Christina Milian’s boyfriend, Matt Pokora, faced some heavy backlash for seemingly comparing her daughter Violet’s hairstyle to the microbe emoji, many calling the joke racist. On Thursday, Matt, who is also the father of Christina’s second child, Isaiah, posted a video of 10-year-old Violet on his Instagram story. In the clip, Matt filmed Violet while she had her hair up in Bantu knots, as she asked him “what are you doing?” When he posted the video, he added a microbe emoji in the caption, along with a laughing emoji and a heart emoji. He even felt the need to draw an arrow from the microbe pointing at Violet’s hairstyle, seemingly implying that her hairstyle bears a resemblance to the symbol.

Many folks were outraged by the comparison, especially since the microbe emoji has come to be used across the Internet to represent the coronavirus. The implication that her hair “looks” like or even “is” a virus or disease was offensive to some people, especially since Matt is a white man mocking a young black girl’s hairstyle.

Matt later took to his IG stories again to shared some videos of himself and Violet to prove how close they are. The french musician posted a clip of Violet heading off to school with the caption, “Self confidence on point.” In the video, he tells Violet to “have a great day, be great, you’re a winner.” He shared some more videos of a similar nature, demonstrating how supportive he is of his honorary step-daughter. He has yet to directly address the microbe-hair-comparison controversy

It’s hard to believe Christina Milian gave birth to her son, Isaiah, only one month ago, considering how snatched her post-baby body looks in her latest Instagram post. The singer welcomed her first child with her boyfriend, French singer Matt Pokora, last month on January 20th, and she’s already working hard to “bounce back” to her pre-pregnancy body. On Thursday, Christina shared a few snaps of her new Fashion Nova jumpsuit (she’s a sponsored partner for the brand) on Instagram, showing off her incredible post-baby physique.

In the caption of the post, Christina tells the tale about how all her dreams came true when she was signed to Def Jam at 18 years old. “Lookin’ like I’m ready to hit the stage,” she wrote. “Fun Fact: When I was a teen I dreamed of being signed to Def Jam.. every cd I owned, every group, rapper or singer I played in my car was majority Def Jam artist. From that point I set my intentions. And with my Mom-Manager by my side at 18 I signed my first record deal to be @islanddefjam’s 1st ‘urban pop’ artist. It was a dream come true.” While the story is certainly inspiring, many of her fans could only focus on how unreal she looked.

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“Damn! Did u even have a baby?!!!! Lol,” one of her followers exclaimed. “The snap back,” another wrote in the comments. “How much weight have you lost already? You look amazing,” asked another user. A few weeks ago, Christina opened up about her struggles not only with looking like her pre-baby self again, but also with regaining her confidence. On yet another Fashion Nova-sponsored post, Christina wrote, “OK here it goes… Three weeks post pregnancy and I’m feeling better everyday.”

“In the beginning I was kind of worried because my body after baby was retaining SO MUCH water—I’d look in the mirror and be like ‘wtf I look like Spongebob'” she joked. “I’d also enjoyed my [pregnancy] body so much. I missed it and felt I looked better when I was pregnant for sure.. However I tried not to let those thoughts get the best of me and had to accredit myself for the 9 months of making an actual human! And with faith, hydration, breast feeding and not being so damn sprung on looks—my confidence is gained day by day.”

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She also made sure to give a shoutout to her man, “who has been my ride or die through this & shows me so much love and appreciation…Honestly I couldn’t have asked for a better partner to experience this with. His support has gotten me through the drab days. U da best!
I’m gonna wrap this up.. sending big love to all you women out there. You’re all incredible beings that are capable of anything! Know this. Love you. Keep loving yourself. And [props] to the men/partners that support them.”

A congratulations are in order for singer Christina Milian and her boyfriend Matt Pokora, as the pair have officially welcomed their newborn baby boy today!

Named Isaiah, which comes from Hebrew origin and means “God is salvation,” Christina’s new bundle of joy looks just as “simply perfect” as she describes him as in her Instagram reveal post seen above. “And so we begin,” Milian wrote to describe the journey she’s about to endure as a mommy of two. As we all know, the “AM To PM” singer has a 9-year-old daughter, Violet Madison, from her previous relationship with super producer The-Dream. This is the first child for her and Pokora, who’s also a singer and made his claim to fame on the international singing competition series Popstars in 2003 as a member of the group Linkup before becoming a solo star in his own right a year later. The pair have been dating since 2017.

Congrats again to both Christina Milian and Matt Pokora on the new baby boy, in addition to Violet Madison who is now officially a big sister! While this means we won’t be getting anymore beautiful preggo pics from Christina on the ‘Gram (yet!), take a look below at some of our faves throughout her most recent pregnancy journey: