Tiffany Haddish has been candid about her desire to have kids over the years.
In November 2020, Haddish, who was then dating Common, shared that she wanted to either “foster” or “adopt” kids.
“I just want to bring to them survival skills, share everything that I know with them,” she explained on Common’s podcast “Mind Power Mixtape” at the time. “I definitely want to either foster kids or adopt and get them at, like, 7 — where they know how to use the bathroom already on their own, they can communicate, they can tell you they’re hungry. They should have some kind of manners, and if not, they can learn them.”
Nearly five years later, Haddish and her longtime friend Jason Lee sparked rumors that they welcomed a baby together after posing with an infant in social media photos.
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“Cats out the bag 
,” Lee captioned their joint Instagram post in August 2025, which included a photo of Haddish holding the little one and another of Lee hugging Haddish and gripping a stroller.
Keep scrolling to learn more about what Haddish has said about wanting kids throughout the years:
On Being Afraid to Have Kids
In July 2020, Haddish shared that she wanted to have kids — but was hesitant about it due to racism.
“I’m a little older now and people are always asking when I’m gonna have some babies,” she told Carmelo Anthony on an episode of “What’s In Your Glass?” She continued, “There’s a part of me that would like to do that, and I always make up these excuses like, ‘Oh, I need a million dollars in the bank before I do that, I need this, I need that.’”
The comedian explained that it’s really because she would “hate to give birth to someone that looks like me knowing that they’re gonna be hunted or killed.”
“Like, why would I put someone through that?” she added, noting that “white people don’t have to think about that” when planning their families. “It’s time to talk about that, and how we have to come together as a community and work as a unit — and maybe we don’t all agree on the same things, but we need to just find some common ground and move forward as human beings.”
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On Wanting to Foster or Adopt Older Children
During an episode of her ex-boyfriend Common’s “Mind Power Mixtape” podcast in November 2020, Haddish said she wants to either “foster or adopt kids” around ages 6 through 10 because then you can “mold their mind.”
“They’re still malleable in a lot of ways until they’re 21, that’s what I think,” she explained.
On Enrolling in Parenting Classes
While appearing on E!’s Daily Pop in May 2021, Haddish shared that she’s “taking parenting classes” to “adopt” a child.
“I’m looking at, you know, 5 and up — really like 7,” she clarified. “I want them to be able to know how to use the restroom on their own and talk. I want them to know that I put in the work and I wanted them.”
Haddish also revealed why she preferred adoption over surrogacy.
“I don’t wanna pay nobody to carry my baby neither, ‘cause then I have to go through a process of giving myself injections and all that stuff,” she said. “And I already gave up — here goes something everybody don’t know, I’m gonna tell you: When I was 21 I was really hard up for some money and I gave up a bunch of eggs.”
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Haddish said she might have “some kids” out on the streets, but she doesn’t believe it because she “never got the bonus.”
“Maybe somewhere though, in cryo somewhere!” she joked, noting that if she got pregnant right now that would be “all God.”
“I have taken the precaution to protect,” she said. “Now, if that did happen, we gon’ hire some help, then we’re gonna cry a lot. … And I’m not gonna be ‘baby mama,’ I’m gonna be ‘wife.’”
On Wanting to Give a Child Her ‘Knowledge’ and ‘Love’
In November 2021, Haddish said she had to put the adoption process on “pause” after her business “picked up,” explaining that, when she has a child, she really needs to “be able to focus on them.”
“I want to raise it,” she exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “I want to raise the child. I want to give the child my knowledge and my love. So I want to finish up a few more things, so that I can really focus. It’s one thing to have a dog and a garden and take care of that. But to have another human being that needs me and that I’m responsible for I want to be present. I want to be all the way present. I don’t want somebody else doing that work.”
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Haddish couldn’t help but gush about what she is most looking forward to when it comes to starting a family, however.
“Sharing everything that I know and pouring it into them and watching it manifest through their actions and their abilities,” she said. “Also having somebody to watch TV with and laugh with that thinks I’m cool. Even if it’s only for a few years, kids are thinking for just a little while. Also somebody to teach all my recipes to and to be able to share this life, share this journey, with. [Somebody I can] be a beacon for and a safe place.”
On Her Experiences With Miscarriages and Fertility Struggles
In July 2023, Haddish revealed that she had suffered numerous miscarriages on her journey to start a family.
“I had a lot of miscarriages. That has a lot to do with the endometriosis and misdiagnosis and all that stuff,” she said during an episode of Rachel Bilson’s “Broad Ideas” podcast. “Those miscarriages were as painful as a motherf*****. I feel like a piece of my soul died every time. I don’t know if I am capable and I feel like that was God’s birth control [telling me], ‘He is not the one. That is not who you are supposed to be having a baby with.’”
On Having a Kid With Jason Lee
Prior to possibly welcoming a child with Lee in August 2025, Haddish and Lee previously talked about the possibility of having a baby together.
“You did promise me you would give me a kid,” Lee, who is gay, said on his “Hollywood Unlocked” podcast in November 2024. “So let me ask you a question. So I had Cardi B here, she’s already said she’ll be my kid’s godmother. You said you would give me a kid. Are you serious about that?”
Haddish said “yes,” and added that she wanted to talk about the “cost of” having a baby after Lee said he didn’t want to “do it the old-fashioned way.”