VICTORIA ROWELL:A MOTHER WITH A CAUSE
VICTORIA ROWELL is a mother with a cause. The actress who is best known for playing Drucilla Winters on soap opera, “The Young and the Restless,’ has written a memoir titled “The Women Who Raised Me.” In her book,Victoria acknowledges the women who raised her during her 18 years spent in foster care. the month of May is National Foster Care Month,Victoria is helping to shed light to the issues of foster care…In addition,Victoria’s foundation helps to bring financial support to children in foster care.This is what the actress has to say about her non-profit organization:
In 1990, with my acting career in full swing I started RFCCP, a non-profit charitable organization offering scholarships to help children in foster care thrive through participation in fine arts classes, sports camps, and cultural enrichment activities. Our goal is simple: to help children who would otherwise not have a chance to reach their full potential. We strive to offer children the same long-term commitment and opportunities that foster parents, social workers, and mentors can provide. I believe that exposing them to these various disciplines at an early age enriches their lives more than we know, just as they did for me and others like me.
Victoria has two children in all. Her fist child named Maya(pictured to the right) is from her first marriage to Tom Fahey. Her second child,a son named Jasper(pictured to the left) is from her relationship with jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
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I love Vic ! She was so geat as Dr Amanda on Diagnosis Murder.
I hope after her book tour Drucilla returns.
lol a white kid and a black kid
@Natalie,
You are very ignorant with your comment. I hope you don’t have any children. Grow up!
her daughter is actually adopted. She is not her biological child.
@Natalie you are a real WINNER what difference does it make? Her daughter is adopted as noted. She has a white parent and a black parent so WHAT! She loves her daughter and did a good thing by adopting her. BTW Kevin Federline has black children and white children so what!!
OK back to the photo - her son is interesting looking. I love her and have so much repsect for her.
I thought I remembered years ago Victoria talking about her daughter and that because she looks white that people didn’t think Maya was/is hers, but I do not remember her saying that she is adopted. I found a reference to a an interview she did with Essence magazine in 1995 (http://forums.s2smagazine.com/showthread.php?s=a7f999d1efd31b2eda1426e27e3cde02&t=23834&page=2), “Today she’s wearing sweatpants and a top emblazoned with the Diagnosis Murder logo. Her smooth cappuccino complexion is scrubbed clean, and her buoyant curly ringlets are doing their thing. But just when you think there’s an end to Victoria’s “secrets,” from stage left enters her daughter, Maya–an angelic cutie pie who has blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin. Yes, Maya’s father, Rowell’s ex-husband, is White.” I couldn’t find the complete or original article online.
As far as a black woman ( a woman who by societies standards looks black) having a white child (again by societies standards) I believe I remember seeing a picture of Eartha Kitts’ daughter and she looked completely “white” (blonde hair and light light colored eyes). There are several pictures at Getty images of Earth Kitts’ daughter - http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?src=quick&contractUrl=2&assetType=image&family=editorial&phrase=eartha%20kitt%20daughter#. I believe both Eartha and Victoria are bi-racial too.
you are right. her daughter is not adopted
why are people so ignorant and so quick to assume that her daughter is adopted!
Her daughter is not adopted. She has spoken out about this so many times. She is biracial and her daughter’s father is white. People really need to educate themselves about gene diversity.
Maya is a quadroon (1/4 black). Same as Eartha Kitt’s daughter. Quadroons most often look white.
I’m appalled! “quadroon?!” Thats slavery talk….you’d think we were on an 1800’s plantation!
No her daughter is not adopted, she is 100% biologically her child. Some people need to get their facts right. Donna Summers daughter is even whiter looking than that girl and it’s her real child. People see white women and men producing pure looking black children all the time, so why can’t a black woman or man produce a white looking child?
Victorias a great mom!
Leave Natalie alone! She can make that observation if she wants! Ms. Rowell is half white by the way.