Gabrielle Union Says Motherhood Later in Life Is ‘Worth it’: ‘I Became a Mom at the Right Time’

Gabrielle Union is discussing the rewards of motherhood afterward in life. 

The actress, 50, mentioned in an Instagram video posted Friday that she “turned a mother on the proper time” and shared that she had been in a position to “heal” from previous traumas and never move them on to daughter Kaavia James, 4.

“Folks all the time ask, ‘Is it price it? Having youngsters later in life? There’s quite a bit that goes into that reply,” Union mentioned within the video as she stood in a dressing room making use of cream. “However in a nutshell: hell yeah, it has been price it.” 

Union welcomed Kaavia through surrogate in November 2018 with husband Dwyane Wade, 41, after the couple married in 2014. The actress can also be stepmom to Wade’s youngsters, Zaire, 21, and Zaya, 16, shared with ex-wife Siovaughn Funches, and Xavier, 9, with Aja Metoyer. 

“It is modified my life in so many wondrous ways in which it does make me want I had accomplished it earlier, simply so I’ve much more time with Kaav. I even have extra time as a mother,” Union continued. 

The Good Discover star then mirrored on the timing of her journey to motherhood, saying, “I turned a mother on the proper time, as a result of I used to be healed.”

“And I had dedicated to therapeutic eternally, so I didn’t move all that generational trauma onto Kaav,” Union shared. “And had I been a day youthful, even, definitely 10, 15, 20 years earlier than, I’d have handed alongside method too many traumatic issues to my little one.”

“I didn’t actually get into therapeutic from all of my traumas, therapeutic my soul, therapeutic my aura, if you’ll. I wasn’t in a spot to even maintain myself, a lot much less our little miracle,” the actress admitted. 

“So for me, it is completely price it. She is one of the best factor that is ever occurred to me,” Union concluded with a smile. 

“Selecting to heal previous traumas was one of the best preparation for motherhood @theproudlyco,” Union added within the caption for the put up, which was shared in collaboration with PROUDLY, her child care model co-founded together with her husband Wade.

In March, Union opened up extra about her function as a mother on the 2023 Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards following her and husband Wades’ emotional speech on the NAACP Picture Awards championing the battle for LGBTQ rights. 

The speech got here a day after Zaya legally modified her title and underwent gender project.

“Your youngsters are price combating for,” Union advised with Furtheron the time. “Your youngsters will not be disposable and even when confronted with one thing that you simply won’t be as aware of or snug with [it is] not an excuse to throw your youngsters away.”

“It makes you need to battle,” she mentioned. “It makes you need to dig in and never solely battle on your youngsters however all people’s youngsters.”