Inside KJ Smith and Skyh Black's Relationship (Including Their OnSet MeetCute) Audrey SchmidtOctober 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM 0 Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Skyh Black and KJ Smith attend the 55th Annual NAACP Awards on March 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Audrey SchmidtOctober 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Actors KJ Smith and Skyh Black met on the set of BET's Sistas
The pair went on to form a romantic connection
In October 2025, the married couple welcomed their first child
KJ Smith and Skyh Black are both multihyphenates in the entertainment industry who met on the set of a TV show.
Smith and Black, who starred on BET'S Sistas together, connected once they were no longer filming, as there was a no-fraternization policy on set.
"Right off the bat, it was different," Smith told Essence in August 2023 of the relationship. "The first time we had our first phone conversation, he was always talking about the future, and mind you, we met during a pandemic ... I love hard, and I met the person who does the same thing."
The pair — who tied the knot in a September 2023 California wedding — collaborate off-screen, as well. They launched their own production company called Blackhouse Inc., where Black has served as creative director on several photo shoots, including a Mother's Day one featuring his wife.
"I'm a very ambitious guy, but now I got her next to me, and we love the hell out of each other," he told Essence. "There's no limits. I feel like limitlessness is on the other side of marriage."
In October 2025, Smith and Black welcomed their first child, Pryde JaNea Black. "I wake up every day and I'm just like, 'I have a little being that is here,' " Smith told PEOPLE. "She looks like a little angel. She's so precious."
Here is everything to know about KJ Smith and Skyh Black's relationship.
They met on set
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Skyh Black and KJ Smith during the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture on July 01, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Black and Smith met on the set of Tyler Perry's Sistas. She played the lead role of Andrea "Andi" Barnes, and he played Jacobi. However, it wasn't until after they stopped filming together that the two connected romantically.
"Once I got All The Queen's Men she actually shot me a DM and said, 'Hey, I didn't get a chance to get your number, but I just wanted to tell you, congratulations. If you need any advice, if you need anything like that, don't hesitate to reach out,' " he told Essence.
Black took her up on it and called her. "We had this beautiful three-hour conversation just about life, about navigating the industry," he said. "We're both from Florida, so we had that in common."
Black continued, "Then the next day we actually talked again about something and it went to a two-hour conversation. I'll be honest, I just said, 'Yo, can I take you out Saturday?' She was like, 'Sure.' "
They got engaged in 2021
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KJ Smith and Skyh Black during the 2023 BET Awards on June 25, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
For their first date, the pair had a picnic in Malibu, Calif. Smith and Black then started dating seriously.
The couple continued dating for 11 months before Black popped the question around the holidays in 2021.
They married in 2023
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KJ Smith and Skyh Black at the 2024 BET Awards on June 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
After being engaged for a little over a year and a half, Smith and Black tied the knot on Sept 3. 2023, at The Malibu Dream Resort in front of 150 guests.
"Malibu was the place we had our first date, the location where we started this journey," Smith told PEOPLE in 2023 about the venue.
While planning their wedding, Smith proposed the idea of eloping in the mountains. "But then, when we started planning it, I got more and more excited about friends, family and loved ones being involved," she told PEOPLE.
"It turned into a very large wedding ceremony and I'm really happy we decided to do this because we were able to experience it with our family and friends," Smith added.
Some of their famous friends in attendance included Perry, Loni Love, Eva Marcille and Lil Rel Howery.
"Hands down best day of my life ❤️," Black wrote on Instagram, sharing a snippet of their ceremony.
They announced they were expecting their first child in May 2025
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Skyh Black and KJ Smith at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on February 22, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Black and Smith revealed in May 2025 that they were expecting their first child.
"I've been praying since day one that God blesses us with a healthy and happy baby," Black told Essence at the time. "I think I have pressure that I put on myself, especially now being a father, and I want my kid to look at me and say, 'Wow, that's my dad.' I want to make them proud of me."
Smith revealed to PEOPLE during the 2025 BET Awards red carpet that they are having a baby girl.
"He tells the baby good morning every morning and says, 'You're amazing. You're beautiful,' " she told the outlet. "He gives the baby positive affirmation. So it's a sweet little morning ritual we all have."
Smith and Black welcomed their daughter in October 2025
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Skyh Black and KJ Smith at the BET Awards 2025 on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Near the end of October 2025, Smith and Black announced exclusively to PEOPLE that they had welcomed their daughter, Pryde JaNea, on Oct. 4. The couple were elated to share the news and said they couldn't believe they were parents.
"I get up. I walk around for three hours if she wants me to," Black said. "My gym workouts are a little bit longer because [I'm] staring at her videos that her mom sends me. She's perfect, man. She's so perfect."
Smith also shared about her traumatic birth experience, saying she hopes it empowers Pryde to know how strong she was in her first moments on earth.
"[The team was] patient and diligent with me, and per what I already knew, they let me know something was going on with the baby and her heart rate was dropping to dangerously low levels because of the circumstance that had happened in our home birth," she said. "And so I had my epidural and I had an emergency C-section."
The new mom concluded, "I can't wait to tell her birth story. I can't wait to just reaffirm to her that she is strong and that she's powerful and that there's a reason that she came into this world unscathed."
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