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Basketball player Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union got engaged Dec. 21.
Was Dwayne Wade on a break when he fathered a child with a woman who isn't his now-fiancée Gabrielle Union?
During a press conference Monday, the 31-year-old NBA player spoke out about his newborn baby boy.
"I had a time, a part in our break, in our pain and our hurt, a blessing came out of it in my life, having a son that was born healthy," he said, according to a Sun Sentinel report.
"So I'm moving on."
According to the birth certificate obtained by TMZ, his son, Xavier Zechariah Wade, was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 10 to a 30-year-old woman named Aja Metoyer.
The date of his son's bith puts the conception of the child roughly in early February, when he claims he was on a break from the relationship. But TMZ points out several Instgram photos Union posted of the two as a couple around the same time.
On February 5, Union posted a cozy photo of Wade snuggling with a dog with the caption, "Sasha don't play when it comes to her man... 'Down to ride 'til the very end, it's me and my boyfriend.'"
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The birth certificate of Xavier Zechariah Wade, the son of Dwyane Wade and Aja Metoyer, obtained by TMZ.
Union posted another photo of the two together on Valentine's Day.
Wade has dated Union since 2009 and "Entertainment Tonight," which first reported the baby news, said the bride-to-be actress was aware of the child before Wade proposed Dec. 21.
The longtime couple allegedly "worked through the issue privately as a couple.”
"Like I said, this is something, obviously, private for my family that we will continue to deal with as a family,” he added Monday.
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Gabrielle Union embraces Dwyane Wade moments after he popped the question. Union was reportedly aware of Wade’s newborn son before he proposed.
“But we have a blessing to the bloodline, to the Wade bloodline.”
Wade has reportedly known his baby mama "for many years, and according to TMZ he has made "serious effort" to see their child.
Sources told the gossip site that Wade has visited Xavier several times since the birth and even saw him on Christmas Day when he was in Los Angeles playing the Lakers.
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