Nia Long Bares Her Soul-and her Belly-In Her Most Intimate Interview ever! The actress poses nude for EBONY’s cover—and gives us an exclusive peek at her very personal pregnancy diary.

Cover Star and expectant mother, Nia Long as you’ve never seen her before!

In the November issue, Long gives EBONY an inside look into her pregnancy diary, the shocking news that made her knees buckle, and how she and her partner, Ime Udoka, are handling the changes and bracing for a new chapter in life. She also opens up to EBONY for the first time ever about her humble roots, reconnecting with family in the West Indies, raising her son, finding her life mate–and about the pregnancy that wasn’t suppose to happen. “The medical profession tries to tell every woman, ‘Have your babies before 40…’ Society tells us ‘Get married before 30…’ I think if we just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.”