Rev Run's baby RIP

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:04 am

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Posted Sep 26th 2006 9:40PM by TMZ Staff
A rapper's wife gave birth Thursday, but the scene quickly turned to tragedy after their newborn girl was pronounced dead.

Rev Run, a.k.a. Joseph Simmons, shocked fans last year when he announced that his wife Justine was pregnant on his MTV reality show "Rev's House."

Justine's pregnancy was the cliffhanger on the MTV show last season. It generated intense interest among viewers who have been anxiously following the pregnancy and awaiting the birth.

Simmons, a member of the legendary rap group Run DMC, was at Valley Hospital in Ridgewood New Jersey Tuesday for the birth of his child. Doctors delivered the baby via c-section, revealing a cruel twist of fate -- the baby girl was born with organs outside the body. The newborn died a short time later.

TMZ has learned that MTV cameras were inside the hospital at the time of the birth, though we do not know if they were in the delivery room.

schadenfreude · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:39 am

Hope Rev Run has edit power and not MTV or we will see it exploited.

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:09 am

How horribly sad! But, the baby's organs were outside of her body? How could that not be detected in an ultrasound?

Dalen · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:34 am

ah man, that's dark. that's rough that it was the focus on that show.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Aural Fixation Wrote:

How horribly sad! But, the baby's organs were outside of her body? How could that not be detected in an ultrasound?

It should have been. Perhaps they didnt have one after 16 weeks or so?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:21 am

Say that reminds me, how'd you get that kid so darn fast? Me and Dot went in to adopt on account a' somethin' went wrong with my semen, and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby. I said, "Healthy white baby? Five years? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a Nigra born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world.

no guru · **Posted:** Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:29 am

Aural Fixation Wrote:

How horribly sad! But, the baby's organs were outside of her body? How could that not be detected in an ultrasound?

My brother's ex-wife (the one who's adopting her crackhead brother's kids and whose current husband used to be the pastor of that church where that dude spiked the coffee with arsenic) had four bad pregnancies before giving birth to a healthy kid. She and Steve have three kids now, but she had three miscarriages and a fourth whose organs were on the outside of the body. They knew in advance how horrible the baby's condition was and opted for abortion, even though they had previously been very anti-abortion. I think my mom still believes the girl died at birth, but the fetus was poisoning my sister-in-law's insides and they had to make the decision to save one life instead of losing two.

It was an awful time, anyhow. She has three teenage kids now, though.

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