FanMAIL: Usher and Tameka Foster’s New Baby Boy is a Preemie

I’m sure all moms can relate to this: I just got word that Usher and Tameka Foster-Raymond’s new baby boy was born premature.

The baby, named Naviyd Ely Raymond, is Usher Raymond’s 2nd and the 6th son for Tameka.

The tyke weighed almost 5 lbs at birth, but he is healthy according to one of Tameka’s close friends who got her permission to email me.

The couple is truly blessed. Some of you may recall that rapper Xzibit’s premature son passed away earlier this year.

Here’s the email:

Hi,

I am a fan of your blog.

Tameka Foster gave Birth to another baby boy. They try to keep it as quiet as they can, he is small, 5 pounds but he is healthy. Please don’t post my e-mail add on your site and could u please, please don’t say anything negative about the kids involved.
I know you have a problem wit Mr Usher Raymond, but Tameka Foster is a good mom and a down to earth nice person, she is being picked on by the media for no reason which is not fair, cause she is really a very nice person and she does not deserve all the stress, and mean remarks made by other black people/blogs.

The main reason Usher fans don’t like her is because of the media and blogs and because she has who the fans want, its kind of jealousy, when she is really not dead ugly, she looks like alot of black woman i see, she is just not white or lightskinned.
What would people say if Usher decided to date or marry a white woman?

Keep up the good work, just tone the hating down a little but, i don’t think thats good for any body’s soul or spirit.

Take Care.

kwallace577

Tameka Foster is a good mom and a down to earth nice person, she is being picked on by the media for no reason which is not fair, cause she is really a very nice person and she does not deserve all the stress, and mean remarks made by other black people/blogs.
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brb. too much to comment on right this second.
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

I pray the baby continues to be healthy..as for the hating, it’s Tameka’s fault she has a past she wasn’t able to get a fixer for..not the blogs and not the fans. She is not an ugly woman..her past is..point blank..That’s what has his ‘adult” fans irritated..oh BTW..FAM I will be in the ATL next week i expect some of you hot mama’s to kick it with a sista..or it’s hell to pay!lol
mizzdallas

Ummmm Tameka was on Wendy Williams show about to spill the beans on Usher and all of sudden she is a NICE person. Anyway I really dont care about those 2 anymore they are so last year Im already in 2009… In Frankie voice “Mannnn-Down Code 10”
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

No comment other than, I hope the baby lives on to be healthy.
kwallace577

if she such a good mom WHERE are those other THREE chilluns she had with husband number one??? if ursh was all of that how come we only seen him with his step sons at the nick kids awards ONE TIME? you think my husband go and take our daughter together somewhere and not take my daughter i already had too??? i know each fam is diff. but that raises a red flag to me….and if SHE is such a good person then why momma jonetta had a restraining order against her?
PAGESINADIARY

tameka,s 5th not 6th child
PAGESINADIARY

5lbs dont qualify for preemie to me. the baby was born 3 to 4 days early
http://myspace.com/lorettadivine DivineBrown

Aw w w w c’mon, let’s not bag on her mothering skills.

We don’t know what kind of mother she is. I hope everything works out with their family. And I’m glad Ursher got him a “regular” broad (according to the writer)
ReadTheBlog

Of course she’s biased, considering Tameka is her friend… Obviously, birthing so many damned kids at her old age is getting to her, no? And lastly I say if Tameka and Usher didn’t share the info, why should we care?
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

I agree with Kwal. I don’t know why Tameka gets so much flack! I think I like her more than Ursher, lol.

