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Andrea Kelly’s Powerful Statement On Transgender Son

If you weren’t a fan of “Hollywood Exes” star Andrea Kelly before, her support for her transgender son will win you over. Andrea, who famously married and divorced R. Kelly, opened up about their transgender son Jay, who recently went public with his decision to move forward in his journey, in a way that makes humanity not seem so bad.

“All I can say about Jay is he makes it so easy to be a proud mom,” she said in a recent interview. “For parents, we need to realize, [our kids] have their own journey. Parents get it wrong when they don’t support their children. They have to go out and fight every day and face this world. The first battle should not be at home. I think that a lot of children in the LGBT community don’t succeed because the one thing they need the most is foundation. I just tell Jay all the time, baby you won the war. You’re gonna have a lot of battles but you won the war. Mama accepts and loves you for who you are. Your family does.”

She added:

My dad is a retired military naval officer and all he said was, “I’m gonna mess up sometimes and [use the feminine pronoun] ‘she’ but I’m gonna eventually get the ‘he’ thing. Just give grandpa some time. I’m gonna get it dude.” That was it.”

R. Kelly was also asked about the situation, in an interview with , where he said during an interview after performing at Chicago WGCI’s Summer Jam.”No matter what they are, who they are, they still your kids. You love them. You have to support them.”

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