Niki Taylor to try for another baby within the year

Model Niki Taylor recently did an interview with Us Magazine while promoting her new show Hottest Mom in America, due to air next year. Niki divulged during the interview that she would love to have more kids and plans to start trying for another baby by the end of the year. Although she didn’t give specific numbers, Niki said she doesn’t just want one more, she wants a few more.

Niki has twin 12 year old boys, Jake and Hunter, from her previous marriage. Niki and race car driver Burney Lamar wed December 27th of last year.

Source: usmagazine.com

Niki’s twins and her future baby will be 13+ years apart. How far apart are your kids – or how far apart are you from your siblings? What are the pros and cons of your spacing?

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oh i would love for her to have another, maybe 2. her family and I have mutual friends and I know how difficult it was when she was involved in the car accident a few years back. its great she is happy again! she would have the most beautiful little girl!

- tink1217 on March 20th, 2007

My brother & I are 14 years apart. He was a surprise but very very much wanted. I am kind of like a mom but also a friend. We are very close & he can tell me things he can’t tell our mom. And I loved taking care of him when he was a baby. I miss him being a baby. Sometimes I forget he is 14 now.

- Lynn on March 20th, 2007

My first two are 22 months apart, and, then the last one is 6 years younger than the youngest.

It’s all what you make of it!

- Busy Mom on March 20th, 2007

Here’s a crazy story, when my best friend Jay was born, her mother was 19 years old. In 2004, my friend (19 at the time) and her mother got pregnant at the same time. Her mother had just turn 40 when her son was born and Jay had just turn 20 and had her son three months later.

So not only is she 20 years older than her brother, he’s three months older than his nephew.

I have the pictures to prove it for those non-believers out there.

- Peavy on March 20th, 2007

Our 4 are 14yrs, 12yrs, 3yrs & 8 months. It’s a lot like having two different families, but I truly appreciated the infant & toddler stages MUCH more the 2nd time around. There’s something to be said to be older and wiser when tackling motherhood. Our first two were born shorly after our college years. Looking back, I see how what a selfish time it really is in your life. You are still a child yourself in many respects. With our last two, we are mid-30′s and so much more stable in so many ways. It worked for us =)

- Tracy on March 20th, 2007

my two boys are 11 years apart. i thought it would be difficult but it’s actually been great. my oldest is wonderful around and extremely helpful with his little brother. even after 9 months, he’s still totally into it. he hasn’t grown tired of it yet and doesn’t feel like he’s not getting any attention anymore. my sister and i are 10 years apart ourselves.

- ontario mom on March 20th, 2007

My sister was born when I was 14 and at first it seemed like this huge inconvenience in my teenage life, but now that I am older (23) and my sissy Shyiann (who I named) is 9, I couldn’t see my life without her… she is my favorite person to hang out with and I just absolutely adore her, even though she still gets on my nerves sometimes. The hardest part is trying to show her that I’m an adult who is basically just starting my life and am not her playmate. Also with us she comes to me as part sister/part secondary mother figure, which can be confusing to her as well as myself, because I have to discipline her sometimes and then I have to be sissy again, but she is the most important person in my life!! I could talk about her all day and I get to help spoil her too!!! I try to make sure that she has in me what I didn’t have with my older half sister, which is a role model, a confidante and someone she can always count on, even when mom and dad may let her down!!

- Nisha, CBB Senior Contributor on March 20th, 2007

I just have to say Im so glad and happy for Niki! She’s from my hometown and her parents still live in my neighborhood. Her sister passed about 10 years ago and I was young when it ocurred but I remember it was a huge deal in the neighborhood bc our city was rather itty bitty and farmland then.

Niki still frequents down here and is extremely close with her family and uneffected by all the fame. I believe she lives in Brentwood, TN now. Which is ironic bc my mom’s bff has lived there for years.

My dad and his youngest sister are 12 years apart and theyre still extremely close. My aunt kind of came by surprise…bc theyd been trying for 5 years to keep the gap closer to my dad and his other 2 siblings.

My siblings and I are all a year apart, and pretty much the biggest age gap between my cousins and their siblings is probably 3 years.

- Catherine on March 20th, 2007

I hope Niki and Burney have a baby together. They are such a cute couple

- Paige on March 20th, 2007

I think it will be great for them. The twin boys are old enough not to get too jealous when the new baby comes around and they can help their mom. 12 year olds have so much going on, they probably won’t feel too neglected, and will be old enough to actually share in the experience of raising the new babies.

- PSB on March 20th, 2007

I hope Nikki is able to have more children. She deserves it after all the tragedy she has had in her life from her sister dying when she was just a teenager to her almost fatal car crash that she was in several years ago.

- Dawn on March 20th, 2007

Peavy I believe you because I have witnessed it numerous times.

My neighbor had a baby when her youngest (my age) was 17 years old. Her oldest daughter and her were pregnant at the same time.

My brothers friend from Highschool, her mother got remarried and had 2 kids the same time her oldest child was pregnant.

My mom’s best friend also had a baby the same time 2 of her kids were having them also.

So it happens but for me personally I wouldn’t want to do it. I want it to happen all within a few years and be done!!

I don’t want to raise a baby….think I’m done…only to start all over. But I give women credit who do!

- J.M. on March 20th, 2007

My sisters and I are all 2 years apart in age. That worked out really well growing up, cause we were all interested in the same things at pretty much the same time.

- Mary on March 20th, 2007

My brother an I are 12 yrs apart and were never close and still are not. He and I have nothing in common except our parents. There is alot more to it than just age though.

If I have another baby, which I hope I can, my youngest will be 17 yrs old at the time. My oldest is 18. It will be like starting over completely but I don’t mind and neither do my other children. They would welcome it with open arms!

- tink1217 on March 21st, 2007

I have always liked Niki. I was so sad when she lost her sister.

My children are 16 months apart. However, I am 13 years older then my brother,and 20 years older then my sister. Hey, it just works.

I think it will be such a blessing for Niki to have more kids. She has had a hard time..

- Yonni on March 21st, 2007

I am 11 years younger than my older brother, and 8 years older than my next sibling. Growing up, it was me, and these four small children all born within 5 years of each other. It was very, very lonely, especially as I was very shy growing up, and at every turn I got to see how alone I was and how together they were. Unfortunately, I wanted to spare my son that, but he is now 7. I may have more children in the future, but I don’t want him to go through what I did. My mother never gave a thought to how it affected me, but I will never do that to my son. He is more important to me than just wanting a baby. It’s a good thing the boys are twins, and will always have someone else.

- Niki on March 21st, 2007

I have a 24 yr old daughter and two boys, a 15 yr old and a three yr old!
It is the best way to have kids, I think – because they each get to experience siblings and at the same time, get to be the ‘baby’ long enough to feel really special.
There is no rivalry and there is no ‘he touched me!’ type bickering.
They are amazingly close – even with my daughter living on her own.
Only drawback I can see is being 47 and having to chase a very active 3yr old!!!
That and being called my son’s grandma, when I am with him and my daughter.
They have the strongest resemblance of the three.

- Sandi on March 23rd, 2007

Her health is what worries me — she had a lot of abdominal injuries in that car crash back in the 90s. But if she’s able to have another baby, then good for her and Burney! I’m sure Jake and Hunter will love their new sibling and be quite helpful.

- madam pince on March 23rd, 2007