Beyoncé and Jay-Z are one of the world’s most famous power couples.
And they now have an equally famous family, with daughter Blue Ivy, 13, and seven-year-old twins, Rumi and Sir.
But Beyoncé’s mother, businesswoman and fashion designer Tina Knowles, tells me she “worries about the fame” impacting her grandchildren.
“If I had my first choice, they would not have to deal with the things that they have to deal with as kids,” she says.
Knowles, 71, says for now, the children are not too exposed to it.
“But one day they’ll read the ignorance that people put out there about them, the lies and all of that,” she says. “And I do worry about that.”
Despite those pressures, she says Beyoncé and Jay-Z – who are notoriously private about their home life – are doing an “amazing” job as parents.
“The truth is they spend abnormal amount of time with their children and they have great relationships with their kids,” she says.
“And they’re just great parents. I don’t think you could ask for better parents.”
Knowles is speaking to BBC News ahead of the publication of her new memoir, Matriarch.
It covers her childhood in Texas, her daughters’ rise to fame and her later years, as a grandmother.
Knowles now has four grandchildren, including Julez Smith, the son of her younger daughter, singer-songwriter Solange. She also considers herself a grandmother to former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland’s children.
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