Apr 05, 2022

We’ve got a very exciting face on the site today for my fellow millennials: the iconic Gabrielle Union.

Union chatted with Jessica Curry Morton, author of the NAACP Image Award-nominated children’s book Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment, exclusively for Scary Mommy. Their convo ranged from the creation of Union’s new babycare line, Proudly, to the joys of making a candy run at 7-Eleven with her husband, retired NBA star Dwyane Wade.

The star got real about how much better she understands her own mom now that she’s got kids — “I get it now. And I don’t know how she did not fight me in the street” — and the battles she and her family are fighting on behalf of their daughter, Zaya, who is trans: “In our family, we just don’t have the luxury of burying our head in sand or not knowing that it’s not just Texas or Florida and ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ states are passing these laws with a reckless abandon, sometimes in the dead of night.”

She also opened up about all that she’s juggling: “I drop balls all day every day, and I just have to hope people give me grace in the same way I give them grace.” Something for all of us to remember in our dealings with each other.

— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

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