‘Is It True?’: Fans Probe Erica Mena and Safaree After They’re Reported to Be Expecting First Child Together

It looks like “Love and Hip Hop” couple Erica Mena and Safaree Samuels are reportedly expecting a baby.

Yes, that’s right! After months of fans speculating the 31-year-old model was pregnant, it seems the rumors could possibly be true. Hollywood Unlocked reported that Mena recently did a maternity shoot to celebrate her and Samuels’ rumored unborn child. The site’s inside sources claimed she and the “Hunnid” rapper were planning on publicly announcing the news with pictures from the shoot.

If the news is true, details about the pair’s pregnancy such as how many months along Mena is and the gender of their baby, are currently unknown.

Erica Mena
Safaree Samuels and Erica Mena Samuels attend the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on August 26, 2019, in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Both Mena and Samuels, 38, have posted on social media since news of their supposed bundle of joy made headlines. Neither individual have yet to confirm the reports.

Fans have been bombarding both “LHHNY” stars, asking if the reports were true or not.

“Is it true? Are you really pregnant? I 🕵️‍♀️ a belly Mena🤰🏻 @iamerica_mena @safaree please tell us! We’re dying to know”

“Congrats on the Baby ‼️😍 I can see the little bump already lol we already knew tho”

“They talm bout you pregnant…let us. Know sis 😭💜 when is the due date? I can’t wait!”

Can you please stop Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner is just tell us 🙄 @iamerica_mena congrats if you really are pregnant though 😍”

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Safaree Samuels and Erica Mena. (Photo: @safaree/Instagram)

Just last month, social media speculated Mena was pregnant after noticing her apparent protruding belly. However, Samuels hit back at fans, noting that people have been assuming his fiancée is with child since last year.

“Y’all been saying she’s pregnant since December🤦🏾‍♂️😩,” the rapper wrote. ” The Internet knows more than the ppl involved nowadays 😐.”

The 31-year-old model did, however, claim they were in the process of trying to have a child. During an Instagram Live video in March, Mena claimed at the time she’d been using sea moss — a supposed age-old Caribbean fertility concoction for couples trying to have a child — during her and Samuels’ stay in the Caribbean.

“I’ve had sea moss,” she said at the time. “Cause you know we’re trying to have a baby, so we’re putting it inside our drinks and stuff.”

Samuels doesn’t have any children of his own, but Mena shares 12-year-old son King Conde with Latin rapper Raul Conde.

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