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Home / Lifestyle / Parenting / Angela Bassett 7-Year Journey to Parenthood: Enjoy the Journey

Angela Bassett 7-Year Journey to Parenthood: Enjoy the Journey

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Angela Bassett is a champion on screen–the awards season of 2022 and 2023 proved that with the legendary actress being nominated and winning a number of awards for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But Bassett is also a champion off-screen with her family life. In March 2023, her twins joined Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance at the Oscars. Bronwyn and the Black Panther star wowed in coordinating purple gowns, while Slater and his dad looked handsome in all-black ensembles.

After seven years of trying IVF, Bassett and her husband welcomed fraternal twins Bronwyn Golden Vance and Slater Josiah Vance, 16, on Jan. 27, 2006, via surrogate.

“I had a dream about seven years ago that we were going to have twins. I didn’t know how it was going to happen,” Vance told Oprah in 2007. Bassett added, “Just standing there together, holding each other with the realization that this is the moment that we’ve been working toward, praying for … [it’s a dream come true].”

Even though Bassett and Vance both have established careers in acting, the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star believes this may not necessarily be the case for her kids.

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“They want to follow the success, but whether it be acting, I don’t get any clues to that right now,” Bassett, 64, said to PEOPLE while attending the 2023 BAFTA Tea Party on Saturday (Jan. 14). “It’s a little music, a little sports. But whatever they want to do, I support them.”

On Who’s the Better Parent

When it comes to parenting, Bassett has referred to herself as the “good cop,” while her husband Vance is “usually pretty calm but he is consistent.”

“He is the definition of a helicopter parent,” Bassett explains of her husband on Glamour.com.

“I have always told them, ‘I am your good time. Mama’s your good time. Because Daddy’s your helicopter,’” Bassett says. While the Black Panther star didn’t elaborate on what a “good time” with Mom looks like, it’s not hard to imagine, oh, I don’t know, red-carpet premieres for Marvel movies, perhaps?

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“They’re awesome young people, by and large, very kind, very thoughtful, very appreciative,” Bassett said of her kids. But just because they’re the children of celebrities doesn’t mean they didn’t have to work as hard as the next 18-month-old: According to Bassett, Slater and Bronwyn were making their own beds at just a year-and-a-half—which is more than what most 18-year-olds accomplish on a daily basis.

(Photo credit: Instagram screenshot)

On Her Daughter, Bronwyn

When she was younger, Bronwyn used to mimic her mother often — especially when it came to disciplining her brother Slater.

“I’m just speaking from my experience, but my daughter, from the time she was a little one, was always sort of looking to me for the example of what to do and how to be,” Bassett told Vulture in 2019. “I have twins, and if I told her brother something like, ‘Slater, put that down. Slater, don’t stand on that. Slater —’ she would be my little copy. If he would do something, she would say, ‘Slater, put that down! Slater, don’t stand on that!’ She was my little copycat!”

As Bronwyn and her brother grew up, they both found an interest in music. “They both play the piano and rap and play guitar, so they have a little musical interest that I drill into them, that I insist upon!” she told E! on the 2021 Golden Globes red carpet.

The actress also noted that Bronwyn and Slater both enjoyed her 2020 animated film Soul. “But I thought maybe they wouldn’t get into it because it’s jazz … but surprisingly they loved it,” she added. “They got a lot of the themes, a lot of the ideas from it and really appreciated it.”

At just 16 years old, Bronwyn has also shown a passion for giving back. In January 2022, Bronwyn began raising funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). The campaign raised more than $60,000 within seven weeks, winning Bronwyn the 2022 Los Angeles Team Member of the Year title.

On Sibling Rivalry

Although Slater and Bronwyn are close now, they weren’t always best friends growing up. According to Bassett, when both kids were young,

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