How Many Kids Does Kenya Moore Have? Family in 2026

The Short Answer: One Daughter, Age 7

Kenya Moore has one child: her daughter Brooklyn Doris Daly, born on November 4, 2018. She is 7 years old as of October 2026 and turns 8 on November 4, 2026. Brooklyn’s father is Kenya’s ex-husband, restaurateur Marc Daly, whom Kenya married in June 2017 and divorced in December 2024 after a three-year legal battle.

Kenya, 55, waited longer than almost any of her reality-TV peers to become a mother — she was 47 when Brooklyn was born, after in-vitro fertilization and a pregnancy marked by preeclampsia that nearly ended in tragedy. She has called Brooklyn her “miracle baby” ever since, and the little girl has grown up in the spotlight of RHOA, red carpets, and her mother’s 5-million-strong social following.

Below is the full verified picture: Brooklyn’s dramatic birth and the story behind her name, the father and the divorce that followed, the 2026 reunion with Kenya’s estranged mother, and what the mother-daughter duo looks like in October 2026.

Brooklyn: Her 7-Year-Old Daughter

Brooklyn Doris Daly arrived on November 4, 2018, a few weeks early after Kenya developed preeclampsia — the pregnancy complication that causes dangerous swelling and high blood pressure. Kenya had gained 17 pounds in a single week from severe swelling and told People at the time: “Brooklyn is very alert and active.” The 47-year-old new mom had announced the pregnancy on the RHOA season 10 reunion that April, and the birth made national headlines as one of the most-watched celebrity deliveries of the year.

The name is a small autobiography. Brooklyn is for the New York borough where Kenya and Marc met and fell in love; Doris honors Kenya’s late grandmother, Doris, who raised her and died the year before Brooklyn’s birth. Kenya conceived via IVF after years of fertility struggles — a journey she discussed openly on television, including a Tamron Hall appearance with Marc about the process.

Now 7, Brooklyn is in elementary school — Kenya posted her “First day of school! Class of 2037” photo in 2023 — and has her mother’s outsized personality. She made her TV debut as a baby on The Real, has walked red carpets with Kenya, and in November 2025 was celebrated with a heartfelt 7th-birthday tribute in which Kenya called her “my legacy, my purpose, my reason why.”

The Dad: Marc Daly and the Divorce

Marc Daly, a restaurateur and the owner of Brooklyn restaurant SoCo, is Brooklyn’s father. He and Kenya married in a secret June 2017 ceremony in St. Lucia that Kenya announced on RHOA season 10. The marriage began to fracture almost immediately: Kenya filed for divorce in 2019, listing the separation date as September 19, 2019, and calling the marriage “irretrievably broken.”

What followed was what Kenya dubbed “the world’s longest divorce” — more than three years of litigation before it was finalized in December 2024. Under the settlement, Kenya was awarded primary custody of Brooklyn, with joint legal custody; custody exchanges must happen at public locations; Daly pays $2,000 per month in child support plus $1,000 monthly into Brooklyn’s college savings account; and Kenya controls whether Brooklyn appears on reality TV.

Kenya has been candid about the co-parenting reality, at one point calling Daly a “FaceTime father” and saying he had not seen Brooklyn since the previous May. She told People on finalizing the divorce: “I’m excited for this next chapter in my life and being the best mom I can be for my daughter, Brooklyn.”

2026: Brooklyn Meets Her Grandmother

The most emotional Kenya Moore family story of 2026 arrived in March 2026. Kenya — who has spoken for years about her painful, distant relationship with her own mother, Patricia Moore — brought 7-year-old Brooklyn to Detroit for her grandmother’s 95th birthday celebration. There, Brooklyn met Kenya’s mother for the very first time.

Kenya described the moment on a March 1 livestream on her YouTube channel, saying she had not fully processed it: the woman who raised her was not her mother but her grandmother Doris, and Patricia had been largely absent from her life. But Patricia had been sending Brooklyn Christmas and birthday gifts, and Kenya — who wrote in November 2025 that she parents Brooklyn with ten times the love she herself longed for — decided to allow the connection.

“I think when you don’t forgive people, it holds you back,” Kenya said, explaining that forgiveness was more for herself than for her mother. After the visit, Brooklyn asked the question that melted the internet: “When can I spend time with grandma?” For a woman who built her public image on being unbothered, it was the softest Kenya Moore moment in years — and it belonged entirely to her daughter.

Miss USA to Mogul: Kenya’s Career

Before she was a Housewife, Kenya Moore was pageant royalty: crowned Miss USA 1993, she went on to model, act (including a memorable turn in Waiting to Exhale), and produce. She joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta in its fifth season and became one of the franchise’s defining personalities across more than a decade — though her season 16 run ended in controversy in 2024, and she has since described herself as an alum.

Off-screen she built Kenya Moore Hair Care into a nationally distributed brand, and she has moved into acting with a starring role in the Lifetime movie Abducted Off the Street: The Carlesha Gaither Story. The throughline of her post-divorce public life, in her own telling, is Brooklyn: “After more than three years of litigation, I have finally been granted a divorce,” she told People. “I’m excited for this next chapter in my life and being the best mom I can be for my daughter, Brooklyn.”

That chapter includes a dating life she keeps mostly private — reports in 2024 linked her to restaurateur Roi Shlomo — but Kenya has said she still believes her “forever person exists.” For now, the forever person in her life is 7 years old and calls her Mommy.

Breaking the Cycle: Kenya’s Motherhood

Kenya has been strikingly open about why motherhood matters so much to her. Raised by her grandmother Doris after her own mother was absent, she has said she made a conscious decision to break that cycle — to give Brooklyn, in her words, ten times the love she herself longed for growing up. “My baby changed my life in ways I could never imagine,” she wrote for Brooklyn’s 7th birthday in November 2025.

That philosophy shows up in the small details she shares: teaching Brooklyn chores and the value of hard work rather than spoiling her; passing down her love of animals (Brooklyn “loves helping animals,” Kenya told Bravo); and guarding her daughter’s TV exposure — under the divorce settlement, Kenya alone decides if and when Brooklyn appears on reality television.

It also showed up in the biggest decision of her post-divorce life: at the RHOA reunion she once revealed she had “decided to adopt” a second child — a 3- or 4-year-old — rather than risk another high-risk pregnancy. As of October 2026, that plan has not materialized, and the household remains what it has always been: Kenya, 55, and Brooklyn, 7 — a mother and daughter who, by Kenya’s account, are each other’s whole world.

The Family in October 2026

As of October 2026, the Kenya Moore household is a family of two: a 55-year-old former Miss USA turned entrepreneur, and her 7-year-old daughter, weeks away from turning 8 on November 4, 2026. The divorce is final, the custody terms are set, and the grandmother Brooklyn only just met in March is now part of the extended picture.

Brooklyn Doris Daly — born November 4, 2018, via IVF, after preeclampsia, to a 47-year-old first-time mom who had waited her whole life — remains the answer to the question and the center of the story. One daughter. One miracle baby. One mother who says everything she built, worked for, and dreamed of has been for her.

And if Kenya’s November 2025 birthday tribute is any indication, the 8th birthday — days after this article’s publication — will be celebrated the way every Brooklyn birthday is: as proof, in Kenya’s words, that her baby changed her life in ways she could never imagine.

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