“Diana Ross’ 5 Children: Everything You Need to Know”.hienca

Get to know Diana Ross’ five kids: Rhonda, Tracee, Chudney, Ross and Evan

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During a 2018 guest appearance on Watch What Happens Live, the youngest of the Ross clan, Evan, said growing up in a “big family” helped him navigate his and wife Ashlee Simpson’s own blended family. “I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings,” Evan told host Andy Cohen. “I grew up with a big family. I think it’s a beautiful thing.”

Black-ish star Tracee is also grateful for her family and specifically her mom, who despite the demands of her career, was a very present and dedicated mother.

“The Diana Ross that the world knows — this global, international icon who paved the way and changed what glamour looked like and who Black women were in the world, particularly in that capacity — her Diana Ross-ness doesn’t hold a candle to her mom-ness,” she said on Naomi Campbell’s YouTube series No Filter with Naomi.

Tracee echoed this sentiment in her 2022 InStyle cover story. “My mom was extremely present,” she said. “Waking us up for school, sitting for dinner with us and giving us a genuine, anchored, real family life and home life. The most important thing to my mother was not fame, it was her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren.”

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In a 2015 New York Post interview, Rhonda opened up about learning about her biological father as a teen. “The bottom line was, I looked just like [Gordy], and my sisters looked just like their father, a 6-foot-tall Jewish American man,” she told the outlet. She added that she and her sisters had viewed Gordy as an “uncle,” so the news was more comforting than shocking.

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In 2017, Rhonda received the gig of a lifetime: opening for her mom on tour. “I was very moved when she asked me to open for her because what it says to me is that yes, I’m her daughter and yes, there’s nepotism at play, but it’s not solely that,” Rhonda said in an interview with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. “Because for 20 years I’ve been singing, she’s never [asked me] before. So what that says to me is she likes what I am building as my own brand and my own art and my own career. She likes it, she respects it and she feels that it’s a good companion to what she is doing and I agree.”

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Tracee has made a name for herself as an actress, having landed her first big gig on the CW’s Girlfriends. She played “den mother” Joan Clayton for all eight seasons from 2000 to 2008. In 2014, she began starring as Rainbow Johnson on ABC’s Black-ish. Tracee earned five Emmy nominations for her performance as Rainbow; the sitcom’s eighth and final season aired in 2022.

While Tracee’s Black-ish character is a wife and mother, she told InStyle that she was “happily single” in 2018.

Tracee doubled down on her belief that “society spoon-feeds” women the idea of marriage and growing a family during a 2021 interview with Marie Claire.​​ “I used to put myself to sleep dreaming of my wedding,” she said. “And I would still love all of that, but what am I going to do, just sit around waiting? Shut up. I’ve got so many things to do.”

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One of those things is launching her own hair care line, Pattern Beauty. The idea first came to her while working on Girlfriends. “It started out for me because I couldn’t find products and wasn’t seeing my natural beauty mirrored back to me in the world,” Tracee said on The Tonight Show in 2021. “Then when I got on Girlfriends, I realized that I was not the only one. There were so many people who were looking for products that actually met their hair where it was and how it grows out of our head.”

The actress made her singing debut in her 2020 movie The High Note. The film also marked the first time her mom had ever heard her sing. “There’s a reason I waited 47 years to let my voice out publicly!” Tracee told PEOPLE at the time. “It was my 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥hood dream to sing — but terrifying when your mother is who my mother is. The idea of comparison; that’s in a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’s mind or an adult’s mind. I could be taken down and obliterated.”

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Chudney earned an English and fine arts degree from Georgetown University, where she was also on the rowing team. She went on to teach elementary school with AmeriCorps’ Teach For America program for several years, per her LinkedIn. Like her big sisters, Chudney also dabbled in the entertainment industry — she worked as a production manager on NBC’s reality series Fame in 2003 and as a producer on Mesmerized in 2004.

In September 2012, Chudney welcomed daughter Callaway Lane Ross-Faulkner with then-boyfriend Joshua Faulkner, whom she married in June 2015. The two tied the knot in an outdoor ceremony surrounded by close friends and family. In a conversation with Inside Weddings, Chudney shared why they picked Hawaii for their destination wedding.

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In 2011, Chudney opened a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s bookstore and event space called Books and Cookies in Santa Monica, California. She also channeled her passion for 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’s literacy into a book titled Lone Bean, published by HarperCollins in 2012.

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The couple exchanged wedding vows on June 10, 2017, at Rancho Dos Pueblos in Santa Barbara, California, per Harper’s Bazaar. The bridesmaids, which included his sisters, donned off-white dresses and flower crowns, while the groomsmen were asked to accessorize their wedding day look with a hat of their choice. Ross opted for a top hat.

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He is known for his roles in the 2006 film ATL, CW’s 90210, The Hunger Games and The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

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Evan got candid about being a dad of three during a 2021 episode of the PEOPLE Every Day podcast, noting how “lucky” he felt to have had extra moments with his kids during the COVID-19 pandemic. “What a bonding experience with all of them. With Jagger, I feel like there’s been a lot of learning experiences that I feel like I may have missed a little bit of [otherwise],” he said.

He and Simpson also produced and starred in their own reality TV series called Ashlee + Evan, which premiered on E! in 2018. The series gave fans an inside look into their relationship and family life — including cameos from their famous family members and friends — as well as a peek into their joint music career.