Claressa Shields says she and her boyfriend, rapper Papoose, have already mapped out their future and are planning on trying for a baby next year.
“I’m gonna have a baby next year,” she said on The Pivot podcast. “We already had it planned out. I’m gonna have baby next year.”
Shields will need to take some time out after giving birth, but she says that she plans on stepping back into the ring before taking time out to give birth for a second time.
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“Like, I don’t want to wait till I’m, you know, 40, 43, whatever, after my career, to have my kids. I want to be able to run at the park with my kids and stuff like that. I want to be too old,” she explained.
Shields says she should have no problem conceiving because of her clean lifestyle.
She added, “So I think that keeping my body in shape. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I think that that’ll also help me too when I’m going… So I think that keeping my body in shape—I don’t drink, I don’t smoke—I think that’ll also help me too when I’m going through this whole body and life changing stuff or, you know, whatever, next year.”