Riley Reid Pregnant / Baby

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Riley Reid Pregnant or Riley Reid's Baby, also known as Riley Reid's Kid, refers to adult film star and Riley Reid's pregnancy in 2022 that resulted in the birth of her baby daughter alongside her husband Pavel Petkuns. After the internet first learned about her pregnancy when she was sitting courtside at a Lakers basketball game, reactions and memes ensued. When Reid gave birth in July 2022, more memes surfaced about her daughter Emma, many comparing her to Lana Rhoades' Baby, which similarly inspired memes.

History

On April 7th, 2022, Reid was a guest on THE SH*TSHOW TOO podcast hosted by Julia Rose and Becca. A clip from the podcast was uploaded to YouTube^[1] on the same day where Reid publicly announced for the first time that she was pregnant with Pavel Petkuns' baby. The video received roughly 10,000 views in four months (shown below).

In the interview, Reid revealed how she and Petkuns were only boyfriend and girlfriend when they were discussing pregnancy. Reid insisted that they get married if she were going to have his baby. In late June 2021, the two were then wed. No Jumper CEO adam22 attended the wedding and uploaded a YouTube^[2] video about it on June 23rd, 2022, earning roughly 558,400 views in one year (shown below).

Two days after her appearance on THE SH*TSHOW TOO podcast, Reid attended a Laker's NBA game with Petkuns where they sat courtside. During the game, Oklahoma City player Mason Jones had to jump over Reid when trying to save the ball from going out of bounds. Immediately after happening on air, Twitter^[3] user BulletClubIta tweeted the clip, captioning it, "Mason Jones just bumped into Riley Reid during the Lakers game, lol," and received roughly 111,500 views and over 440 likes in four months (shown below).

Mason Jones just bumped into Riley Reid during the Lakers game, lol pic.twitter.com/BMBJUKFVID

— Italo Santana (@BulletClubIta) April 9, 2022

On April 11th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user chiweethegod quote retweeted BulletClubIta's tweet, captioning it, "This is how I found out rap artist Riley Reid was pregnant," in reference to Reid's subjectively cringy "8 Ball Shawty" rap video^[5] where she uttered the N-word multiple times. The quote retweet received over 670 likes in four months and is one of the first known memes about Reid's pregnancy (shown below).

this is how I found out rap artist Riley Reid was pregnant https://t.co/pKAN0LaRTw

— 𝚁𝚘𝚢 𝙳𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝙹𝚛 (@chiweethegod) April 11, 2022

Reid's unlikely pregnancy reveal at the Lakers game inspired many reactions on Twitter^[6] going into the remainder of April 2022, however, most received little engagement.

Riley Reid's Daughter is Born July 2022

On July 4th, 2022, Reid posted on Instagram,^[12] revealing that her baby, Emma, was born, earning roughly 92,800 likes in one month. Also on July 4th, her husband posted on Instagram,^[13] additionally revealing the birth and sharing multiple images of Reid, Emma and himself (shown below). His post received roughly 143,000 likes in the same time period.

On July 4th, 2022, Reid posted a TikTok ^[7] video to her official yet unverified account rileyreidtiktok. It showed her and her husband Pavel performing a TikTok dance to a Jack Harlow song while she was still pregnant. Over the course of one month, the video received roughly 9.5 million plays and 415,900 likes (shown below, left). TikTokers in the comment section humorously compared Reid's baby to Lana Rhoades' Son, for instance, one comment from TikToker master_lean_gamer read, "now lana Rhoades son have a new rival," earning roughly 105,700 likes in one month. On July 5th, 2022, TikToker^[14] wpeaceandluv posted a video that showed a slideshow of the baby images, earning roughly 1.6 million plays and 30,900 likes in one month (shown below, right).

On July 22nd, 2022, Twitter^[8] user lherealchieff tweeted, "Putting a baby in Riley Reid is one of the most insane things you could as a man," and attached a screenshot of Reid's TikTok, earning over 1,000 likes in two weeks.

On August 30th, 2022, Reid posted another TikTok^[10] that she had recorded when she was still pregnant, earning roughly 5.5 million plays and 288,500 likes in five days (shown below, left). On August 2nd, 2022, Reid posted another TikTok,^[11] writing in the caption, "Pregnancy life at its finest." The TikTok received roughly 594,800 plays and 73,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).

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