I hope the baby is stable and healthy. I know I was a preemie and I had alot of health problems when I was a baby. I also have a very low immune system which causes me to be sick alot and extremely vulnurable to infections.
BLACKBARBIE404

GLAD THE BABY IS DOING GREAT.
BLACKBARBIE404

2BME – WHEN WILL YOU BE HERE? DAYS?
MRSJONESK

@pagesinadiary–
I think you missed Sandra’s sarcasm. She said 6th to include Usher as her kid!! Got to keep watch Sandra, she’ll throw one in on ya.
Anyway, I hope this is the last baby for Tameka’s sake. Good God, she’ll be 70 trying to raise kids.
Sandra, you are sooo difiant!! That woman asked you not to post her email. I’m glad you did!
http://myspace.com/thegameoncw Bird

Damn, so Usher, Tameka and everyone around them be sweating these blogs huh? GET OVER IT. People don’t want what Tameka has. We are just mean on blogs so she gets ripped up for being older, being married when she got with Usher, and not having beauty queen looks. It doesn’t have to be justified, it’s just the nature of entertainment blogs. Stop fretting over it and if they don’t like the attention why is this friend telling us the baby weighed 5 pounds? Is the baby sick? Both of my kids weighed under 6 pounds at birth and only one of them was a preemie and they didn’t spend an extra day in the hospital. So what is the big deal about this?
Kymystry

God bless the Child .. He didn’t ask to be here … so quickly after Usher the 4th …
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

never mind on that Kwal comment, I read back and realized you don’t like her! lol
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

Blackbarbie i will be there 12/28-01/04
ReadTheBlog

Pages, you’re right. It may be considered ‘preemie weight’, but if the baby is full gestational term, then she just had a 5 lb bag-o-sugar baby. My daughter was a teeny-tiny, and rightfully so, as I’m tall and thin and her father is short.

I did smart off in post #9, but as I mom, I do have to wish the child well.
Kymystry

and can someone break down this kids name phonetically for me … SHEESH ..
kwallace577

and i hope baby boy is healthy. i had a preemie and while she was small she was just 3 weeks early. she was able to go home the next day with me. so i hope the baby continues to be healthy.

i feel bad about tameka cause errybody has a past. but i think she is forever gonna be tainted for whatever reason. and if it is b/c she is older that is not fair.
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

Great point Readtheblog @ Pages, you’re right. It may be considered ‘preemie weight’, but if the baby is full gestational term, then she just had a 5 lb bag-o-sugar baby
BLACKBARBIE404

2BME – COOL. I’LL BE BACK IN ATL ON THE 28TH. IM STILL WORKING ON SOMETHING FOR NEW YEARS……
goat76

@K-weezy……………I wouldn’t give my whole check…..but I would be genorus(for the kids)………I would at least match the amount I spend on tha sticky Icky Icky OOOOHHHH WWWEEEEE(monthly)
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

Well I never really got into the whole I HATE TAMEKA bandwagon — how old is she?
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

if you have myspace click on my name and request me..i have two new years fits and need to have my hot azz in both of them
MRSJONESK

LMAO!! I feel you Kymystry! I had to read the name a few times and broke it down into syllable in order to pronounce it! Why didn’t they just do like George Foreman and name him Usher Raymond the 6th!
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

Kwal- What is her past. . .I really don’t know. I always wondered why people didn’t like her!
PAHairston

Hello All. Not much to say about Usher nor his wife except God bless parenthood! They have almost identical noses. The baby’s gotta follow suit, poor thing. I’m just saying…..

HAVE A GREAT DAY YA’LL AND KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!! I live in DC and I can’t wait ’til Jan 20th!
Kymystry

IN MY MIND … the baby’s name is Feliz Navidad … lol
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

Mrsjones knowing Usher he probably tried that and tameka put her foot down..two of them is enough for her!
goat76

Your comment is awaiting moderation. GTFOH!!!!!!!!!
BLACKBARBIE404

2BME – DONE….
BLACKBARBIE404

YEA – I KNOW GOAT. HAPPENS TO THE BEST OF US!!!!

LOL
kwallace577

IN MY MIND … the baby’s name is Feliz Navidad … lol
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HURSH. i am gonna get in trouble for LOL.

ROTFLMAO.
http://groups.msn.com/televisionland CaliGirlinGA

Navyid – is pronounced Na-veed.
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

@ goat & barbie — happened to me the other day, amybe its random
iscream

This email rubs me the wrong way. This is the first I’m hearing about the baby being early. I wonder what her due date was?

