Viola Davis has given a rare look into life as a mother of a teenage daughter.
The Oscar-winning actress posted a sweet photo with her daughter, Genesis, over the holiday weekend.
“Me and my soon-to-be 14-year-old son,” she said. He captioned the photo. A photo of the two of them standing together in the kitchen. “I love her so much.”
She ended her post with three heart emojis.
Davis, 58, stood casually in jeans and a black zip-up hoodie, one hand on her hip and the other around her daughter, accessorizing with bracelets, earrings and a head wrap to complete the look.
Genesis, who turns 14 on July 10, was wearing beige cargo pants and a black tank top, with her red and black braids tied into two ponytails.
“She’s as tall as you,” actress Octavia Spencer commented, adding a heart emoji.
Vanessa Williams added: “Wow! Baby girl has grown so much!”
“You’ve grown so much! So beautiful,” commented Deborah Roberts, while Sheila E. called the picture “so adorable.”
Davis is raising Genesis with her husband, Julius Tennon, after marrying in 2003 and adopting the baby in October 2011.
Actress in “Woman King” in 2017 told people She knew something was missing even before she adopted her daughter.
“I wanted my life to have meaning and to have more depth, and then the urge came and the urge was very, very, very strong, and now I have a child and she is just the light of our lives,” she said.
She added that becoming a mother has given her “new purpose.”
In 2016, she He told Ellen DeGeneres Genesis wanted to follow in her footsteps and become an actress.
“She said, ‘Mom, I know how to live by the lyrics. I know how to breathe by the lyrics. I know how to memorize the lyrics,’ and I said, ‘Well, you’ve got to remember how to go to school, and when you turn 18, you’ve got to remember how to leave home and pay your own bills,'” Davis said.
The last time Davis posted a family photo with Genesis and Tennon was in March.
“Happy Easter from our family to yours!” She wrote She held her daughter tightly.
