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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.