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Kaavia James, the 3-year-old daughter of Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, has earned her nickname Shady Baby. The kid is one of the funniest, most entertaining, and most adorable kids you’ll see on Instagram, and we’ve got several examples to prove it.
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Shady Baby, as her parents have dubbed her on social media, always keeps it real, whether she’s letting her mom know she’s having some breathing problems or teasing her parents in photos. “He’s like the George Carlin of babies,” Union said said in an interview with Ellen Degeneres in May 2020. “This is our little nugget. It’s pure comedy, but absolutely dead-ass, dead serious, she’s just stone-faced. The actress added that Kaavia “is cool she is not impressed at all.”
There’s even a book about Kaavia’s shadow (which was a New York Times bestseller)! Union and Wade wrote an illustrated tribute to their little one called Shady Baby, which is about empowering children to stand up for themselves and others.
Shadow, Union noted, is Kaavia’s “superpower.” “When Kaavia looks at you, it’s either you’re not respecting her boundaries or something she doesn’t like is going on,” Union said. explained to PEOPLE. “The main thing is that she’s free to be this amazing, dynamic, sometimes dark, sometimes loving black girl when the world hasn’t been so kind to black girls and women.”
Here are many more moments of Kaavia expressing herself. Shady Baby forever and ever.
