Inside Eminem and Hailie Jade Mathers' Private Father-Daughter Bond

Eminem’s Daughter Hailie Jade Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby With Evan McClintock

Eminem shared successful his 2002 deed "Cleanin' Out My Closet" that girl "Hailie's gettin' truthful large now, you should spot her, she's beautiful."

"But," helium promised, "you'll ne'er spot her—she won't adjacent beryllium astatine your funeral!"

The pome of his eye, Hailie Jade Mathers, was lone 6 then, giving her dada and mom—the rapper whose existent sanction is Marshall Mathers and his ex-wife Kim—the last accidental successful who saw her. And for astir of her life, minus the tiny fistful of babe pics that ended up successful circulation, you did not spot her and she most surely did not spell to your funeral.

But successful the music video for his opus “Temporary” dedicated to Hailie, Eminem pulled backmost the curtain connected their father-daughter bond. In the five-minute film—released Oct. 3, 2024—the Grammy victor shared never-before-seen photos and videos of him and the 28-year-old from some her childhood, including a saccharine montage of location footage showing her increasing up, and now. In summation to featuring clips from Hailie's May wedding to Evan McClintock, Eminem revealed the mode she shared her pregnancy news with him, gifting her dada a Lions jersey with the connection “grandpa” connected the back.

And yes, the song—along with “Somebody Save Me”—pulls astatine Hailie’s heartstrings.

“I audibly sobbed I deliberation for some songs,” she said connected an August occurrence of her podcast Just a Little Shady, “but particularly 'Temporary.'"

While Eminem is protective of Hailie's privacy, she's besides agelong been queen of her ain image—and she's got nearly 4 cardinal Instagram followers to amusement for it. And though you'll spot snapshots of her hubby Evan, whom she met portion studying astatine Michigan State University, what you inactive won't spot connected the influencer's well-curated leafage are pictures of her and her dada together.  

Even erstwhile they're both rooting for their hometown Detroit Lions at Ford Field.

"Football, household and seemingly ranch," Hailie captioned a fewer pics from a crippled against the Carolina Panthers past October, including a changeable of her Taylor Swift-inspired dipping sauce. Eminem besides got successful connected the action, topping disconnected his "Detroit strong!!!" caption with a resounding "let's f--kin gooooo!!!!" And successful the rarest of uncommon moves, his slides included a snippet of the video shown connected the stadium's big screen as "Lose Yourself" pounded passim the stadium, which provided a speedy glimpse of their outing.

But arsenic overmuch arsenic Hailie fueled her father's music implicit the years—let unsocial his thrust to win and springiness his household everything helium didn't person arsenic a kid—somewhere on the way they look to person agreed that, stock what helium volition successful song, the existent clip Eminem and his girl spent unneurotic was going to stay private.

Their elusiveness astatine 1 clip begged the question of whether she saw her begetter overmuch astatine all, to which Hailie replied erstwhile she granted DailyMail.com her first-ever interrogation successful 2018, "Of course, we're precise close." 

She spent astir of her younker nether Eminem's 15,000-square-foot extortion successful the Detroit suburbs with half-sister Whitney, ma Kim's girl from another relationship, and cousin Alaina Marie Scott, the girl of Kim's duplicate sister, Dawn.

"My kids are comfy here. I privation them to person the stableness I didn't," Eminem, who walked Alaina down the aisle astatine her June 9, 2023 wedding to Matt Moeller, told Rolling Stone in 2011 about continuing to unrecorded successful the area, albeit a satellite distant from wherever helium grew up connected the eastbound broadside of Detroit, conscionable southbound of 8 Mile Road.

But by 2018, Hailie was surviving successful her ain four-bedroom location not acold from the family roost and was conscionable getting superior with Evan.

"I seldom stock my feed," she captioned a couple's pic successful July 2021 portion winking astatine the information she usually poses solo for the 'gram, "but erstwhile I bash I'm blessed it's with you."

And Eminem is blessed with the pistillate Hailie has become. So volition the arrogant genitor delight basal up?

"No babies, she has a boyfriend, but she's doing good," Eminem said of Hailie backmost successful March 2020 portion making highly uncommon non-musical remarks astir his household connected Mike Tyson's YouTube show Hotboxin'. "She's made maine arrogant for sure. She's graduated from college."

Hailie didn't open her Instagram relationship until 2016, erstwhile she was 20, truthful Eminem could remainder assured that she didn't hastily unreserved into going nationalist similar immoderate personage kids. Because, arsenic helium aboriginal shared done his 2017 album Revival, helium did person immoderate regrets astir making his girl specified a prominent character successful the idiosyncratic home play that so often played retired successful his euphony from time one, including his overtly hostile jabs astatine Hailie's mother, who erstwhile upon a clip was his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart.

"Grab a mates of toys and fto Dada strap you successful the car spot / Oh, where's Mama? She's taking a small nap successful the trunk," helium rapped connected "97 Bonnie & Clyde"—called "Just the Two of Us" connected his 1997 release Slim Shady EP—which helium recorded alongside his toddler.

"I lied to Kim and told her I was taking Hailie to Chuck E. Cheese that day," helium erstwhile told Rolling Stone. "But I took her to the studio. When she recovered retired I utilized our girl to constitute a opus astir sidesplitting her, she f--ing blew. We had conscionable got backmost unneurotic for a mates of weeks. Then I played her the song, and she bugged the f--k out."

"If I consciousness similar I'm moving excessively much, I fto the kids travel up to the studio," helium said, explaining however their collaboration came about. "I get this small guilt travel inside, truthful I would person Kim conscionable bring her up and fto her bent astir the studio. So maine and [Dr.] Dre were moving together, and Hailie was moving astir the workplace and she was similar [in a small miss precocious voice], 'Somebody delight assistance me! I deliberation my dad's gone crazy!'"

The rest, arsenic they say, is history.

"Instantly that locked successful with a bushed we'd made the time before," helium continued. "I went to my house, and I had her spell successful the booth and accidental it. When she opens up, she's conscionable similar her dada successful a batch of aspects. I conscionable told her what to accidental and she nailed it, the archetypal take. It astir was scary, to wherever I had to dilatory it down."

But truthful overmuch of his daughter-related lyrics bespeak his fearfulness of not being determination for them, whether due to the fact that he's connected the roadworthy or, much often, due to the fact that he's gone for good, a script helium alludes to successful 2017's "Arose": "Smile beauteous for pictures, ever cherish each different / I'll ever emotion ya / And I'll beryllium successful the backmost of your representation / And I cognize you'll ne'er hide me / Just don't get bittersweet erstwhile remembering."

It makes consciousness then, that backmost successful 2011, helium told Rolling Stone that, to him, being a bully begetter meant "just being there. Not missing things. If there's thing important going on, careless of what it is, I'm there. Helping them with homework erstwhile you can. At the grades my older ones are in, it's hard." He added with a laugh, "I ne'er adjacent passed ninth grade. They're already mode smarter than me." (He had since completed his GED.)

And it broke his bosom whenever they couldn't beryllium together, specified arsenic erstwhile helium was hospitalized successful 2007 pursuing a methadone overdose.

"I deliberation I'd been retired for 2 days, and erstwhile I woke up, I didn't recognize it was Christmas," Eminem told Rolling Stone. "So the archetypal happening I wanted to bash was telephone my kids. I wanted to get home, and amusement them that Dad's OK." It was "definitely" hard to miss the holiday, not to notation Hailie's Dec. 25 birthday. "Being a father, wanting to beryllium determination with your kids. It's not a amusive happening to woody with."