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Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah at Home with Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade & Their New Baby, Part 1

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.633.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey sits down with actress, activist and New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Union and NBA superstar Dwyane Wade at their home in Los Angeles for a conversation about their unique path to parenthood. In an exclusive interview, the power couple introduces their beautiful new daughter, Kaavia James, to Oprah and the world. Gabrielle and Dwyane candidly discuss their struggles with infertility, the stigmas that surround the use of a surrogate and the backlash they’ve received on social media. Gabrielle shares what she’s learned about motherhood from her stepsons and the hurdles the couple has faced raising young African American men in today’s society. Dwyane also opens up about his decision to take paternity leave from the NBA. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the

0:07.1

most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:15.5

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:22.5

now.

0:23.5

So congratulations on your first child together.

0:27.8

You know, on Instagram, I could feel even through just my little screen, a kind of palpable

0:35.0

joy. And then I looked at all the responses and actually some of them made me tear up

0:40.7

because other people were so joyful for you. It's like they were a part of it. Did you

0:49.3

feel that too?

0:50.3

Yeah. I mean, I think trying to be as transparent as possible through so much of my fertility

0:55.5

journey and our fertility journey, people are feel seen. Yeah, they feel like they're not

1:02.3

alone and they want to know the outcome. They want to have hope that somebody somewhere

1:07.2

is having better luck than they are. And so for them to finally see us with our baby,

1:13.4

just felt like, yeah, it is possible. I can do this. This can be, I'm already getting

1:17.6

choked up. This can be my reality. And it was so throughout so much of my life, I've realized

1:25.2

that so many people are suffering in silence. And every time we're more candid and transparent

1:31.5

about our journeys, no matter what those journeys are, you are allowing people to be seen

1:35.5

and heard and empowered in ways that they've never been. So her arrival, there has been

1:40.4

so much joy and celebration because of what she represents for a lot of people.

1:45.3

Are you still sleepless and delirious? I've got a couple nights. You got a couple nights.

1:49.4

She gave us a little bit. She was like, okay, I know my parents, they need a little sleep

1:53.4

tonight, but tomorrow I'm up. Yeah. I love what you posted that we're sleepless

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