Another publicity stunt IMO to sell that album.. (Love the title track… classic R&B). & I love how Tameeka gave her permission to email Sandra. Get real. Does this person even know Ursher & Tameeka? I’m going to send an email to Sandra like I’m a friend of a big celeb & see if the letter is fact checked before posting.
MRSJONESK

Don’t sweat it goat76. Did you just add 76 to the end of your screen name? That’s probably why your comment is awaiting moderation!
goat76

@Jonesk…….Naw, it been like dat…………Im gonna put up my TIP Drill Gravatar(AVI) to see if that’s gonna need some moderation…….
Anna

iyonah Says:

Well I never really got into the whole I HATE TAMEKA bandwagon — how old is she?
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I don’t have a problem with them being together and I think she is pretty. I think she is 38.
BLACKBARBIE404

LOL @ GOAT!!!!!!!!!!
MRSJONESK

Tameka should keep on moving, raise her kids, be the best mom she can and if she can’t handle the public negative attention then go somewhere in isolation. Do like MJ and move to the desert.
These celebs are so fickle. One minute they want us to know their every move, then once they decide the are well known and we fatten their pocket books with record sales and other crap they want us to back the hell off. WTF!! GTFOH! It goes with the territory.
Mississippi16

Ya’ll leave those people alone.

They probably got enough dysfunction going on behind closed doors with out the added 1000 lbs of pressure coming from the general public.

Most relationships are hard anyways, then to add age difference, 3 previous kids, mother in law issues, stalled career … That has to be overwhelming.
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

Thanks Anna -I def was not going to google it when the SR fam fact checks on the regular
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

gotcha BB..tameka is irrelevant..the only people who should care about her is her family not anyone else..the issue is she thinks she’s a celebrity and she’s not..just have usher make some good music and not that garbage he’s been doing..no one cares about the rest
http://myspace.com/diva_mama2 DivaMama

All I have to say is poor baby. At 5lbs he has a great chance – just needs some extra breast milk.

2bme, look forward to seeing you here!
kwallace577

@herm she had a little bit of criminal behavior when she was younger. petty stuff. but who doesn’t? that is not why i do not like tameka. i just don’t. she came on the scene and i pure stopped listening to him. don’t know why…i just did. i wasn’t world’s biggest stan or anything….i just lost interest b/c of all of the drama they CREATED. in other words i don’t think it was real but manufactured for publicity.

oh well.
browni007

Congrats on the new baby boy. It just let’s me know that they were stunting on the break-up and she was fronting on Wendy’s show – I guess he needed to sell records.
licia

i hope the baby gets better and i hope this is it for her. she’s getting older and she’s gonna have more issues. i have a older friend( 41 years old) who had her baby in august and he wasn’t supposed to be born until november, but because of her age they were gonna take him in october. she was having so many issues she didn’t make it past august. he was 2 pounds with some change and now he’s 7 something .
SMALONE

THEY TALKED ABOUT JESUS CHRIST!! WHO CARES IF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THEM.IT WILL STOP.HIS CAREER DID’NT GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE OF HIS WIFE.IT HOW THE GAME GO.NEXT!
MRSJONESK

@kwallace,
I think a lot of his fans were turned off by the way she came on the scene. He lost a lot of fans. No one is checking for him these days. This is why these celebs should have a backup in their lives once the celeb status wears off. Once again, it reminds me of that old Flintstone episode when Fred was famous amongst the teenagers as a rock star and Wilma started a rumor about him and it spreaded throughout the crowd and in a matter of seconds Ole Fred was history.
http://myspace.com/ckarinwhite ckarinwhite

This post is so funny!…hee..hee..hee…

Felix Navidad…

Tameka raising kids at the age of 70…

I was laughing too hard to think of something to comment!!..
http://myspace.com/lorettadivine DivineBrown

I talked about that name last week. That tripped me out.
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

That name is what happens when black folks got too much time on their hands
AlwaysSweet

