TAYE DIGGS IS “DIGGING” FATHERHOOD
Taye Diggs, his wife Idina Menzel, and their three-month old son Walker Nathaniel were photographed out in Los Angeles.
So how is fatherhood working out for the first-time dad?
“I am loving it. It’s nothing compared to what “Wifey” has to deal with but he’s a great little guy. Words can’t express…. I have something new to look forward to every day when I come home,” said Taye in an interview with Fancast
“…I’m feeling things that I haven’t felt before. As a 38-year-old, that’s kind of weird; at this age you figure you’ve pretty much felt everything. But this is completely new and I’m digging it, he added.
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awwwwwwzzzz!!!! taye ur fam iz too cute…luv yah wish u an ur fam all da happiness!!!
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Taye is such a handsome guy. Couldn’t see lil Taye too well but nice to see family out and about.
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Surprisingly his baby is cute. I used to wonder why his career never really went anywhere –now i see why.
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Why would you wonder, since you already seem to know the answer–ha ha.
I can’t even make heads or tail of the baby’s looks in this pic. He is light. That is all I can see…am I missing something.
Another, that the brother got any notice at all, been in several films and tv. There are ten wannabe Diggs for everyone. It is hard for many actors of color to get a break–I’d consider him lucky.
Love his smile and brown skin.
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Taye Diggs has had an excellent career. There are actors of every color and ethnic group who would do anything to work half as often as he does. This is an extremely difficult industry to make it in, especially for black actors, but believe me, there are MANY white actor who would love to be in his position.
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More power to him if he’s the bread winner in his family.
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I wouldn’t say he is the “bread winner” of the family. Idina isn’t broke by any means. She has and makes her own money.
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Why compare him to White actors? There are many more white actors on every level. He compares himself to other Black actors like Denzel Washington and Omar Epps.
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What do you mean “never went anywhere?” Taye has been steadily working for over a decade. Most actors dream of that career.
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Aww, Walker is a cutie!!!
Is this picture recent? He looks younger than three months (to me) in that photo.
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Cute baby.
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It bothers me that Taye’s child will not inherit his chocolate skin. I think it’s his most attractive physical feature and his offspring won’t have it.
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I agree!!!
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I think he is going to be a light skinned Taye. He looks a lot like him in the face.
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I don’t see any resemblence yet …
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He’s still a young baby. He’ll get darker.
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I agree TJ. I have to admit also feeling this way whenever I see a beautiful African supermodel who chooses a white partner. I think it is sad that their beautiful chocolate skin will not be passed on to their offspring. Unfortunately, so many of us don’t view dark skin as something beautiful to pass on.
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I absolutely love chocolate skin. My sister has the perfect mahogany skin that turns deep dark brown with red undertone in the summer sun. I want my child to inherit that skin with big bright brown eyes. I’m not against interracial dating and all that. I just love that color and it’s one of the downsides of mixing because that’s the first thing to go. Sometimes every other facial feature will be there and the skin color won’t. That’s all I’m saying.
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I agree!
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i have to cosign, thats what made taye taye….oh well
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Are you serious? You are really bothered by someone else’s child not inheriting their complexion?
Wow…you know even if he had married a black woman it’s not likely his child would’ve been the same complexion as him.
You just sound really upset that the baby doesn’t seem to be dark-skin. I hope you are losing sleep over this but somehow I think your comments seem sarcastic.
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Why does it still amaze me so of some of these comments on this site? After the same type of countless opinions about newborn babies complexions, and how they aren’t dark enough…Damn shame!!Absurd actually!! Whatever happened to a child being loved/healthy being the most important aspect?? Nope, doesn’t seem that way anymore….
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Dark skin or light skin — Black people are so fortunate to have such beautiful skin. Every race has something unique about them that makes them stand out. For us, it is our skin. You have heard the saying “black don’t crack.” We have so much to be thankful for as black people. We have beautiful skin (dark or light), we are strong, and are able to achieve great things despite obsticles. We are a proud people. Look at what we are and what we have accomplished despite being a group of people that has been hated, mistreated and sometimes hate ourselves. When you think about it all, the color of our skin does not matter. We can be beautiful both inside and out. Remember the saying from back in the day. “BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!
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I think Taye is good looking……the kid is cute
Soooo many interracial babies these days
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He has a very good career he was in the brodway production of rent he has a tv show out right now thats doing well. he has a great career and a very beautiful son and wife. She has like three tony awards from the play wicked she can sing her behind off.
