Gloria Carter and Roxanne Wiltshire pose at the Shawn Carter Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Black Tie Gala.Photo:Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
JAY-Z’s motherGloria Carterand her wife Roxanne Wiltshire attended their first red carpet as newlyweds.
Aftergetting marriedearlier this month, the Carter family matriarch attended theShawn Carter Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Black Tie Gala on Friday evening, where she and Wiltshire posed for photographs with one another.
Carter — who serves as the foundation’s CEO and co-founder — wore a sleek black tuxedo jacket with leather lapels, a gray silk scarf under her collar and a fashionable pair of black glasses.
Wiltshire, meanwhile, matched her longtime partner in a sequin and strapless black gown that she accessorized with a silver necklace.
Others in attendance at the exclusive gala at Pier Sixty in New York City included JAY-Z,DJ Khaled, Tinashe, Rudy Gay, Lil Uzi Vert, Meek Mill andRobert Kraft.
Gloria Carter and Roxanne Wiltshire pose at the Shawn Carter Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Black Tie Gala.Bryan Bedder/Variety via Getty
Bryan Bedder/Variety via Getty
Carter and Wiltshire tied the knot in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City in early July,TMZpreviously reported.
JAY-Z, 53, andBeyoncéattended the event, alongside other celebrity guests likeKelly Rowland,Tina Knowles-Lawson,Tyler PerryandRobin Roberts.
Beyoncé, 41, later gave an inside look at her wedding attire witha post shared on Instagramshortly after, showing that she rocked a corseted Dolce & Gabbana bodysuit and a matching skirt.
Her firstborn, daughterBlue Ivy Carter, rocked a floor-length sage green colored silk Reformation gown.
JAY-Z first discussedhis mother coming out to him as a lesbianin 2017, on his most recent Grammy-nominated LP4:44. On the album’s third track “Smile,” the Brooklyn native explained the toll that being in the closet had on Carter.
JAY-Z later elaborated on his mom when speaking withDavid Letterman for hisMy Next Guest Needs No Introductionseries, that he did indeed cry when his mom told him she had fallen in love.
“Imagine having to live your life as someone else and you think you’re protecting your kids,” he said in 2018. “For her to sit in front of me and tell me ‘I think I love someone,’ I really cried … I cried because I was so happy for her that she was free.”
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In 2017,Carter recalled the momentshe came out to her son while appearing on theD’Usse Fridaypodcast.
“I was sitting there and I was telling him one day. I just finally started telling him who I was. Besides your mother, this is the person that I am, you know? This is the life that I lived,” she said.
“So my son started actually, like, tearing because he was like, ‘That had to be a horrible life, Ma.’ I was like, ‘My life was never horrible. It was just different.’ So that made him want to do a song about it.”
source: people.com
