Brian McKnight and Wife Leilani Expecting Rainbow Baby

Brian McKnight is joyful to be adding to his relatives just after a tough loss before this 12 months.

The “Back again At A person” singer and spouse Leilani are expecting a different little one alongside one another, McKnight revealed in an Instagram grid collage Thursday that showed him kissing his wife’s bump.

Sharing yet another a few shots that display him posing with Leilani, dressed in all white as he retains her bump, the 53-yr-aged mentioned the few is “ecstatic” to share their toddler news.

“We are ECSTATIC to ultimately announce Child MCKNIGHT is coming quickly!!!!!!!🤍🤍🤍,” he captioned every single of the shots, also including a information to Leilani contacting her “my every little thing my hero my purpose for dwelling.”

“I am so in like with you infant ♥️♥️♥️,” he concluded the captions.

Sharing the news on her own web page, Leilani wrote, “To my rock, the great spouse and father …our newborn is the most blessed boy or girl simply because you are his father. I’m permanently in really like with you Boopy♥️♥️♥️.”

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The singer — who commenced dating Leilani in 2014 and tied the knot hrs forward of ringing in 2018 — opened up in a selection of Instagram posts on Mother’s Working day about how he and Leilani, who share son Jack and daughter Julia, experienced not too long ago seasoned a being pregnant decline.

Sharing a photo the place the couple poses with their children and Leilani has a bump, he wrote, “I treasure this image it was our final relatives photo just before the start of our son Kekoa Matteo.”

Contacting Leilani the “best instance of being a mother I have at any time witnessed,” he mentioned that Kekoa’s due day was Mother’s Working day.

“I know how tricky him not getting here in the flesh with us is weighing very heavy on us, but I know he is with us just like Julia and Jack are, as shining illustrations of your outstanding motherhood,” McKnight continued, applauding the “power I noticed in you by way of the reduction of our son and the courage to deal with the toughest loss we have at any time dealt with in our lives has been truly extraordinary.”

The musician recalled all the milestones of the pregnancy and how they regrettably finished with seeing Kekoa “get his last breath with him on your chest and each of you in my arms.”

“For the pretty 1st time in my daily life I got to encounter what it is really like to want to and plan to have a kid designed from love, and even while he was separated from us way too quickly I would not trade that present you gave me for anything at all in the whole globe. Our son will generally be a section of us and dwell on in our hearts eternally,” he concluded. “I’ve under no circumstances been prouder in my lifestyle than I am right now remaining the father to our 3 unbelievable youngsters.”

McKnight is also father to sons Brian Jr. and Niko with ex-spouse Julie McKnight — whom he was married to from 1990 to 2003 — and daughter Briana McKnight, 21, from a former connection. It is believed that the singer has been estranged from his older kids considering the fact that 2019.