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Watch: Ciara Opens Up About Her Family

By Akinwale Akinyoade
22 June 2019   |   11:00 am
Sensational singer, Ciara is opening up like never before as she has just revealed something she has never talked about publicly. According to the 33-year-old mother of two who sat down with RuPaul for an interview yesterday, June 21, her parents her no longer together. She said, "So, actually, I've never said this before, but I…

Sensational singer, Ciara is opening up like never before as she has just revealed something she has never talked about publicly.

According to the 33-year-old mother of two who sat down with RuPaul for an interview yesterday, June 21, her parents her no longer together.

She said,

“So, actually, I’ve never said this before, but I can think I can say it [and be] okay within myself,” she stuttered. “My parents were married for 33 years, and they’re not together anymore. However, they are both happily married, so that’s good.”

Speaking about her parents’ split, she said hearing the news was an “out-of-body” experience because “Mom, Dad and Baby” was the only family unit she knew. She said,

“Imagine, you go for 33 years of Mom and Dad being together, and then when I had my child — my son, my first child — I was like, ‘I just know Mommy and Daddy that made Baby is what the scenario’s supposed to be,'” she explained. “So that was like ‘whoa’ when that happened in my life, ’cause this is not what I know.”

She added the two “went separate ways shortly after Russell [Wilson] came into our lives.” She was 29, going on 30.

As expected, Ciara gushed over her Seattle Seahawks quarterback husband, telling Ru they met in Los Angeles through a mutual friend. She said,

“The first day we saw each other was like, ‘Yessir!’ Before I met my husband, I went through one of the most challenging phases of my life,” Ciara explained. “I was a single mom, and I had never been in that place before. That really made me stop and take a look back on the journey, and I was like, ‘Okay, I’ve gotta change something up here.'”

“I’ve always been a person that’s prayed no matter what the circumstance is, but when I would pray at that point, I’d be very specific about what I was hoping for in my life as it related to love and also just me, my own growth.

I was ready to level up in general, just in life in general, period. I was wanting a lot more from myself, and so I definitely would pray a lot. I would cry a lot, and then I would pray a lot, and God is good!

I did meet the love of my life sooner than I’d planned and kind of thought I was going to in my life,” she continued. “In my mind, I thought I would be single for four years, and I met him actually when my son was 10 months old. And that was a very special moment because he came into our lives and was ready to love the both of us with everything. He was changing diapers. When our son — I say our son — when [Baby] Future made his first steps, he was just as excited as I was. God is good because I really didn’t know that would happen. I really was like, ‘I’m gonna be single for four years. I’m sitting still. I’m gonna just be still for a second. Lemme just figure this out.’ And he came in our lives way sooner than I even thought would happen.”

When asked what she thought that “tumultuous” time in her life was supposed to teach her, she said,

“I say on this album, ‘All the scars that you get from the obstacles you face in life are actually beauty marks,'” she replied. “So for me, I got to a place where I was able to reflect on the journey and say, ‘Wow, those moments felt so ugly, and they felt like scars when I was going through them, but they actually are what has made me who I am today, and they’re actually beautiful scars. They’re my beauty marks.'”

Ciara said after that, she promised herself she wouldn’t make the “same mistakes again,” because having her son changed everything.

“Once you have a child, the level of responsibility just goes up to a whole ‘nother level,” she said. “There’s no room to experiment. I’m not experimenting with my son’s life. That’s how I was looking at it.”

Watch the interview below:

It would be recalled that Ciara split from her first child’s biological father, rapper Future, whom she got engaged to in October 2013. They soon announced their split and welcomed the child in May 2014.

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