Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinket, has shared some straight-talking advice about learning to love stepchildren and their mothers in a fierce Facebook post.
Using Will's son from his first marriage, Trey, as an example, she explained that women need to let go of their insecurities and open their hearts to their 'blended families' as fully as possible.
She wrote: "Blended families are NEVER easy, but here's why I don't have a lot of sympathy for your situation because… we CHOOSE them.
"When I married Will, I knew Trey was part of the package. Period!
"If I didn't want that, I needed to marry someone else. Then I learned if I'm going to love Trey, I had to learn to love the most important person in the world to him - his mother."
"And the two of us may not have always LIKED each other… but we have learned to LOVE each other."
Jada continued: "I can't support any actions that keep a man from his children of a previous marriage.
"These are the situations that separate the women from the girls. Your behaviour is that of an insecure child who needs to recognise her own weaknesses that MUST be strengthened to take on the task at hand.
"We can't say we love our man and then come in between him and his children. THAT'S selfishness - not love.
"WOMAN UP!"
She added: "I've been there. I know. My blended family has made me a giant [and] taught me so much about love, commitment - and it has been the biggest ego death to date.
"It's time you let your blended family make you the giant you truly are."
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