Ciara and Russell Wilson are officially authors now with the debut of their first children’s book, Why Not You?. Released by Random House, the picture book for readers ages 4-8 builds on the mindset the celebrity couple was raised with and that led them to be superstars on the field and on the stage.“For me it was in the words.
My parents spoke life into me,” Ciara tells ESSENCE of the upbringing that inspired the book. “I didn’t have a lot, but I had a why not you attitude.
Also seeing my parents make it happen with the little that we had also inspired me. For me, that was my way of my why not attitude, they supported me and my dreams.”For Ciara, that meant her dad driving her to recording sessions and sleeping on the couch in the studio until she was done laying tracks on her way to becoming an international singing sensation.
For Russell, that attitude was instilled in him in the way he was pushed to excel above and beyond.“For me, growing up, my dad and my mom used to always ask, ‘Son, why not you?
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