They often flaunt their love on social media, so it's no surprise that Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union like to keep things spicy in the bedroom. The two superstars have been the center of parenting conversations as of late after Dwyane came forward and announced that their 12-year-old son Zion is transgender and would now be his daughter named Zaya. The world weighed in—heavily—about the topic, but Wades have stood firm in support of the pre-teen.
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Dwyane has been making the promotional rounds not only to speak about Zaya but to discuss to forthcoming ESPN documentary D. Wade: Life Unexpected. During a visit to Bravo TV's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the host asked a personal question about Dwayne and Gaby's sex life.
"You and Gaby, to keep it hot, you do a lot of role play. What kind of role play do you do?" Andy asked. "We go out at night, we be strangers. And I get into character. I'm talkin' 'bout, I'm grabbin' hair—," Dwyane said as he tugged at the other guest's long hair. They both laughed and Dwyane apologized. "Oh, I'm fine!" she said.
"But, yeah, we do role play. We keep it fresh, we keep it exciting," Dwyane continued. "You know, you can get into a routine sometimes and you'll be like 'tomorrow' and then tomorrow will go into two months when you ain't get no action. So we gotta do role play. Sometimes it's like, gon' ahead, take your closes off and go walk down the street. Let's take it back to Rodeo Drive, baby." Watch Dwyane Wade's Watch What Happens Live clip below.
Dwyane Wade: Zaya’s Gender Identity Was Tough To Talk About
In a new interview with Good Morning America, Dwayne Wade recounts how he struggled, at first, to open up about his daughter Zaya's transition.
Dwyane Wade and his daughter Zaya have been making headlines over the last week due to the revelation that Zaya is trans and identifies as a female. At 12 years old, Zaya has been able to recognize her gender identity and has been making strides to educate her parents on how she feels. Wade has taken this all in stride and has been as supportive as one could imagine.
Recently, Wade sat down with Robin Roberts Good Morning America where he spoke on his brand new documentary. D.Wade: Life Unexpected takes a look at the basketball player’s hectic life. Zaya is a major part of the documentary and as Wade described, he felt a little uneasy about talking about her transition, at first.
“I struggled on how much I wanted to talk about it in the doc,” Wade said. “I actually didn’t talk about it a lot, but I knew if I put it in the doc at all, it would be a big conversation…We struggled with what people would say about a 12-year-old making a decision about her life. But we also know our child.”
Eventually, Wade came around on the idea of opening up because he knew it would help people out there. He figured that if people were going through something similar, they would be able to relate to him and his family’s story.
“We’ve been through so many different things that other people and other families go through and they thank us for speaking out on it,” Wade said. “That’s what we’re trying to do. We know there are other families out there dealing with their kid finding themselves and learning who they are.”
Wade says Zaya was very self-aware of herself early on and new that she was different from everyone else. The former basketball star says Zaya would talk things out with her parents often which eventually led to her discovery. Thanks to the power of research, Zaya was able to learn about herself and it eventually made it a lot easier to talk with her parents.
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“Zaya, early on, knew two things: She knew straight and she knew gay,” Wade went on to say. “But Zaya started doing more research. She is the one who sat down with us, as a family, and said, ‘Hey, I don’t think I’m gay.’ She went down a list and said, ‘This is how I identify myself. This is my gender identity. I identify myself as a young lady. I identify as straight trans because I like boys.'”
Admittedly, Wade says he needed to check himself once Zaya came out as he needed to fully understand what she was going through. Throughout his career, Wade has used words in the locker room that would be regarded as offensive in today's climate. Being aware of that, Wade says he knew he had to change his behaviors in order to become a better father. Needless to say, Wade has come a long way over the years and will do absolutely anything to make sure his child feels loved.
Dwyane Wade Recalls Telling Gabrielle Union About Baby With Other Woman
Dwyane Wade fathered a child with a woman back in 2013 while he and Gabrielle Union were on a break.
There have been plenty of noteworthy moments in Dwyane Wade’s life, and ESPN hopes to tackle as many as possible in the forthcoming documentary D. Wade: Life Unexpected. The film is set to premiere on February 23, but ahead of its release, there have been bits shared with the media. Entertainment Tonight reports that the documentary will cover a heavy moment of Dwyane’s personal life: When he had to tell Gabrielle Union that he fathered a child with another woman.
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“I had a child with someone else and I had to tell her. Hardest thing I’ve ever had to do is man up and tell Gabrielle Union that I’ve had a child with somebody else,” he said according to Entertainment Tonight. “I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t eating.” Dwyane added, “When you hold something in that you know is going to come out and you have this information and you know it’s gonna f*ck somebody’s life up, that you care about, that you love, if it don’t hurt you, then you’re not human... Me and Gab just went through something that you never want to go through and we still came out of it.
The basketball icon reportedly impregnated another woman while he and Gabrielle were on a break. His son Xavier was born in 2013 and Dwyane and Gabrielle were married in 2014. He revealed that his children helped him propose to his now-wife. “She wasn’t just marrying me, she was marrying all this baggage,” he said. Watch a brief promo below of ESPN’s Dwyane Wade documentary D. Wade: Life Unexpected.
