Tasha Smith does not have any biological children. Despite publicly sharing her desire to become a mother, tracking ovulation cycles, adjusting her travel schedule, doing everything short of willing it into existence, it never happened. What she did have, for a few years, was a blended family she loved. During her marriage to Keith Douglas, she became a stepmother to his five children and refused to call them stepkids. She called them her “bonus kids.” Then the marriage imploded, the annulment made national news, and the family she’d built was gone too.
That’s the short answer. The longer one involves a man who turned out to be someone entirely different from who he said he was.
Does Tasha Smith Have Biological Children?
No. Tasha Smith has never given birth to or adopted any children. She’s been open about this over the years—not in a rehearsed, media-trained way, but with the kind of bluntness her fans love her for.
During a 2013 Wendy Williams appearance, she talked about trying to conceive with her then-husband Keith Douglas. She was 42 at the time. “I’m working on it, honey. As a matter of fact, I’ll be ovulating soon,” she told Williams. “I countdown my days of travel during that time of ovulation. I get home or stay home.”
She described tracking everything, timing everything, doing everything a woman in her early forties can do when the clock feels loud. She even joked about her husband catching her standing upside down after sex trying to improve her chances.
It didn’t work. And then the marriage fell apart, which made the fertility struggle even more painful in hindsight.
What Happened With Keith Douglas and the “Bonus Kids”?
Before the ugliness, there was a real family. Tasha married Keith Douglas, who also went by Rory Douglas, in December 2010. The ceremony was intimate: just the two of them and their pastor at their Los Angeles home.
Douglas had five children from previous relationships, and Tasha embraced them fully. She called them “bonus kids,” not stepchildren. In that same Wendy Williams interview, she painted a picture of genuine harmony, everyone getting along, the kids’ mothers included. “We’re all great friends,” she said. The plan was Thanksgiving with the whole extended family.
That picture shattered by November 2014, when Tasha went to court requesting a restraining order against Douglas. She accused him of infidelity. He filed his own restraining order, claiming she flew into rages. The allegations from both sides got worse from there.
The real bombshell was what Tasha uncovered about Douglas’s past. Per Wikipedia’s sourced account, he had been married five times before her, none of which he disclosed. He had multiple children he never told her about. He hadn’t paid income taxes in nearly a decade. He’d presented himself as a man of faith, a preacher. The reality, as the court found, was fraud.
A judge granted the annulment in December 2015, effectively erasing the marriage. Before that, Tasha had been ordered to pay roughly $7,000 a month in spousal support plus a $50,000 lump sum—the price of being the breadwinner in a marriage to someone who turned out to be running a con.
According to Bossip’s reporting, an insider alleged that Douglas was verbally abusive and blamed Tasha for their inability to conceive. Douglas’s children pushed back publicly, with his son Rory claiming Tasha was the aggressor. His daughter Dahlia said she loved Tasha and didn’t want to be in the middle of it. The whole thing played out like something Tasha’s own Tyler Perry character might have lived through—except this was real.
After the annulment, the “bonus kids” were no longer part of her daily life. That loss doesn’t get talked about much, but it’s there.
Who Is Tasha Smith’s Twin Sister?
Tasha has an identical twin named Sidra Smith. They were born together on February 28, 1971, in Camden, New Jersey, raised by their single mother Monique. They also have a younger sister named Che.
Sidra works behind the camera, she’s a producer, writer, and casting director. She cast music videos for Dr. Dre in the early ’90s, produced the NAACP Image Award-winning documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners in 2012, and created the series A Luv Tale, lived in Ghana for two years producing documentaries and a pan-African talk show, and currently lives in Harlem.
The twins are close in the way only twins can be. Per People, they once pulled a switcheroo on Tyler Perry—Sidra went on set dressed as Tasha’s character and started acting the scene. Perry kept calling “Cut!” trying to figure out what was wrong before Tasha jumped out from behind the monitor.
One thing worth addressing: Sidra has been the subject of persistent cancer rumors, largely because she keeps her head shaved. According to multiple accounts, including the twins’ own social media, the shaved head is a personal style choice she made over a decade ago. The cancer rumors are unfounded.
Is Tasha Smith Still Married?
No. Tasha Smith is currently single. She has not publicly confirmed any new relationship since the annulment from Keith Douglas in 2015. She keeps her private life exactly that, private.
Given what she went through, nobody can blame her. She married a man who lied about his identity, his past, and his children. The court found his deception serious enough to annul the marriage entirely—a rare legal outcome. Annulments after years of marriage don’t happen easily. The fraud case had to be airtight, and it was.
Her friend Tisha Campbell served as a character witness during the proceedings. Douglas took to Twitter posting open letters about his innocence and accusing Tasha of working with the devil. She retweeted her fans’ kind words and kept it moving. That tells you something about who she is.
She hasn’t spoken publicly about dating or relationships in any sustained way since. Her energy, by every visible measure, has gone into her career.
What Is Tasha Smith Doing Now?
This is where the story flips. While the “kids” question usually leads people down the Keith Douglas rabbit hole, what Tasha has been building since that marriage ended is a career that makes the personal drama look like a footnote.
She directed episodes of BMF, P-Valley, Bel-Air, 9-1-1, and Black Lightning. She served as Mary J. Blige’s acting coach for Mudbound. She runs the Tasha Smith Actors Workshop (TSAW), which trains and mentors actors with a particular focus on the Black community. She replaced Theresa Randle in Bad Boys: Ride or Die in 2024. Per IMDb, she’s directing the upcoming Netflix film ‘Tis So Sweet and Why Did I Get Married Again? is in pre-production.
She went from a woman who couldn’t conceive the child she wanted, married to a man who was lying about everything, to one of the most in-demand directors in Black television.
Are Kash Doll and Tasha Smith Related?
No. This one comes up because Kash Doll and Tasha look strikingly alike. The resemblance is so strong that fans have called them twins for years, Kash Doll herself jokingly called Tasha “my mom” on Twitter back in 2018. The two eventually linked up on video in 2020 to address the chatter, with Kash calling Tasha “my twin.” They are not biologically related. Between Sidra and Kash Doll, though, Tasha apparently just has one of those faces.
The Bottom Line
Tasha Smith doesn’t have kids. She wanted them. She came close to building the family she imagined,and then discovered the person she was building it with had lied about who he was from day one. That story would’ve broken some people. Tasha directed BMF instead.
The work speaks.