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He is cute from what I can see. He resembles Taye a little bit. I’m happy for them.
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I had a bi-racial baby and everyone was always waiting for her to “darken up”. It always hurt my feelings when I heard people say that. As she grew older, darker skinned people always picked on her, for no reason other than her skin color. Maybe it was her thick curly long hair or maybe that she has green eyes. Do you know how comments like that make people feel. There is beauty in every color. Ignorance never seems to go away. I kind of expected that 23 years ago, but now? It really surprises me. She still has not “darkened up”, and I am just fine with it.
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@AirForceGirl…That is insane to me!! “Darken up” I guess we have to roll with the punches, because ignorant people are going nowhere
All children are beautiful!! And like you said “There is beauty in every color” I mean an opinion is one thing, but to think/believe someones child should be Light skinned/Dark skinned is ridiculous to me.
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I don’t think my statement was ignorant. One of the best features on Taye Diggs was his chocolate skin. That was his allure and those bright white teeth against captivated us. I was simply stating the child won’t have that color. No one is being racist. No one is jealous of hair texture, etc. It’s just the nature of the beast. The first trait to go is skin color. Not trying to offend biracials or light skin blacks.
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Why should he get darker?his mother is white. Every kid with a black father…..dark or not does not get any darker. I think he is so cute now that he is coming into his looks. I am one whom have been judgemental on this site also. I have come to realize…..life is to short to worry about someone else’s life. If that is whom Taye love, then I am happy for him. Whom he is with have nothing to do with me. Not like he is my man or ever was,lol. Congrats to them both.
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That’s a nice commentary, Luvbug.
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I agree.
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That little cutie is spitting image of his daddy.
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His wife still hasn’t lost the baby weight…
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Pictures are from October. Walker was just a month old. It will probably take Idina some time to go back to her previous size 3.
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He is adorable. He actually looks like Taye.
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BCKFAN….SO WHAT, BABY IS ONLY 3 MTHS. HELL I STILL HAVENT LOST MINES AND MY BABY IS 15YRS OLD,LMAO.
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I work in the pediatric ward of a local hospital and judging by his skintone now, he will definitely be darker skinned. He is gorgeous and will continue to be when his skintone settles in. If you are around enough young babies, you can see the markers of darker skin just like you can with eye color. Many of our white patients start off with blue eyes and they change to hazel or brown w/in a couple of years. It shouldn’t matter. I am sure his parents will love him regardless is he stays beautiful and fair or if he becomes dark and beautiful.
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THIS IS THE PROBLEM ESPECIALLY WITH MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS!! THEY DONT LIKE OR WANT DARK (CHOCOLATE SKIN)SKIN BABIES. TRUST ME.To me it seems as if the darker their children are, the more cursed that child will be. To prove it, please take a look at the comments from the bloggers on this site.There are more embraced comments on lighter children than darker children .WATCH…
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THAT’S SO TRUE, I THINK NOBODY WANTS A DARK SKINNED (CHOCOLATE)BABY.THEY PREFER THEIR CHILD TO BE LIGHT SKIN BLACK. ESPECIALLY DARK SKIN BLACK MEN AND WOMEN.
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NOT TRUE!!! I’m dark and i LUV me a dark-chocolate brother, hence, my husband. We can’t wait until we produce little hershey kisses. Where I’m from, New Orleans, the dark brothers get snatched up quick. I think it’s the brothers who have this issue, not the sisters.
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Sorry, I know quite a few black women who have stated, over and over, that they have no desire to mate with dark skinned men because they don’t want dark babies. I also know of several black mothers who have told their sons to never choose a dark skinned mate. Brainwashing affects both genders!
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Monique, the problem you described is not limited to black men. There are many black women who are color-struck. They believe the ideal partner is either light or white. They are concerned about the skin tone of their children and believe that light-skinned children are more attractive than dark-skinned ones. Many of the comments on this site are proof.
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SO TRUE!!!
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I would love my baby no matter what complexion she was. Love really does not see color. I would have thought she was beautiful no matter what.
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Well my husband is white and I was disappointed when our first daughter was born with blond hair and blue eyes! My mom kept saying and hoping that she would “turn”. She never did. She still has straight blond hair and light eyes. I love her to death but I can honestly say that in the beginning, I would have preferred her to be darker with coarser hair. It may be superficial but I think we all have an idea what we imagine our kids looking like. In the end it doesn’t matter. We have since had 2 miscarriages and her skin or hair is SO unimporatant. I think MOST parents with any lick of sense would love their child regardless. Not all blacks are color-struck!
