Tina Knowles is celebrating — and defending — her granddaughter. After Blue Ivy won the YoungStars award at the BET Awards 2024 On Sunday, Tina took to Instagram to praise Beyonce It is JAY-Z12-year-old daughter for her maturity and success.
“Congratulations my Blue Blue! I am in awe of your talent, your beauty, your intelligence, but I am most proud of your kindness and down to earth attitude,” Tina wrote alongside a stunning photo of Blue. “Never seeking attention, just chill and relaxed as a cucumber (sic) all the time.”
“Yesterday you played the piano just for me like someone who has been taking lessons for years. But you are self-taught,” she continued. “One day I hope you will let me post and brag like other grandmothers do. But for now you have made me swear not to share.”
Tina went on to talk about how Blue plays sports, is a talented artist, has great musical talent and dance “like a pro in front of 80,000 people” during Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour.
The proud grandmother went on to highlight some of Blue’s many accomplishments, including voice acting narrating the children’s book Hair love, giving voice to a character in the next Lion King prequel Mufasa and be a young GRAMMY winner — all before his teens!
“Despite all the challenged adults battling the green-eyed monster disease, in true Carter/Knowles/Beyince tradition (sic), it just motivates you to keep moving,” Tina concluded. “Congratulations BIC, you deserve everything you work hard to achieve. Thank you BET #betawards for this honor.”
This isn’t the first time Tina has addressed the negativity directed at Blue. In May, Tina spoke on criticism of her granddaughter’s dance performance during “My Power” and “Black Parade” on Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour.
“One of her friends came back and showed some negative comments and it was a great life lesson because her mom basically said, ‘Listen, if you let it get you down, then they’ve won. So you should go out there and work harder. And, you know, just work harder and gather your skills and go out there and kick ass,'” Tina said during an appearance on Vogue‘s The race through podcast. “So it actually worked in Blue’s favor because she was only supposed to do it once. But now her mom, that mama bear, was on to something. It was like, she was like, ‘Go out there and kill it,’ and she did. She just grew so much from that experience.”
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