Jada Pinkett Smith - 'I Gave Up Being A Rock Star For My Family'
Posted on Jun 29, 2011 @ 02:30PM
By Leah Ornstein - Radar Style & Beauty Editor
Jada Pinkett Smith has a fabulous life with husband Will Smith and their beautiful and famous family, but the television star recently revealed that she had to make some difficult personal and career sacrifices along the way.
In the August issue of Redbook Magazine, Jada explains how she put motherhood ahead of her rock star dreams.
"I had to make choices," she tells the women's magazine. "Believe me, I would still be on the road with my band Wicked Wisdom, and making as many movies as I can a year, and doing all sort of things if I didn't have the responsibility of a family."
The devoted mother of two, who turned down the chance to tour with Guns & Roses when her son, Jaden, was auditioning for Pursuit Of Happiness, adds: "But I have children with their own talents and dreams, and I know I have to be standing next to them for that journey.”
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And, while most Hollywood parents have fears about raising their kids in the not-quite-average town, Jada is only relieved that Jaden and daughter Willow don't have to grow up the way she and Will did "in a house with drugs in a war zone."
"It still makes me nervous that they're part of something that isn't totally real," she admits, "but it's up to Will and me to teach them what's real and what's not."
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Aug 23, 2011 @ 08:30
"Nervous they're part of something that isn't totally real" ?? ........ What does she mean by "Isn't Totally Real" ??
Posted Sat, 07/02/2011 - 9:54am
Hate to break it to you Jada but your kids are brats. Don't let them grow up so fast. You'll regret it.
Posted Thu, 06/30/2011 - 1:15am
me too! me too! where's my redbook cover??
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 11:35pm
This woman is so entitled, its sickening. Go back to what ever hole you came from please. No one cares about your dumb ass.
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 11:31pm
A rockstar eh? But don't you have to be FAMOUS to be a rockstar? And TALENTED in the music field? Oh, is she talking about playing dress-up rock star? Where she dresses up as one, and BINGO! that makes her one?
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 8:22pm
Jada is only semi famous because of who she married. She needs to stop tooting her own horn.
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 6:57pm
Man when you look at the life of this guy, he seems to have it all. He's smart, successful, wealthy, great kids, and a BOMBSHELL of a wife! Plus he's Gotti be one of the coolest people in Hollywood. GOOD FOR HIM!
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 6:48pm
Ummm, I gave up being an renowned, multiple Academy Award winning actress to raise my children. LOL. Somebody needs to tell her you don't get medals for making declaration of what you could have been!
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 6:46pm
Will and Jada used to seem "down-to-earth". Then they got close to Tom Cruise and Scientolocrap. That's when they started sounding and acting like fake a$$holes.
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 6:18pm
So then, is that why Willow is a singer? So Jada could live vicariously through her?
I am sick of this whole family. I blame Jada.
Posted Wed, 06/29/2011 - 4:56pm