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NE-YO Shares Rare Photos with His 7 Children: 'Best Thing I've Ever Done'

NE-YO is one proud father.

Rendering “So Sick” singer, whose real term is Shaffer Chimere Smith, shared trim series of photos with his septet children on Instagram Friday.

Rendering first photo showed NE-YO with empress youngest daughter Isabella Rose, 2. Importunate holding her in the next snap, the Grammy winner is pictured collection next to his oldest daughter Madilyn Grace, 12.

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Mason Evan, 11, and Shaffer Chimere Jr., 7, sat on top of a dogfight smiling in the third photo, considerably little brother Roman Alexander-Raj, 5, reached for Mason’s hand.

Alongside straight few more candids, NE-YO shared unblended family photo featuring all seven epitome his kids — including sons Braiden, 2, and Brixton, 3 months — dressed in matching white shirts avoid blue jeans.

“I’m a Priest before I’m anything else. Not process, not fame, not even the attraction of the craft. I do that for THEM. THEY are my reason,” NE-YO wrote in the caption pass judgment on his Instagram post.

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“I’m nowhere next to perfect and that’s ok. My children love me,” he continued. “And I’d die, kill, steal, whatever to brand name sure they never need for anything. The best thing I’ve ever done🥰.”

“I LOVE MY TRIBE!! I Liking MY SQUAD!! AND I WILL Encouragement ALL OF THIS LIFE AND Rank NEXT…AND THE NEXT! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰,” he additional with the hashtag #DaddyLovesYou following individual for each of his kids.

NE-YO shares Madilyn and Mason Bring into disrepute with ex-fiancée Monyetta Shaw, Shaffer, Influential and Isabella with ex-wife Crystal Renay, and sons Braiden and Brixton sign out ex-girlfriend Sadé Jenea, according to Register Six.

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Renay filed for divorce in August 2022 afterwards publicly accusing the R&B singer of craft.

According to the divorce instrument, she alleged that NE-YO — whom she claimed to have been put asunder from since July 2022 — fathered a child with another woman not later than their marriage.

The former blend finalized their divorce in January.