Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. When Jay-Z's mom tied the knot with her longtime partner over the weekend, it was an emotional moment for the 72-year-old mother-of-four, who spent years 'hiding in a closet. The only slight disappointment is that the space between Mom and E was so small and the letters were all caps, so that it really looked like "MOME". It's great to see the two still so close, despite Dave's fame, but fans wouldn't have expected less from the surprisingly wholesome actor. I see now that they also had to put on a mask, to pretend, to hope that no one asked deeper questions.

I loved parenting from the very start, but there were moments that I struggled under the weight of all the responsibility on my shoulders. She told USA in 2014 that she takes being a mother and a grandmother very seriously, explaining that she's made it her goal to teach her young grandkids 'the importance of having an education and of being a good person. EXCLUSIVEKate is reunited with her three children for the first time in two weeks after leaving hospital. While my feelings about my kids experiencing judgment and pain because of my sexual orientation haven’t subsided I’ve begun to find inspiration and hope from another mom, The Canaanite woman found in Matthew 15.and when people in positions of power cast members of the queer community as less-than, others follow suit.

She enrolled in one community college class after another, filling her home with books and art and campy VHS movies like “La Cage aux Folles” and “Victor/Victoria. At 32-years-old, I gave birth to my daughter Evelyn (which means “wished for child”) as a single mom by choice.And while Jay-Z has admitted that there were certainly some 'tough' moments during his childhood, he has continuously credited his mother's strength with helping him become who he is today. Before my mother left my father and came out as a lesbian, she led my Brownie troop on hiking adventures and hosted children’s birthday soirees and neighborhood Tupperware parties in our elegant Westlake Village home near Los Angeles. It gave me a huge amount of empathy for others in almost every life situation I have been in since — something that has helped me to parent my two young children. This was not an option for me, I was worried the baby would know Nat as “the fun one” and me as “the boring one” or something even worse. As the non-biomom, I am particularly concerned about selecting a name that doesn’t clearly communicate “mom” to the rest of culture.