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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby

America’s Next Top Model contestant Nik
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Circle of Life

Nik Pace of “America’s Next Top Model” welcomed her first child on September 1. Share your congrats with the new mom.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Baby Boy

Nik’s newborn is a beautiful boy, who came in weighing 7 pounds and 5 ounces.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Still Shining

Throughout her pregnancy, Nik stayed working and was listed in FORD Models’ mommy category.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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A Woman’s Work

Nik celebrated her pregnant body during this photo shoot, while nine months along.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Beauty Is Her Name

Nik is captivating in her final days of pregnancy.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
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Mother’s Glow

Pregnancy definitely agreed with the stunning beauty.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Color Me Bad

Nik knows how to rock a smoldering shade.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
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My Joy

Nik embraced her changing body and growing belly.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Mod Mommy

Who says maternity wear can’t be sexy? Nik struts her stuff in her final month of pregnancy.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
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Rising to the Top

Nik kicked off her modeling career on Tyra Banks’s “America’s Next Top Model.”

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Green With Envy

The bronze beauty becomes one with mother nature.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
Corey Reese Photography
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Double Take

Nik’s modeling career didn’t stop once she became pregnant.

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'Top Model' Nik Celebrates Her Baby
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