- May82011
Zine Cover: LisaRaye Covers Jet Magazine
Actress LisaRaye McCoy and her lovely daughter Kai Morae Pace cover the May 9-11, 2011 edition of Jet magazine.
In this issue, LisaRaye opens up about her relationship with her daughter; and her mother’s bout with cancer.
On Katie McCoy’s support of LisaRaye’s career from the beginning:
“My mother is a strong woman, too. She’s a caterer and giver. She loves to take acare of people,” says LisaRaye, her mother’s only child. “That has been my role with my generation…I’m a giver like that and I don’t mind because I like that and I don’t mind because I like to share..it’s no fun playing by yourself.”
While LisaRaye was breaking into the TV and film industry as a new mom, her mother moved to Los Angeles from their home in Chicago to help raise Kai. Katie McCoy says she’s still in awe of how her daughter balances work and family.
LisaRaye’s mother cancer scare:
The family faced a scare several years ago when Katie McCoy was diagnosed with cancer. She is now cancer-free but dealing with other painful health issues whtat prevent her from traveling often. LisaRaye wants her to live with her in Los Angeles, but she does said no.
And on LisaRaye’s relationship with her daughter:
Kai says she has learned a “sense of business” growing up in a celebrity household.
“Everyone seems to think that entertainment is very fun and not stressful but it’s not,” says Kai. “From my mom I learned that it’s an actual business and how to…make things work for you. Just as me being a plus-size model, I know I’m never going to be skinny, I don’t want to be skinny, so I work with what I have.”
Kai says the three ladies relate to each other differently. “Their [relationship] is more old-school…me and my mom are more on a friend basis.”
LisaRaye, daughter and her mother have such an incredible bond.
The latest issue of the Jet magazine is newsstands now.
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