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You are right. Not all black people are color-struck. But I have yet to meet a single person who would admit that they are.
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Kiki, your post is so on point. It takes all kinds and for some of the posters to reply as if they did market research on the matter and state as fact, for every colorstruck black there are a dozen more who ain’t buying into it.. Many blacks have brown or very dark brown children–they are no less loved. Looks are so superficial anyway. The lighter skin won’t make any of the darker parents themselves lighter so I find that silly in a way for those that shallow to go there. Please get over the allusion that life is so much more golden for golden colored and whiter people….it isn’t on the whole==I got inside knowledge
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ANOTHER IGNORANT COMMENT. IF U CLAIM U EMBRACE BLACK SO MUCH AND WANTED A CHILD WITH BLACK FEATURES THEN U WOULD OF FIRST NEVER MARRIED A WHITE MAN! SITTING THERE TALKING ABOUT U WAITED FOR HER SKIN TO GET DARK AND HER HAIR TO BE COARSE. OH PLEASE IF U THOUGHT THAT THEN OBVIOUSLY U ARE CRAZY. ITS BEEN SHOWN THAT IN MOST CASES THE CHILD TAKES MOST AFTER THE FATHER IN LOOKS ETC! PLEASE DONT BE SURPRISE NEXT TIME IF YOUR NEXT CHILD LOOKS THE SAME WAY!SMH
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I can’t believe that a bunch of grown women are on here getting bent out of shape about what the complexion of SOMEBODY’S ELSE’S CHILD is. Are you freaking serious?!, and who he or any other black man or woman chooses to date/marry/screw is none of your business! GET OVER YOURSELF! Stop blaming and putting your hang ups about race and your own skin complexion on other people. I’m a black women and i could care less who black men date or marry Its not my place or right to tell other people who to love! I only have one life to live and that’s MINE. Me myself just happen to be married to a non-black man(he’s asian) You don’t know how many ignorant fools we come in contact with on the regular like ones who think on this site. We had a man who was staring so hard, and being rude that he followed us into a store. My husband had to put him in his place like many. he used one simple phase MIND YOUR FREAKING BUSINESS!
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I am biracial…white mom black dad…..I have an 8 year old daughter, her father is white. I didnt do that intentionally, I was a teenager, and we fell in puppy love and had a baby, simple as that. Not to long after I gave birth, I returned to high school. While I was waiting for the bus, a black boy that I had grown up with approached me in extreme anger, asked me “Why you got knocked up by that white boy, you sopposed to date n****s” Then he preceeded to push me down the incline to the bus ramp, I had just had a C-section 6 weeks earlier. He was not the only young black male who made comments like that to me. I guess by having a baby with a “cracka” I had crossed some invisible line in my town. This astounded me, because none of those boys had any romantic intrest in me whatsoever anyways.
My daughter is the same color as me, maybe a shade lighter in the winter. ( I look like your typical mixed person) and she has straight hair. She dosent look black or white or even latino. She has straight up European Facial Features, with a golden color skin tone and straight hair. Go figure.
My point is that all people are bueatiful, Taye Diggs is gorgeous! If he fell in love with a white girl….so what? His baby is gonna be on the darker end of the biracial spectrum anyways! Who knows, he may have more kids with someone else.
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He better not be having kids with someone else. I don’t think his wife and family will be too pleased with that, haha.
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Im a black woman from the caribbean and im very secure in my blackness, however I have no problems if other black sisters or brothers choose to date another human being outside of their ‘race’. As black people who have borne the brunt of racism for decades im very disappointed by some of the very racist and hateful comments that are directed at people who decide to marry, date or have children with someone outside their ‘race’, the only race that should matter is the human race of which we are all apart, people should not have to defend their choices of the heart or be made to feel as if they have somehow betrayed their ‘race’ just because they got involved with someone else its just plain stupid to me! Some of you people need to get over yourselves and appreciate the fact that we all have different ideas of how we’d like to live ourlives and because we choose to do so shouldnt be seen as some kind of indictment.
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When the men of your own racial group find you undesirable as a life partner, how can that not hurt. To suggest otherwise is beyond naive. Another aspect of this issue that is seldom discussed is the attitudes of white men who believe they are doing black women a favor. I have close friends who are either married to or involved with white men who have confided in me that they are constantly reminded by these men, sometimes in very subtle ways, that black men do not want black women.
