*Her story may be a several years old, but if you haven’t heard it, it’s still a doozy.
For 40 year-old author, Rebecca Walker, having a famous mother has been anything but easy and she’s opening up about just how her difficult life was. She recently shared her experiences with her famous mother Alice Walker.
“I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother – thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman,” she revealed to British newspaper Daily Mail.
“My Mom taught me that children enslave women,” she continued. “I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale.”
These days, the Yale graduate (born Rebecca Leventhal) is the proud mother of a three and a half year-old son named Tenzin with her partner, Glen. Yet, she holds ‘The Color Purple’ novelist responsible for much of her hardships growing up and is working hard at being a totally different type of mother.
“Ironically, my mother regards herself as a hugely maternal woman. Believing that women are suppressed, she has campaigned for their rights around the world,” she noted.
“But, while she has taken care of daughters all over the world and is hugely revered for her public work and service, my childhood tells a very different story. I came very low down in her priorities – after work, political integrity, self-fulfillment, friendships, spiritual life, fame and travel.”
Read the full story of Walker’s memoirs of her mother at the Daily Mail.
Alice Walker
Very sad story. Echoes of Miss Celie being shackled to a man.
damn, that’s messed up…..maybe that’s why Alice went lesbian, she had a recent relationship with Tracy Chapman. I guess her daughter got tired of all her goodness and light, so she blew up her spot…..damn
i just threw up in mouth a little bit.
“NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!”
I see a black “Mommie Dearest” movie in the making
I couldn’t get to the keyboard fast enough. You took the letters right off of my fingertips!!!! I want to read the book. I bet it’s full of juicy stuff…
I wonder why she, being born “Leventhal” would change her name, to further tie herself to “Mommy Dearest”
Maybe Alice stopped sending checks…….ponder this y’all: unless “Glen” is short for “Glenda”, I don’t think I would call the person/man I had a baby with, my “partner”. Unless………….
Reading is SO fundamental. The entire article points out that Leventhal is her father’s last name, who her mother was married to and divorced when she was 8. Glen is indeed a man, her partner to whom she is not married with which she has a child.
so I didn’t read the whole article, AND I STILL WOULDN’T CALL THE PERSON I HAD A BABY WITH MY PARTNER …B!TCH…did you read that!
Truly unafraid to show just how ignorant you are.
Never liked “Alice Walker” or what ever her real name was.
nightshift, Rebecca changed her name to benefit from her famous mother’s celebrity. I’ve said this before, but people like Rebecca are extremely treacherous when it comes to Blacks and do it with an ease I’ve never witnessed before. Rebecca once said that Alice was jealous because she was mixed with white…can you belive this?? Rebecca is an ungrateful bytch who can only dream of coming close to her mother’s talent. I hope Alice has changed her will like it’s been reported, because this vulture of a daughter will surely arrive to pick her bones and suck the marrow clean.
You know something, there are some women that truly don’t need to become a parent, if we go by what this young woman says, Alice Walker may be one of these women, mind you I said if we go by what this woman says!!!! She could be tripping, but I’ve noticed that some females have children, yet they treat them like inconviences, no nuturing spirit at all!!!