Beyoncé’s Family Has ‘Curses’ She Does Not Want Her Kids to Endure
Beyoncé is one of the most popular singers in the world. She rose to fame in the late 1990s and has since sold countless records worldwide and won numerous awards for her work.
While Beyoncé’s life seems quite glamorous from the outside, she has admitted that it is far from perfect. In fact, she has admitted that, within her own family, there are “curses” she would like to break.
Who are people in Beyoncé’s family?
Beyoncé grew up in Houston, Texas. She was raised by mom Tina Knowles and dad Matthew Knowles. Her parents divorced in 2011. Beyoncé also has a younger sister named Solange, who is a singer as well.
In 2008, Beyoncé married rapper and music mogul Jay-Z. The couple has three kids together: Blue Ivy (born 2012) and twins Sir and Rumi (born 2017).
Why Beyoncé said her family has ‘curses’
Beyoncé own family, like many others in the world, is not perfect. In an interview with Vogue in 2018, she revealed that she had come to learn about “curses” that plague her family members. These “curses” take the form of broken romantic relationships.
“I come from a lineage of broken male-female relationships, abuse of power, and mistrust. Only when I saw that clearly was I able to resolve those conflicts in my own relationship,” Beyoncé shared. “Connecting to the past and knowing our history makes us both bruised and beautiful.”
She also noted that the complex history of African-Americans in the United States had a bearing on her personal life in ways she did not initially realize, adding, “I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective… I pray that I am able to break the generational curses in my family and that my children will have less complicated lives.”
Beyoncé and Jay-Z have talked about their marital problems
Beyoncé and Jay-Z are usually very private about their marriage, but the two of them have been open about some problems they faced.
The most famous issue is Jay-Z’s past infidelity. Beyoncé went public with her husband’s affair in 2016 with the release of her album Lemonade. There, she talked about his infidelity in various songs and, according to Fader, even linking it to her own father’s affair.
In 2017, Jay-Z opened about and admitted to the infidelity in an interview with the New York Times. He shared that it stemmed from his inability to handle complicated emotions as a man.
“You shut down all emotions. So even with women, you gonna shut down emotionally, so you can’t connect,” he said. “In my case, like it’s, it’s deep. And then all the things happen from there: infidelity…”
In response to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Jay-Z also released his own album, 4:44, in which he apologized to her for having an affair.
Jay-Z also revealed in an interview with David Letterman in 2018 that he and Beyoncé did not give up on their marriage. The couple chose to attend therapy and worked out their problems together.
“We did the hard work of going to therapy and you know, we love each other, right? So we really put in the work,” he said, according to the Daily Beast. “But we’re still working and communicating and growing. And I’m proud of the father and the husband that I am today because of all the work that was done.”
