup.
Who’s That Girl hits bookstores on September 17.