Influencer Ayesha Howard dissed women who called her a “gold digger” who uses her children for a check.
Ayesha, 39, has children by NBA star Anthony Edwards and rapper Lil Baby. She’s currently in a battle with Anthony for child support for their infant daughter.
Anthony is trying to pay her full child support of just over $1 million for 18 years up front so he never has to deal with her or her child again.
Ayesha responded to the gold digger comments in a series of videos on her Instagram story this week.
“I came into this situation with a status because I have a child by a very successful artist, right?,” Ayesha said. “From then, I am viewed as a certain type of woman because I am beautiful and have a nice body. And normally women like that attract a certain caliber of men, which is also not my fault.”
She continued: “And now that I am in yet another situation where I now have a child with another successful man, there is no telling you guys that I am not a gold digger.”
Ayesha went on to say, “There’s no beating those allegations at all… What if I came to y’alls pages and I compare the men that you have children with to the men that I have children with, and I said, ‘Hmm, you were digging for poverty when you picked him to be your baby daddy, weren’t you?'”
Ayesha suggested that her followers chose their men for poverty, section 8 vouchers, or welfare checks.
She concluded: “If that was triggering, that’s how I feel every time somebody says ‘do you even love that baby?'”
It didn’t take long for social media users to respond.
Ayesha Howard responds to critics who claim she is only having Anthony Edwards' baby for money. pic.twitter.com/PHx3y5CxL4
— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) April 3, 2025
This woman is 40, unmarried and has 2 children with 2 different men who were decades younger than her, it doesn’t matter what she’s talking about because her lifestyle says enough about what she is.
— Top Gee?????? (@UsurpedPoetGee) April 3, 2025
Translation: “I know exactly what I’m doing, and you’d do it too in my position so stop hating”
— ? (@suttondef) April 3, 2025
After watching her story on IG, I’m kind of team Ayesha. It’s all my body my choice talk until you choose to keep your baby.
— #DEPORTATIONSNow ?? (@Coutorce) April 3, 2025