Vanessa Williams Covers Essence Magazine With Gorgeous Daughter Jillian Hervey

Good genes undoubtedly run on this household.

The beautiful Vanessa Williams and her equally beautiful daughter Jillian Hervey cowl the January 2017 challenge of Essence journal collectively, making one picture-perfect mother-daughter duo.

Hervey is the actress’ 27-year-old offspring with ex-husband Ramon Hervey II. She’s additionally one half of the soul band Lion Babe.

The two sport matching pink attire on the duvet, with Jillian displaying some pores and skin with some horny cutouts as her wild mane fills the body.

“I by no means noticed myself as all the time having that hair. Ever. That wasn’t the plan,” the musician informed the magazine about her fierce curls. “That was the label. They had been like, ‘You want the hair, you want the hair, you want the hair!'”

“My hair was alleged to symbolize this freedom, after which it virtually turned a lure. You cannot even see my face typically as a result of the wig is so huge,” she added.

Williams, 53, additionally opens as much as the publication about her a few of her profession setbacks, which embody infamously dropping her Miss America crown in 1983.

“You must undergo the hearth,” she stated. “Avoiding the ache is why most individuals by no means resolve it. You must dig deep, sit in it and ugly-cry. Pretending it is not there and maintaining busy are a manner of avoiding it.”

As for her key to a profitable profession, Williams provides, “When they yell, ‘Cameras prepared!’ I’m the primary one there. The director and producer discover. I take no matter I am doing critically.”

According to Essence, the “Ugly Betty” alum was fairly the proud mama on set throughout the photograph shoot, snapping photographs along with her telephone as Jillian posed for her solo pictures.

The new challenge of Essence hits newsstands Friday.

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