NIA LONG: “MY SON IS MY FIRST PRIORITY”
It’s been two years since we last saw actress Nia Long onscreen, but the working mom wants you know that she has been keeping busy.
“I have a really busy life,” she says. “I have a nine-year-old son who is super busy with his activities and school, so he is my first priority. So when it comes to my work, I really like to cut to the chase and get the job done,”she says in the latest issue of Monarch magazine.
When Nia is not busy tending to her son Massai Zhivago Dorsey II and to her career, she makes time for community service-and she is teaching Massai to give back as well.
“I just left Fiji where I did a bunch of community service on the island. We went and mentored children, and we had a chance to really see and understand the village life and what these young children go through. We try to give them something to hold on to because they live under very poor circumstances. Some of them have to swim across a river just to get to school. So I took my son and it was just a life changing experience for him because he didn’t really understand what poor meant until he got there.”
She continues, “So I try to teach him that giving back is the biggest thing you can do in life because there is always somebody in need of something…I also know my son is watching my every move and I want him to be a good man. I want him to be an amazing professional, whatever he chooses to do. And I want him to be an amazing husband and father.”
The Summer Issue of Monarch Magazine is on magazine stands nationwide
Click here to see pictures from Nia’s photo shoot with Monarch magazine
10 Comments to “NIA LONG: “MY SON IS MY FIRST PRIORITY””
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I know thats right Nia. Thats the way it should be. I know for sure my kids are my 1st priority as well.
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Weird name, Massai Zhivago, i know he’s named after his dad, but he’s a cute kid.
Nia, you don’t have explain to anyone why acting/ your job is second best. Good for you mama. Massai won’t ever be able to say you were only worried about your celebrity status and not his affairs.
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Nia looks fresh faced and youthful as usual. I like her sons first name Massai, nice.
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Nia is looking wonderful as usual. Her son has gotten so big, and I also love his name.
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That was a wonderful experience for her son. In my opinion, a life w/o giving is no life at all. Good job Nia. She’s looking lovely as usual. Her son is so handsome. I like the name Massai. This must be a new magazine. I’ve never heard of it.
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She is so beautiful, she is ageless!
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I love nia long as well and her son is a handsome young man.massai went to fiji with his mom love it.its great that he got the chance to see how others live in the world.I love his name also
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EVELINA RAE, UR NAME ISN’T THAT GREAT EITHER. UR REALLY STARTING TO GET ON MY NERVES WITH ALL OF UR DUMB COMMENTS. WHO R U TO JUDGE SOMEONE’S NAME? DO UR NAME HAVE MEANING? HELL IS EVELINA RAE? ANYWAY, ANYHOO, MOVING ON……..NIA IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. LIKE SHE SAID BEFORE ABOUT BEYONCE, LEAVE THE ACTING TO ACTRESSES. DO U GUYS REALIZE JUST HOW GREAT THE MOVIE “OBSESSION” WOULD HAVE BEEN IF NIA LONG PLAYED THE PART?
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Whatever “Luvbug” i really don’t care. You don’t even know my name lol If you don’t like the comments then don’t read them in the future. That’s your opinion and you’re free to voice it. I said his name is weird, but he’s cute… what’s really the problem? I don’t think his name fits him, my opinion.
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