My son weighed 4lbs. 15oz. and he was full term, just a small baby. Small babies run in my family. Not to mention I couldn’t keep anything down while I was pregnant with him.
bloggergirlz

hey everyone…

usher and tamkea HATE sandra, but approved of a friend sending an email…GTFOH…on the flipside, i don’t know what the big deal is, alot of babies weigh 5lbs @ birth…i know one thing, tameka is fertile a$$ hell! she has an “interesting” friend…

…”when she is really not dead ugly “…
http://myspace.com/bettathaniwasb4 2bme

HOLD UP! How is the baby premature when for the last few months they were saying he was SUPPOSED to be born in December? Unless that’s when they planned to induce..talk about the need for publicity
http://myspace.com/diva_mama2 DivaMama

lol@ bloggerz! Yeah, not deag ugly but ugly nonetheless? What a buddy!
shunda

I pray the baby is healthy. My daughter was 5lbs4oz however I was 17 and low birth weight is common in teenage pregnancies. She is now 5’3 and 105lbs at 11 so she is fine. Navyid is that boy’s name on the new 90210
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

@ Db some parents think diff is creative/unique & nice and in most cases, its not.
Mississippi16

I’m with you Blogger #55

A 5lb baby is a healthy baby. I wish them all the best with all of their kids!

I have friends whose preemies have weighed 2 and 3 lbs and had to be in the hospital for weeks and months before they could even come home. If Usher and Tameka got all of their kids in their home and all are healthy… her “friend” could have kept that information.

They are trying to play on sympathy to get people to go easier on them.
http://myspace.com/diva_mama2 DivaMama

lol @ 2bme, that is actually a popular name in the Middle East and Indian countries. I know a few people with that name. But I see your point.
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

I never paid any attention to Tameka. It is what it is though.

I do think that Ursher has fallen off but not because of her. I feel like he thought that he was invincible and no matter how wack this cd was, it was still gonna be selling like hot cakes bc he crossed over in the mainstream pop music with his last cd.

His plan back fired all over his face. He has enough mula to call it a day for the rest of his life. . .that’s if he doesn’t divorce Tameka. I didn’t her about her signing any pre-nup!
Hotstuff

Um, her baby was born premature b/c that’s when she set the date for the C-section …I think that should be illegal, I don’t think woman should have babies before the 9 month span unless it’s imperative.
http://myspace.com/iyonah iyonah

This post is OLD … something New Sandra?
Mississippi16

@ 63…
The doctor won’t schedule a Csection for a preemie unless the baby/mother’s health is at risk.

I’m calling Bullshyt on this one. If she scheduled her delivery for a certain date, it’s because the baby is considered “full term” not a preemie. They need to stop whoring for publicity and sympathy.

My man is in an industry that he’s had to cross path with Tameka on a regular. Maybe this whole situation has humbled her… but this time last year, her attitude was stank beyond tolerance. They keep records of whenever a customer is rude, uncoorperative, etc. She has over 50 different remarks on her record for her being hard to deal wtih.
browni007

Okay – I didnt address the premie or low birth weight issue.
Some people just have small babies I was 23 and my daugther was 38 weeks – she was 5 pounds 3ounces. My son also born at 38 weeks and he was 5 lbs 12 ounces and I was 29.

As long as all the vitals sign are good the baby is good.
APGAR
iscream

Is Tameeka the star or Usher? Diva like behavior, interviews with Wendy (how did I miss that), putting out statements, worrying about how the “fans” view her, people emailing on her behalf… GTFOH. This bish is getting more wife shine than Jada P Smith. Who is actually a celeb….

Next… thought you were making up for yesterday Sandra.
Songbird27

Well, I’m glad that the baby is healthy, but as far as her being a nice person… smh that is yet to be seen. No, she’s not a bad lookin woman but her attitude makes her ugly…very ugly. And how do you get on the radio and threaten to air your man out to millons of people and embarass him to no end and then turn around and marry him? Now he is the love of your life? I just can’t see it. Hopefully Usher will wake up someday…
candycane

That woman know she can birth some boys. I wonder if they will keep trying until she gets her girl. Congrats to the Raymonds.
Anna

candycane Says:

That woman know she can birth some boys. I wonder if they will keep trying until she gets her girl. Congrats to the Raymonds.

