{"id":2426925,"date":"2026-05-21T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2426925"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:34:02","slug":"singer-akon-details-polyamorous-life-with-multiple-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/singer-akon-details-polyamorous-life-with-multiple-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Akon Details Polyamorous Life With Multiple Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLonely\u201d singer <b>Akon <\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/non-monogamous-celebs-will-smith-jada-pinkett-smith-and-more\/\">practices polyamory<\/a> and has multiple wives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPolyamory is a natural behavior for men,\u201d Akon, 53, said on the Tuesday, May 19, episode of the \u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nGQwHkuMDQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">podcast<\/span><\/a>. \u201cNow, because of the rules that [are] set around us, we control that behavior to, you can say, appease our partner because of the same rules that we\u2019re living by and that we\u2019re, you can say, agreeing upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cWhen you\u2019re single, it\u2019s not a problem. It\u2019s only when you are attached or you\u2019ve promised someone that this is a relationship that we\u2019re supposed to hold in the rules that you decide to hold it in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When asked how many wives he has, Akon (real name Aliaune Thiam) succinctly said, \u201cI\u2019ll just leave that to your imagination.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s entertainment,\u201d after being questioned about having more spouses than the Senegalese president. (<b>Bassirou Diomaye Faye<\/b>, the leader of the Republic of Senegal, has two wives of his own.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/polyamorous-ne-yo-reveals-whether-his-3-girlfriends-can-date-other-men\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/polyamorous-ne-yo-reveals-whether-his-3-girlfriends-can-date-other-men\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Polyamorous Ne-Yo Reveals Whether His 3 Girlfriends Can Date Other Men<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tNe-Yo is sharing details about his relationship with three women \u2014 and whether they can date other men. The \u201cSo Sick\u201d crooner (real name Shaffer Chimere Smith) first went public with his polyamorous relationship in early 2025, introducing girlfriends Arielle Hill, Moneii and Cristina to the world. (At the time, he said he was also [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">While playing coy about his relationships, Akon did offer insight into his home life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI got the most amazing kids. I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/celebrity-parents-with-big-broods-large-families-pics\/\">got nine altogether<\/a>. Seven boys and two girls, and the setup all depends on the person and the understanding,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s communication. It\u2019s literally the answer and the solution. You got to be mature enough to know that, \u2018If this is the situation that I\u2019m going to park in, I have to communicate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Among Akon\u2019s relationship rules, his wives cannot have other partners and he lists his first wife as his emergency contact \u201cno matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThat one is the reason you even got one, two or three. She\u2019s the queen,\u201d he stated. \u201cNobody violates Wife No. 1. The moment they violate, [they are] out the door. \u2026 There\u2019s levels in the end, like, she\u2019s the one that\u2019s actually sacrificing in the end. With new people [joining] your family, there\u2019s going to be new attitudes, new mindsets, new behaviors and [the first wife has] to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ne-yo-shares-what-he-tells-his-kids-about-his-polyamorous-relationship\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Ne-Yo-Reveals-What-He-Tells-His-Kids-About-His-Polyamorous-Relationship.jpg?crop=0px%2C90px%2C1600px%2C904px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Ne-Yo Reveals What He Tells His Kids About His Polyamorous Relationship\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ne-yo-shares-what-he-tells-his-kids-about-his-polyamorous-relationship\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Ne-Yo Reveals What He Tells His Kids About His Polyamorous Relationship<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPrince Williams\/WireImage Ne-Yo isn\u2019t afraid to talk to his kids about anything \u2014 even his numerous relationships. In an interview on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show on Thursday, February 20, the singer admitted that his seven children are well aware of the fact that he\u2019s in polyamorous relationships with four women \u2014 if they ask. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Akon also shut down any critics of his lifestyle during the candid conversation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf you\u2019re going to do it, be honest about it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem is [a] majority of the critics are hypocritical because they\u2019re saying that this ain\u2019t right, but yet they\u2019re doing it. There\u2019s not a person, I promise you, that ever critiqued anything that I\u2019ve ever said that if I went and did a background check on them right now or hired a private investigator that I wouldn\u2019t find nothing. That\u2019s just being real, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Akon added, \u201cI think as humans sometimes we find ourselves judging others, not understanding the pathway they went through because most of the time, oftentimes, when I\u2019m talking, I\u2019m talking relating to culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Akon further claimed that polyamory benefits each wife more than the husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOftentimes when the family is united in that way, the benefit is more for the woman than it is for the man because the man actually has to take care of all of them,\u201d he said. \u201cHe has to treat them all equally and their responsibility bears on him as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLonely\u201d singer Akon practices polyamory and has multiple wives. \u201cPolyamory is a natural behavior for men,\u201d Akon, 53, said on the Tuesday, May 19, episode of the \u201cWe Need to Talk\u201d podcast. \u201cNow, because of the rules that [are] set around us, we control that behavior to, you can say, appease our partner because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,164683],"class_list":["post-2426925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-love-lives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Singer-Akon-Details-Polyamorous-Life-With-Multiple-Wives.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426927,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426925\/revisions\/2426927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}