Jessica White is speaking candidly about grief, fertility struggles, and motherhood, while also revisiting the emotional fallout from her past relationship with Nick Cannon.
In a new interview with Essence, the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star opened up about losing her son, Makoa Aaru Preston Wong, just before Thanksgiving in 2025. White described the experience as devastating, but said it ultimately reshaped her emotionally and spiritually. “A woman remains a mother even after miscarriage,” she told the outlet. “Motherhood begins with love, and it doesn’t end with a birth certificate.”
White’s latest interview adds another chapter to a fertility journey she has discussed publicly for years. The model has revealed that she experienced six miscarriages, including a pregnancy loss during her complicated, on-and-off relationship with Cannon around 2021.
She later learned she had a large uterine fibroid and a 10-centimeter cyst that made it difficult to carry a pregnancy to term, leading her to pursue IVF treatments while also addressing serious reproductive health complications.
White previously described the relationship with Cannon as emotionally painful and, at times, unbalanced, saying she felt unsupported after suffering a miscarriage while Cannon was simultaneously preparing to welcome another child with Brittany Bell.
White previously said she discovered news of that pregnancy through Instagram shortly after her own loss.
Cannon later acknowledged the criticism surrounding their relationship, saying he still loved White and accepted responsibility for the pain connected to their breakup.
White, meanwhile, has spent the years since focusing heavily on healing, wellness, and spirituality. In the Essence interview, she explained that grief pushed her deeper into studying fertility care, herbal healing, and holistic wellness. She eventually became a licensed doula and hypnosis practitioner after years of battling stage four endometriosis and Hashimoto’s disease.
“He taught me boundaries,” White said of her late son during the interview. “The amount of wisdom that I have right now, I wouldn’t trade it for the world.”
She also spoke openly about the realities of healing after loss, rejecting the idea that recovery should look polished or inspirational. “Healing is not going to be something clean,” she said. “It’s messy, and it’s not linear.”
White credited her husband, Nathan Wong, with helping her survive the emotional aftermath of the miscarriage. The couple, now living in Sonoma, California, has decided to move forward with surrogacy rather than another pregnancy.
White explained that her focus is no longer on carrying a child herself, but on building a healthy future for the family they hope to have together.
