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Spice Girl Melanie Brown kept a tight grip on daughter Angel Iris, 20 months, as the two went to pick up big sis Phoenix Chi, 9 ½, from school in Santa Monica on Tuesday. Mel B., 33, helped Phoenix load a school project into the car before heading for home.
Mel and her husband Stephen Belafonte are also parents to Giselle, Stephen’s daughter from a previous relationship. Phoenix’s father is Jimmy Gulzar, and Angel’s father is Eddie Murphy.
awwww, cutie – since when did she get so big?? 
- M on
How adorable is that little girl !! ! !!??!!!
- Rayan on
Oh this is the cutest celeb baby ever ! Mel call me if you need a babysitter lol
- Nikka on
She is so cute!
- halifaxhoney on
She’s a litle cutie!
- Michelle on
she is a cute lil girl.
has eddie ever seen her?
i really dont understand how a dad can not want to see his little girl!
- charlismamma on
There is no denying who her daddy is! My niece had that same outfit 
- Tracy on
She is really cute.
- Rosy J on
Angel is absolutely gorgeous, and Eddie should be thoroughly ashamed of himself. As far as I am aware, he has never seen her, and it’s a disgrace.
- phoebe on
She is so cute! Really looks like her daddy! I can’t imagine him not wanting to see her, is that really true?
I’m really confused by all those names. So Mel and Stephen have no children together, is that right? They all 3 have a different dad?
Was Melanie ever in a relationship with Eddie?
- Nika on
Little Angel is very cute but I can’t believe how big / old she’s gotten. She reminds me of a young Raven-Symone back in her Cosby Show days.
- Katrina on
Angel is so cute! And the spitting image of her dad!
- Aelys on
Angel is adorable!
- Philippa on
Bit inaccurate.
Mel is not Gisele’s mother.
- Cyd on
Nika – yes they were in a relationship, Mel has stated this on more than one occasion. She has also produced photographs of the two of them together, including one which she states was taken the night they were out celebrating the pregnancy. Apparently, Phoenix was also homeschooled at the Murphy house with Eddie’s other children. That doesn’t happen in a casual relationship.
Just to comment from a neutral perspective, even if Eddie had any reason to suspect that Angel wasn’t his (I don’t believe, although someone may wish to correct me if I’m wrong, that he has ever given a reason), he should’ve been mature enough to think of the child, without making those thoughtless remarks when Mel was carrying the baby. What kind of man, no, what kind of father, says something like ‘we won’t know whose kid that is until it comes out and has a DNA test’? I’m paraphrasing, but that was the essence of it. It’s totally classless, and no better than something you would hear on Jeremy Kyle or Maury.
Sorry to be so brash, but I get really annoyed with this kind of thing.
- phoebe on
Nika, Melanie was in a relationship with Eddie for a while I believe, she did an interview and said they were in love. I don’t know what happened with the pregnancy though, like if they were broken up before she found out she was pregnant? (Definitely not trying to excuse him, I dislike him extremely for “denying” his daughter)
- kelly on
nika~phoenix’s dad is her ex-husband jimmy guzman and of course angel’s dad is eddie and with her new hubby they have no kids together…and lil miss angel is sooooo BEAUITFUL it’s a shame that her dad has made no attempts to be a part of her life but i’d like to give kudos to nicole{murphy}who keeps a relationship between the siblings!
- melissa on
She looks just like eddie, and like eddie’s other kids.
- gianna on
how cute! she’s so tiny
- sil on
Well, according to IMDB.com Eddie has been busy. Eddie has 8 children with 4 different women. Thats sad for the children.
- Tracie on
Phoebe, I completely, 100% agree with you. He really has gone wayyy down in my book. I feel so bad for the way he treated Melanie.
Angel is soo adorable! And big!
- Stephany on
She is so, so cute!
Even after the DNA test was done Melanie has said that Eddie has made no move to have any contact with Angel. It’s disgusting. I think she’s also said that her husband Stephen raises Angel like she’s his own, so I’m so glad for her that she has a dad in her life.
- Jane on
Angel is such a little cutie!! She is almost the same age as my little boy, he will be 2 tomorrow!
This whole “Eddie” topic really makes my blood boil though…my little boy is the same position as Angel. His father hasn’t seen him since he was 3months old. I would love to know what goes on in these guys heads…what kind of man doesn’t want to see his own child?? Like Angel, my son has a wonderful Dad in the form of my partner who has raised him since he was born. But one day Angel and my son, and many other kids no doubt, are going to want to know why their biological Daddy didn’t want them – I hope these men have some good answers…
- Robyn on
this situation really is like Heidi, with Leni’s biological father not owning up to accept any type of responsibility for her. and then Seal stepping in like the good man that he is to raise this child as his own. anyone can be a father, but it takes a real man to be a dad. kudos to the real men/dads out there.
that being said, Angel is such a little beauty. i totally think she doesn’t look like Eddie (which, sorry to say, isn’t such a bad thing lol!).
- Mary on
I remember she was born just days after my niece Armani and now they look so much alike. So cute!
- Nikki on
What an adorable little face!
- Fergette on
why does it look like her face is stroked out?
- bush baby b00b00 on
it’s just a shame they couldn’t have picked a nicer shot of mel. she’s such a stunner that i imagine it’s pretty hard to get a bad shot. if i were a celeb, i would be so embarrassed by certain less-than-great shots of me circulating out there. i suppose one gets used to it, tho.
- I-dra on
This is so true. I am 34 and the man I called Dad is my step-dad. He was the one who raised me and was my Father. The man who created me was my sperm donor and had no involvement in my life from when I was born until now. He contacted me once for money but ironically while my Dad tried to adopt me all those years my sperm donor refused to let go of his rights. I had to wait till I was 18 to take my Dad’s surname. So these men drive me crazy. I hate when people refer to these men as fathers in stories. They are sperm donors no more no less. This is all my bio father is to me my real father is the man that raised me. I love you Dad.
- Kate on
OMG WOW I can’t believe A) How big Angel has gotten and B) how much she looks like Eddie!
- Bancie1031 on
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