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'RHOA' Friend Monyetta Shaw Shares Two Kids with Ex Ne-Yo

Monyetta Shaw is showing on 'RHOA' Season 14 as a friend of Kandi Burruss'. The newlywed has two kids with her ex, singer Ne-Yo.

Shannon Raphael - Author

The forged line-up on The Real Housewives of Atlanta changed considerably after Season Thirteen following the departures of Porsha Williams and Cynthia Bailey, and viewers are getting to grasp a couple of new additions to the forged.

Longtime "friend" Marlo Hampton in any case got a peach on Season 14, however there is a new supporting famous person on the most recent season of the show: Monyetta Shaw.

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She's connected to the crowd because of her long-standing friendship with singer, actress, and businesswoman Kandi Burruss. The two first were given to understand one another when the creator/Season 14 "friend" used to be in a courting with musician Ne-Yo.

As Kandi shared at the June 26 episode of the hit Bravo franchise, she become friendly with Monyetta when she used to be dating Ne-Yo, but the two stayed involved as a result of she has "positive vibes."

Who is Monyetta Shaw? Read on to determine more about her non-public lifestyles, including her kids with Ne-Yo, and her new husband.

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Who is Monyetta Shaw from 'RHOA'?

The Season 14 addition hails from Louisiana, and she or he attended Louisiana Tech University. Though many RHOA audience are meeting her for the primary time at the Bravo sequence, Monyetta is no stranger to fact TV programming.

In 2014, ahead of she began to appear on RHOA, Monyetta starred on the first and best season of the VH1 fact sequence, Atlanta Exes.

Outside of her TV pursuits, Monyetta may be the founding father of The Evan Grace Group, a maintaining company focusing on the development of manufacturers in publishing, type, and leisure.

As Kandi discussed on the display, Monyetta is a printed creator as well. She wrote a motivational memoir, Bigger than Me, and the co-parenting recommendation e-book, Keep It Classy: Co-Parenting Strategies for Unstoppable Moms and Devoted Dads.

She also penned the kids books, The Adventures Of Maddie: Meet Maddie and The Chronicles of Nice Guy Maso (and there are coloring book versions of every e book, too), which can be named after her two kids.

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The Season 14 "friend" has two kids with her ex-partner, Ne-Yo.

Monyetta began relationship Ne-Yo, who is known for hits like "Closer," "Because of You," "Miss Independent," "So Sick," and "She Knows," in 2009.

In June of 2010, while talking with Ebony, Ne-Yo showed that he was expecting his first child with Monyetta.

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Just a few months later, on Nov. 12, 2010, their first daughter together, Madilyn "Maddie" Grace Smith, arrived. Less than a year after that, the two was oldsters for the second one time when their son, Mason Evan Smith, was once born on Oct. 9, 2011. The pair reportedly were given engaged in the same yr that their son was born as smartly.

After dwelling together, welcoming two children, and getting engaged, Ne-Yo and Monyetta broke up in 2012. Ne-Yo has since married Crystal Renay Smith (née Williams), they usually proportion three kids in combination as neatly.

Monyetta has also gotten married since she split up from the singer.

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Monyetta Shaw is now married to husband Heath Carter.

About a decade after she parted tactics from Ne-Yo, the truth celebrity and mother of two got married to businessman Heath Carter at The Biltmore Ballrooms in Atlanta on Nov. 7, 2021.

Monyetta wore a blush robe for the development, and her now-husband wore a white tuxedo jacket with black pants.

Her pal Kandi was in attendance, as was Kandi's husband Todd Tucker, and her former Xscape bandmate, Tiny Harris. Tiny's husband, T.I. went to the marriage, as did different stars like Nicole Murphy, Eudoxie, and Angela Simmons.

Once Heath and Monyetta wed, they officially blended their families together. Monyetta's two kids were a big part of the nuptials, as was once Heath's daughter, GiGi.

You can see Monyetta on RHOA. New episodes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta air on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo. You can also move the sequence on Peacock.

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