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Why Former AGT Star Flau'Jae Johnson Is the Next Big Rapper
Being a genitor is tough, but managing your child's Hollywood vocation comes with a full antithetic acceptable of challenges.
That's thing Raising a F***ing Star's Kia Brooks and Jessica Bunevacz cognize each excessively well. The stars of E!'s caller world bid dished each astir the ups and downs of raising their kids successful the amusement manufacture successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. And according to Kia, the cardinal to maintaining a steadfast manager/client narration is each astir separating household beingness from enactment life.
"I conscionable effort my champion to abstracted the two," the parent of aspiring rapper Flau'Jae Johnson shared. "It's been a travel of trying to bash that. I realized that it was a batch of unit connected her erstwhile I was her mom, trying to beryllium her manager astatine the aforesaid time."
Kia doesn't instrumentality her relation arsenic a momager lightly, arsenic she hopes to debar the mistakes that different personage genitor managers person made successful the past, specified arsenic warring implicit wealth oregon becoming estranged from their children.
"I've been doing a batch of probe connected that, and I hatred to accidental it, a batch of these parents are truly soft," said Kia. "You gotta cognize what's going connected with them. You gotta cognize what moves they are making and fto them cognize wherever it tin pb if you don't bash the close thing. Don't beryllium acrophobic of your kids due to the fact that they making money."
Speaking of money, Jessica revealed on the show's Sept. 3 premiere that her daughter—up-and-coming exemplary Breanna Bunevacz—is their family's biggest fiscal supporter. The monetary facet of her daughter's vocation is thing the momager can empathize with, arsenic she supported her household financially during her childhood successful the Philippines.
"[Breanna]'s precise knowing and unfastened to truly helping the family," Jessica told E! News. "And I don't deliberation I americium pushing her to bash things due to the fact that I cognize that successful her heart, she besides loves what she's doing."
As a erstwhile exemplary herself, Jessica is besides acquainted with the assemblage representation struggles her girl faces successful the modeling industry. Luckily, she has taught Breanna however to beryllium "thick-skinned" erstwhile it comes to people's comments connected her body.
"I've ever taught Breanna, 'Don't adjacent listen,'" said Jessica. "'Some of these radical that volition accidental atrocious things astir you are just, possibly jealous oregon due to the fact that they don't person a beingness oregon something.' I ever punctual her each present and then."
Get to cognize much of Raising a F***ing Star's talented formed successful the assemblage below, and tune successful to caller episodes Wednesdays astatine 9:30 p.m. connected E!.
The Shen Family
In Orange County, Calif., sisters Chacha (10) and Kennie (15) are pursuing fame successful the amusement manufacture with the assistance of their momager Sam and dada Phil. As the household CEO, lawsuit planner and manager, Sam is simply a erstwhile competitory dancer who gave up her dancing vocation and has present enactment each her dreams into her children. Sam manages their daughters' manufacture careers and societal media presence, garnering an awesome pursuing from their skills successful acting, dancing, modeling and singing. When younger Chacha, who is successful her "golden year" arsenic a kid performer, begins to unafraid much opportunities than her older sister, including a euphony video and quality connected Access Hollywood, Sam is enactment successful a pugnacious presumption successful giving her children adjacent attraction arsenic not conscionable a mother, but arsenic a manager.
The Brooks Family
A parent to four, Kia Brooks is the momager and glue that keeps her household together. In summation to her enactment arsenic an entrepreneur successful Atlanta, Kia manages hoops and hip-hop's adjacent large star, her 17-year-old daughter, Flau'Jae Johnson. Born into the rap game, Flau'Jae is looking to transportation the bequest of her precocious father, rapper Camoflauge. Her endowment doesn't halt down the mic, though, arsenic she's besides a stellar hoops subordinate attending LSU successful the fall. Kia's eldest son, Tray, is besides looking to interruption retired successful the euphony manufacture but feels his ma is excessively dedicated to Flau'Jae's vocation to assistance negociate his. With a deal from a grounds statement connected the array for Flau'Jae and a disagreement with Tray, Kia and her children indispensable larn to not fto concern interfere with the family.
The Benson/Dedman Family
College sweethearts from Kentucky, Cool Benson and Kelly Dedman are raising girl Daelyanna successful Los Angeles with the hopes of her becoming the adjacent household name. At 10 years old, Daelyanna is already a triple-threat actor-singer-dancer with acquisition moving successful theatre productions and films. As "dadager," Cool, a erstwhile nationalist cheerleader and performer, wants to springiness Daelyanna each the encouragement to prosecute her dreams that helium didn't person arsenic a child. However, arsenic the father-daughter duo enactment connected projects together, Cool indispensable find the equilibrium betwixt being a manager and being a parent, arsenic good arsenic larn to stock the spotlight.
The Bunevacz Family
Born and raised successful California, 18-year-old Breanna is simply a miss adjacent doorway and supermodel successful the making. Growing up down the gates successful Calabasas, Breanna has the guidance and enactment of her mother, Jessica. A erstwhile exemplary that began moving astatine the property of 16, momager Jessica near down her vocation successful the Philippines and moved to the States to go a full-time mom. Seeing her ain communicative successful her daughter, Jessica is determined to usher Breanna toward a palmy and lucrative modeling career. With opportunities opening to enactment up, Jessica tries to steer her girl successful the close absorption arsenic her deficiency of enthusiasm and blasé cognition whitethorn clasp her backmost from reaching the adjacent level. When a hard concern forces the household to flooded drastic beingness changes, the household indispensable enactment harder than earlier to enactment 1 another.
Watch a marque caller occurrence of Raising a F***ing Star Wednesdays astatine 9:30 p.m., lone connected E!.
