KJ Smith Lets Sex of Baby Slip as She Debuts Baby Bump on BET Awards 2025 Red Carpet (Exclusive)

KJ Smith is astir to participate her 3rd trimester — and conscionable revealed she's expecting a babe girl.

The Sistas actress debuted her babe belly connected nan reddish carpet astatine nan 2025 BET Awards on Monday, June 9 extracurricular nan Peacock Theater successful Los Angeles. Smith, 40, is expecting her first babe pinch her hubby Skyh Black.

Smith was glowing successful a flowing greenish gown pinch cutouts and her hairsbreadth pulled backmost into an elegant debased bun. Black, 37, opted for an all-black ensemble pinch sunglasses and necklaces to complete nan look. The parents-to-be posed connected nan reddish carpet for immoderate PDA moments and hand-holding.

Speaking to PEOPLE connected nan reddish carpet, Smith said she had knowledgeable greeting sickness and "all nan cravings" — but said lasagna and French fries, specifically, did not beryllium good pinch "her."

Clapping a manus complete her rima arsenic Smith realized she'd fto nan activity of babe slip, her hubby laughed and said, "She's been telling maine nan full clip [to support nan secret]!" arsenic Smith apologized to him. "No, you gotta time off that successful though, you did it!" Black jokingly responded.

Smith admitted she'd antecedently told Black, "If you show I'm going to... Every clip personification asks him, I springiness him nan decease stare." He admitted, "This full BET Experience I'm successful my caput for illustration don't opportunity this, make judge you don't opportunity that!" only for Smith to beryllium nan 1 who revealed nan news.

"I person mom brain!" she said, defending herself.

"To cognize that I'm going to beryllium a woman dada ... I've bought so galore things from 0-6 months that she's telling maine to stop. I'm elated!" Smith added, "Every time is simply a caller 'girl dad' t-shirt for him and her... he's like, 'Look what I got!'"

Do nan mates person a sanction for their girl each picked out? "Yes we do — and that I will support secret!" Smith told PEOPLE.

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Black and nan All The Queen's Men star began making love successful January 2021 and were engaged that December.

Black and Smith got joined successful September 2023 astatine nan Malibu Dream Resort successful beforehand of their 150 closest family members and friends.

They said pinch PEOPLE astir their typical time and nan thoughtful taxable they had successful mind. "Our past sanction is Black, truthful we ever usage it arsenic a play connected words," Black said of nan event, which included elements of their shared Black culture.

"We’re from nan South and we person these traditions that are very adjacent and beloved to our hearts that our parents and grandparents person shared. Our wedding is an homage to our ancestors pinch immoderate elegant moments we’ve curated and loved arsenic a couple... And it was amended than I imagined."

Smith debuted her babe bump successful May, announcing her gestation pinch ESSENCE. She was hesitant to person kids since she was focused connected her acting career, had fibroids, and suffered from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). However, Black changed her mind.

"I didn’t want kids astatine all. I aspired to beryllium a rich | auntie. I did not meet my hubby until good into my 30s, truthful I had already decided," Smith told ESSENCE exclusively.

"And past erstwhile he came into my life, and you meet a man who is responsible and a leader who takes complaint and wants to beryllium a father, wants to person a family, my mind changed arsenic we grew and arsenic we became a mates and married."

She continued, "He was nan main logic I wanted a child. I said, ‘This would beryllium a bully acquisition pinch you arsenic my partner and husband.’ So I didn’t expect having kids astatine all, and now I want arsenic galore arsenic I tin have."

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Black is besides looking guardant to parenthood. "My biologic begetter was very absent successful my life. So personally, it’s thing that I’ve ever looked guardant to. It’s thing that I’ve ever dreamed of, really I was going to link pinch my kid, aliases foster their dreams, truthful I’m elated," he told nan publication.

The BET Awards are airing unrecorded connected Monday, June 9 from Los Angeles' Peacock Theater connected BET.