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Beyoncé had the whole family — including the the tens of thousands of Beyhive members at the second show of her Cowboy Carter Tour — congratulate Tina Knowles on her recent accomplishment Thursday night (May 1).
In a sweet moment from the performance at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer is joined on stage by her mom, whose memoir, Matriarch, debuted this week atop the New York Times nonfiction hardcover bestsellers list. Standing with an arm around her mom and joined by her own daughters, 13-year-old Blue Ivy and 7-year-old Rumi, Bey first praises the author for “working so hard on her book.”

“She has the No. 1 book on the New York Times bestsellers,” the 35-time Grammy winner continues proudly as Rumi jumps up and down excitedly, prompting big sister Blue to lovingly shush her. “Everybody, please say, ‘Congratulations, Mama T.’ One, two, three!’”

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As the crowd indulges Bey’s request, Tina blows a kiss before exiting the stage with her granddaughters, holding Rumi’s hand.

The day prior, the Destiny’s Child alum had also personally congratulated her mom with a post on Instagram. “The Mama T was that good??” Bey wrote Wednesday (April 30). “You deserve it, I’m so proud!”

Tina’s achievement comes a little over a week after Matriarch hit shelves, giving fans an intimate look into her life raising one of music’s biggest stars as well as the designer’s battle with breast cancer in 2024. In addition to NYT‘s nonfiction hardcover bestsellers, the book is also No. 1 on the publication’s combined print and E-book nonfiction list.

Thursday’s performance marked the second of five shows slated for SoFi, after which Bey will travel around the United States and Europe through the end of July. The Cowboy Carter Tour kicked off three nights prior on April 28, featuring cameos from both Blue and Rumi during “Protector.”

Watch Bey’s Cowboy Carter Tour crowd join her in congratulating Mama T below.

As adults, famous sisters Beyoncé and Solange are close — but they might owe their bond to a pivotal decision mom Tina Knowles made when they were children.
While speaking to CNN News Central Friday (April 25) just a couple days after the release of her memoir, Matriarch, the businesswoman explained that she sent her daughters to therapy back when they were kids because she grew “terrified when Beyoncé turned around 10” that a divide was forming between the two sisters. As the “Texas Hold ‘Em” artist kicked off her musical journey at the time while in the singing group Girl’s Tyme, Knowles says Solange struggled to feel included.

“The kids would say to Solange every day, ‘Be quiet, Solange,’ because she would try to choreograph and, you know, she wanted to be involved,” Knowles recalled. “And then I started noticing that Beyoncé would allow them to talk to her like that, or she would say, ‘OK, Mom, can you get Solange out of here?’ And I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, this is her house, and you’ve got to be nice to her.’”

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“Finally I realized that they weren’t listening, and I saw a wall between them coming,” the designer continued. “And so I got them in therapy.”

The whole family has come a long way since those days. Since Knowles welcomed her eldest daughter with ex-husband Mathew Knowles in 1981, followed by Solange five years later, both girls have carved out massively successful, Grammy-winning music careers while staying “super tight” thanks to their time in counseling, according to their mom.

“Back then it was really taboo,” Knowles continued Friday of the decision to put her girls in therapy. “Even my husband, he was like, ‘I just don’t know if they’re too young for you to do that.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m not asking. I’m going to find somebody.’”

“I found this wonderful child therapist,” she added. “And it’s funny, because he told Beyoncé all the things I had told her, but she listened from him, even though she hated therapy. She hated going. Solange loved therapy. She loved talking and, you know, expressing herself. And the outcome was great.”

Parenting two of music’s biggest stars is a major topic in Matriarch, which hit shelves Tuesday (April 22). In the book, Knowles also opens up about her recent breast cancer journey, which led to her undergoing surgery to remove a tumor late last year.

Of her daughters’ reactions to the diagnosis, the Cécred cofounder wrote that Bey “took it well, staying positive … I could already feel her mind racing, focusing on this as a task to tackle with precision,” while Solange simply said with determination, “We are going to take care of this.”

Russell Wilson has been loud and proud about his desire to have another baby with Ciara, but the singer would like her husband to take two steps back from his ongoing campaign to expand their family.
In a hilarious moment from Ciara’s video with Access Hollywood posted Wednesday (April 23), the “1, 2 Step” musician reacted to Wilson’s ongoing calls for Baby No. 5 — whom he’s preemptively started calling “Cinco” on social media — by saying, “Someone need to take my husband’s phone, right now.”

“He needs to stop, OK?,” she continued, laughing. “I’m like, ‘Babe!’ Amora came out, and he started talking about Cinco. I’m like, ‘This is disrespectful! Do you know what I just went through right now?’ He is so funny.”

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The interview comes about a year and four months after the couple welcomed Amora Princess, Ciara’s fourth child and third with the New York Giants quarterback. The two stars are also parents to 7-year-old Sienna and 4-year-old Win, and the “Level Up” artist shares 10-year-old Future Zahir with ex Future.

In the months since Amora’s birth, Wilson has been not-so-subtly signaling his desire to grow their family even more. “I’m ready when you are,” he commented on one of his wife’s Instagram posts in October. “We can call him Cinco.”

“This is my mating call I see…,” he then wrote in March under a video of Ciara in a peacock-inspired getup. “Cinco goin’ to be on di way!”

Many of the couple’s fans have been cheering Wilson on in his quest, about which Ciara told Access Hollywood, “He’s got a great campaign going, I’m not gonna lie … Y’all going to have a little love and sympathy for my ovaries over here? For my uterus?”

After meeting in 2015, Ciara and the athlete tied the knot in 2015. In the interview, the former shared some of her best advice for keeping the spark alive for as long as they have, gushing, “We love our date nights.”

“You gotta carve out time for the both of you,” she added. “Communication is so important. Sometimes you gotta talk about the ugly things and it’s just not comfortable, but I feel like when you break through that, you grow together.”

She also touched on the recent engagement of her husband’s former teammate DK Metcalf and her friend Normani, whom Ciara and Wilson set up. Earlier this month, the “Motivation” singer said on The Jennifer Hudson Show that she’d love for the “Goodies” artist to officiate their wedding and recalled, “[Ciara] kept telling me, ‘There’s this guy, there’s this guy,’ for literally like two years … when the time came around and the time was right, God put all of that together.”

On Access Hollywood, Ciara said, “Whatever DK and Normani want us to do, we’re going to be there for them.”

“We are beyond happy,” she added. “Like, we knew. We really believed in our souls that it was meant for those two to meet each other.”

Watch Ciara’s full interview below.