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I work with black children and I can state without reservation that the issue of complexion is a major problem in the black community. Pretending it isn’t will not make it disappear. The sad part is we perpetuate it. I remember being on the train and listening as a mother described the beautiful “light-skinned” daughter of a friend of hers. The look on the face of her own young dark-skinned daughter, standing by her side, nearly brought tears to my eyes.
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*sigh* Sometimes it’s so deeply ingrained that it comes out in words and actions without any effort. I wonder if she’ll ever realise how much her gushing has hurt her child, and I doubt that was a one-off event.
It’s bad enough to hear that tripe from society, but from your own mother? Poor child, and the countless others in her shoes.
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For those of you worried about the skin color. The baby is already darker than it was when we first saw pictures of it. SO it will probably get a bit darker when it gets older. Also, even though it doesn’t get darker, I am sure it will have at least some of Taye’s features. The only way it will not have Taye’s features is if he drank any water at Neverland.
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Taye Diggs complexion is what makes him stand out from so many other men. I don’t think recognizing this fact makes one a racist. His complexion is beautiful. I simply prefer the presence of color to the absence of it. That’s all.
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Waiting for a baby to “darken up” has got to be the most ignorant thing I’ve heard in quite some time. Congratulations… SMH
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@Seriously D I have to agree!! SMH too WOW
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Onnum@- You really sound ignorant!! How can you say black is beautiful but dissect the beauty. Nappy/Kinky hair is a unique part of black beauty and it should be embraced. If you learned to care for it properly, you would see the beauty in it as well. Please don’t pass this ignorance down to your children.
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Kiki, I am with you. When will it end. So many forms of the “brown paper bag” tests with our people. From skin, to hair, to features. Tired of it. I am not above it all, but have luckily arrived at certain conclusions, acceptance and full appreciation of some things. Will say this, typical or “classic” Black hair with the tightly woven curls takes a little extra to maintain, that’s just fact–she could have been a little more specific in her dislike of it–but the beauty of it can’t be denied for those whose tastes are evolved. I just love the versatility of it myself, so unique.
At any rate–even with the comments that were made about her children’s skin color–seems like only “so much black” or “black lite” flies/gets a pass with some folk–smh. At least she admits her bias, nah, some things are better left unsaid/typed…
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ki ki u are ignorant! I can love black skin but not like nappy hair! That is not degrading blacks because all straight black people dont have nappy hair! Some get and others hair can be very manageble and may not need to be straightened for years! If u read what I said then u would of seen where I said that I took a risk on her having nappy hair and I would of love her just the same. However I am not a person who embraces the NATURAL hair look so when she got old enough it would have gotten straighten! I LOVE BLACK AND AM PROUD OF MY HERITAGE HOWEVER I WILL NOT ALLOW ME OR MY CHILDS HAIR TO BE NAPPY MESS. I WANT THE LENGTH OF THE HAIR TO SHOW NOT THE NATURAL TEXTURE! SO THATS WHY I WOULD STRAIGHTEN THE HAIR. IN MY OPINION IF U CAN TAKE CARE OF NATURAL HAIR THATS ON U, HOWEVER I WANT OUR HAIR TO BE LONG AND FLOWING AND IF IT HAS TO BE STRAIGHTNED TO GET THEN SO BE IT!
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Onnum- All I can do is SMDH!! So sad and the funny part is you don’t even realize how stu…/ignorant you sound.
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@onnum2 I just have one question. When you say “What I didnt want was her to have nappy hair! I cant stand it but its a risk I took. And “I took a risk on her having nappy hair and I would of love her just the same.” What is this risk you keep referring to? “That is not degrading blacks because all straight black people dont have nappy hair!” Straight black people???? Sorry, just trying to understand exactly what your saying aside you not feeling/embracing the NATURAL hair look. Thanks in advance..
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Omg!! I’m pretty sure on this site atleast 98% of the bloggers are grown! What the hell? Arguing about less irrelevant things. Smh…
I can’t see Walker that good, but he is cute enough from what I see.
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Awww look at the baby!
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Can anyone tell me what kind of babystroller that is?
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It’s a Graco stroller
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Wow “nappy” hair?! seriously? So funny how African Americans embrace words that are meant to dehumanize us. Its not nappy hair its natural!! African Americans have a very tight curl pattern hence the “nappy”. I hate that word and black people throw it around like its all goodd. My hair is not nappy its natural and my kids will be natural.
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