On Tuesday’s episode of Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham’s podcast, “Ladies Like Us”, rapper T.I. revealed that he takes his 18-year-old daughter to the doctor every year to “check her hymen” and make sure it’s “still intact” and other celebs have some thoughts about this…
In case you were living under a rock yesterday and were fortunate enough not to be subjected to this news, T.I. revealed that he takes his daughter to a gynecologist every year to check if her hymen is “still intact”.
Ghastly, I know.
He was interviewed on an episode of a podcast hosted by Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham called, “Ladies Like Us” that aired on Tuesday.
T.I. was asked by the hosts if he has had the “sex talk” with his daughters, to which he responded: “Yes,” specifically referring to his daughter Deyjah Harris who has recently started college.
“Not only have we had the conversation. We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen,” he said.
“Deyjah is a prisoner,” one of the hosts joked .
“Yes, I go with her,” T.I. said, explaining that after Deyjah’s 16th birthday, he left a sticky note on her door that read: “Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30.”
“So we’ll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk, and the doctor’s maintaining a high level of professionalism,” he said .
“He’s like, ‘Well, you know, sir, I have to, in order to share information’ — I’m like, ‘Deyjah, they want you to sign this, so we can share information. Is there anything you would not want me to know?”
“‘Oh OK. See, doc? Ain’t no problem.'”
The gynecologist explained to T.I that his daughter’s hymen can be broken by other means outside of sexual intercourse — doing things like riding a bike, horseback riding, or other physical activities.
“‘Look doc, she don’t ride no horses. She don’t ride no bike. She don’t play no sports,” T.I. told the doctor.
“Just check the hymen please and give me back my results — expeditiously,” he added.
“I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact,” he proudly told the hosts .
Anyway, T.I.’s comments have been sweeping the internet since yesterday, consequently sparking a justified amount of backlash from fans and fellow celebrities.
People are reacting the way they should .
Iggy Azalea spoke up in a since-deleted tweet:
“Unfortunately, he is dead serious,” she wrote . “Really I wish the women who interviewed him would have said something to him. He has serious control issues with women in all aspects of his life & needs therapy.”
Actress Ellen Barkin weighed in with this hilarious comment, letting T.I. know he may be in for a very rude awakening:
This tweet is everything .
I want to print it out, frame it, and hang it on my wall — that’s how great it is.
Sharon Osbourne used T.I.’s remarks as a talking point on “The Talk” yesterday.
“Firstly, he should never ever be talking about his daughter’s sex life, ever,” Sharon said . “On a podcast? I think it’s freaky he would go to the gynecologist with his daughter and to talk about it.”
“Don’t talk about your kids’ sex life, about what’s going on in their body, it is sacred to them. It’s not your life,” she added.
“Because you’re the daddy doesn’t give you other rights, its not your life, let your daughter lead her own life. And keep her privacy.”
Eve, who has known T.I. “for years” expressed her disappointment as well: “Obviously, hearing this, it’s very shocking,” she said.
“Those appointments — while I think it is okay for a dad to have those conversations with your daughter about sexual situations — her time with her doctor, that’s her private time. You’re infringing on her freedom, her body. He doesn’t own her and that’s where I come in with that situation .”
Chrissy Teigen tweeted in disbelief.
T.I. and the state of his daughter’s hymen are two things none of us expected to be talking about this week. Or ever.
Conan O’Brien was pretty savage.
Okay, nothing that savage about joking about not knowing what a hymen actually is, but the joke about having to google T.I. himself is pretty good.
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Wendy Williams talked about it on her show too.
“I would feel violated, 18, even if it was my mom and I got along with her, much less my dad,” Wendy said.
Wendy also pointed out that the two hosts T.I. was talking to were both laughing.
Wendy stated that if she had been doing the interview she would have been shocked by his answer. “There was nobody applauding. There has to be a certain amount of trust you have in your kids.”
“When you’re 18 years old, a lot of people were already having sex by 18. I was 17.”
“I think the control he is having over her is very sexist, like it’s fine for the young boy but not for her,” she continued. “T.I., back off your daughter like that.”
Wendy even brought T.I.’s wife into it.
“I don’t know what Tiny says about this, but there’s nobody on social media who’s agreeing with him,” Wendy said.
Anyway, I’ll leave you with this PSA: It’s 2019, stop trying to control women’s bodies. That is all.
Let us know what you think of T.I.’s visits with his daughter to the gynecologist to check if she is still a virgin.
