Earlier than they shocked the Met Gala 2025 purple carpet, Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab have been already having a second. Chatting with Vogue over Zoom simply hours earlier than the massive occasion, Diab mentioned, “It’s game time, baby!”
Nessa Diab and Colin Kaepernick attend the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Could 05, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dia Dipasupil / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Pictures through AFP)(Getty Pictures through AFP)
“This might be our first official time stepping out like this, and also just being parents,” Kaepernick.
The couple welcomed their first baby, a child woman, in the summertime of 2022. “Recovering after delivery has been a journey (more on that later) and honestly I wasn’t going to share anything because this is sooooo personal to us and I realized I’m a complete mama bear,” she posted on Instagram final yr.
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“Colin is the most amazing dad and I’m soooo grateful that he is by our side for every moment of this journey,” Diab expressed.
Nessa and Colin have been collectively since 2015. Collectively, they co-founded the Know Your Rights Camp, a nonprofit centered on empowering Black and Brown communities. In addition they launched Ra Imaginative and prescient Media, a manufacturing firm devoted to elevating tales and abilities from underrepresented voices.
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Born to Egyptian dad and mom who immigrated to the USA earlier than she was born, Diab was raised in Southern California however spent a part of her childhood in Saudi Arabia as a result of her father’s work.
In a 2014 episode of the Man Code podcast, she mirrored, “My dad worked so hard. My dad had like three jobs when he came out to the U.S. [including] security guard. And he had to get his credits from Egypt transferred at UCLA so it could be equivalent to American degrees and whatever.”
“But they just worked really hard. So every time I think I’m working hard, I just remember my parents. My mom used to clean up hotels. Even though she is a scientist, they wouldn’t give her a job because she was supposedly overqualified.”
“Bombings and all that was so normal when I was growing up. Terrorist attacks were always happening in Saudi Arabia. Always,” she mentioned. “We lived in a compound, and I was so used to it.”
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Diab later graduated from the College of California, Berkeley, with a level in mass communications. From there, she carved her personal path in media, beginning with radio gigs at iHeartRadio and Energy 106 in Los Angeles. Her large break got here when she joined MTV as a bunch for Woman Code, which led to extra alternatives throughout MTV and VH1, together with The Actual World, Teen Mother, Snooki & JWoww after-shows, and a number of The Problem reunions.
She’s now some of the recognisable voices on New York’s Scorching 97, the place she hosts Nessa On Air.