Cheetah Girls’ Adrienne Bailon Graces Vietnam Bazaar Cover with Motherhood
Adrienne Bailon and her baby boy, Ever James, grace Vietnam Bazaar’s cover with a candid photo of her as a breastfeeding mom.
There is beauty in many things, and motherhood is one of them. Former Cheetah girls and singer Adrienne Bailon graces Vietnam Bazaar’s cover with an image of her breastfeeding her son, Ever James, who was conceived via surrogacy. She opened up about how she and her husband, Israel Houghton, had struggled for eight years with fertility treatments and defined her idea of her motherhood.
Adrienne Bailon About Motherhood: “It’s Not About Me.”
It was an overwhelming feeling for her, she adds on the cover, citing her realization that she was finally a mother. Adrienne Bailon shared the beauty and her definition of motherhood as a first-time mom. “The journey of motherhood is not about me. It’s just that it’s amazing to see him experience the world for the first time.”
During the interview with Bazaar, she adds how she adores Ever, sharing that the little boy “was a very gentle child and the sweetest boy. The boy loved his mother very much and also loved to sleep.”
Besides celebrating her as a first-time mother, she also shared the joy of being the very first Latina to appear on a daytime show in an English-speaking community. “I’m honored,” she admits. “I love that we can share with all our hearts what we’ve been through, about our own experiences.”
Currently, she also has her own jewelry business: XIXI and is the designer for a couture line: La Voûte.
There is a surreal grace in motherhood.
Motherhood is no longer something constrained to the house. It now graces covers, similar to how Serena Williams went on Vogue to announce her retirement and to focus more on motherhood. Back in the day when the world didn’t enjoy looking at a breastfeeding mom, it’s time that the world sees it as a normal part of the human experience. Adrienne’s cover does not romanticize motherhood. It adds love and acceptance to the struggles of it all. Especially in the journey of becoming one.
