Queen Latifah is best known for her musical and acting talent and has built quite a successful professional career over the years, but it turns out she’s also a doting mother. The “U.N.I.T.Y.” crooner has one child, a son, that she has been raising in her private life. In addition to being a parent to her son, she previously stepped up into the role of a caregiver to her mom, Rita Owens , after she was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2005.q

“As a caregiver — it’s just like being a parent, like some things really don’t matter,” Queen Latifah told PEOPLE before her mom’s death in 2018. “All the kind of frivolous things sort of fall to the side because there’s something way more important than all that. And when we go through these things together as a family, I realize, these are

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