It’s difficult to picture Gabrielle Union being afraid of anything, but it turns out she’s human under that persistently ageless exterior. And when she and husband Dwyane Wade welcomed their first child together, now 4-year-old daughter Kaavia, the actress and author worried she would make a mess of it.
“I was afraid of being a bad mom, of not living up to the great moms that I grew up with,” Union told E! News’ Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview. “I didn’t want my lack of understanding or knowledge on every single thing to leave this gaping hole in her life.
A drastic expectation of herself, to show up literally knowing it all. But the Being Mary Jane star—whose upcoming BET+ show Gabrielle Union: My Journey to 50 is all about self-discovery and her insatiable lust for learning as she tours Africa with family and friends—eventually realized that she was allowed to not have all the answers when it came to parenting. As I got more confidence,” she recalled, “I’m like, ‘Oh, we’re all winging it? We’re just doing the best we can.’
And spending those two weeks traversing Africa with Kaavia—”I don’t get just two weeks of time with anybody, not even myself really,” Union quipped—was especially beautiful.
“It gave me even more confidence to trust that, maybe, I’m solid at this,” she said, “and I’m raising happy, healthy, free Black girls.”
Motherhood is “one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life,” Union added. And Kaavia is not only an awesome” kid with “big, big opinions,” but “we’re just waiting for her to tell us what’s really the tea, ’cause she has it
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