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She never wanted a girl. She said she only makes boys.
http://www.myspace.com/necee518 yvonne79

Congrats on the new baby! I wonder will she have anymore. I guess we will wait until this time next year to find out huh?
LB

But didn’t Usher give an interview a few months ago and SAY that they baby was due in December?
terika83

Wow, well glad he’s healthy. I wonder if she wants any girls and I would be curious to see what their daughter would look like.

People (well me) don’t care for Tameka because of that Essence photo shoot….she was acting like SHE is the star and please…no one is checking for Usher anymore. Also, people prob. talk about her just cause she’s older and not AS pretty as Chilli is…and also because she got on a magazine wit her stomach all out showing her stretch marks…who does THAT? She’s just avg to me with a strong jaw structure.
sweets1530

Congrats to Usher……
Wonder when she will stop…..#6, wow!!!
LADYTEA

hope the baby is doing o.k. never would I write in to someone to post such info on one of my friends, if this info is so sensitive, let it lie with the families. then you damn near beg the blogger to not post anything negative, why take that chance??
https://sandrarose.com Sandra Rose

PAGESINADIARY Says:

tameka,s 5th not 6th child

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Correction: That’s her 6th son. She has an older son in his early twenties.
Candi Apple

Tameka will not stop and why should she stop having kids. Usher and Tameka can afford to have as many children that god allows. Children are a blessing and not a curse.
keely107

Well ,my heart surely goes out to them about the baby coming early, its ahrd enough worrying about a newborn and twice as bad when they are vulnerable like that. I too had a preemie and its no joke. Please support the March of Dimes fam!
LB

in his early 20’s?! wait.. hold old is she?
mimi08

It’s just crazy that the writer of the email made the assumption that the people who don’t care for tameka does not because she isn’t light skinned or because she married Usher.

Here’s some reality for the emailer: People don’t like her for other reasons. 1) She came between usher and his mother to the point where he actually fired her because of the friction; (you can say that’s not how it happened, but whatever) 2) She’s a con artist (check her criminal history) 3) she’s a liar 4) she’s a thief.

The hate had nothing to do with her skin color; there are a bunch of other stars and celebrities married to dark skinned women; how come them women don’t receive this same hate? Let’s be logical here. It’s got nothing to do with her complexion or her age. She just seems sneaky and slimy and the revelation of her criminal fraud history proves it. Furthermore, we all know she cheated on her husband to be with usher, way before they actually came public with their relationship and way before they got married. She knows it, but we can’t prove it. But nobody’s dumb.

She just gives off a bad aura, and not to mention how she reacted to people. She was calling names and carrying on, just as bad as some of the people making the remarks.

I could careless, because, #1, Usher has never been much a looker, and his style is 1 and 10; it’s not like he’s so unusual, not to mention all the holes MJ got in his azz from usher biting out of it. So really, to think people love usher so much they would hate on his wife is ridiculous. People just didn’t like her because of her, not him. Just didn’t make him look good, crying like a lil bytch over here, yelling at people, giving people the middle finger; cause it all came back to bite him in his record sales.

These celebrities forgot we as the fans have the last say..hell, we determine whether you’ll get to keep your damn house. Cause if we don’t buy, they don’t make money. And the Raymonds obviously know that now, got their tails ducked between their legs, got Tameka in hiding away from the fans, and usher is regrouping by rehiring his mother and trying to make nice with the fans. However, it’s too late. People never forgot how you treated them.
http://myspace.com/briamama Mom of 2 Preemies

I pray that the baby is healthy. I am a mom of 2 preemies. Both Girls, the oldest (8) weighing 2lbs 14 oz and my youngest (1) weighing 1lb 4oz. They both are healthy. My youngest was in the hospital for 3 months. Yesterday we had our 2nd NICU follow-up appt and they said that she is right on target! She now weighs 25lbs and is doing great. My oldest was in the hospital for only 21 days and is extremly bright. God has truly blessed me!

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