Gabrielle Union’s Daughter Kaavia Interviews Her at Folks Photoshoot (Unique)

When requested to explain her mother Gabrielle Union’s type in just some phrases, six-year-old Kaavia James Union Wade doesn’t skip a beat: “Fancy and excellent.”

“Fancy,” she explains, comes all the way down to her mother’s assortment of jewels.

Union’s most prized piece of glitz is a Tiffany & Co. starfish hair clip that she wore to the 2024 Met Gala together with her husband, retired NBA star Dwyane Wade. She paired it with a mermaid-style gown that was impressed by her “water child,” who began swimming at 5 months outdated. 

Union lent the aquatic clip to Kaavia for PEOPLE’s World’s Most Lovely shoot, whereas she modeled one among her daughter’s play tiaras.

(Dad joined too, snapping movies on his cellphone from behind the digital camera.) 

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Past sporting Union’s jewels, Kaavia loves attempting on her mother’s excessive heels (so she might be “tall like Angel Reese,” says Union) — and gravitates in direction of something pink.

She’s additionally unafraid to talk her thoughts, one thing Union says she received from her and Wade: “She positively has a thoughts of her personal.”

Her particular person expression is inspired by her mother and father, whose largest recommendation to their youngest daughter is, “No matter you need do…Whether or not it is make-up or hair or how she clothes, it is utterly as much as her. It is her physique. These are her decisions,” Union says.

“You do not have to observe anyone,” she assures Kaavia. “It is nobody else’s alternative however yours the way you specific your self.”

Union: What’s your favourite factor that we do collectively, me and also you?

Kaavia: After we go on a date collectively.
Union: Aw, that is my favourite too.

Kaavia: What’s your favourite factor our household does collectively?

Union: My favourite factor our household does collectively is I like after we all eat collectively outdoors and we spend time collectively outdoors in our yard.

Union:  How would you describe Mommy’s type? 

Kaavia: Fancy and excellent.
Union: Oh, that is an enormous praise, fancy and excellent. What makes it fancy?
Kaavia: As a result of you’ve gotten a variety of jewels. 
Union: Oh, yeah. Shout out to Tiffany.

Kaavia: Why do you want being fancy?

Union: Typically I like being fancy once I’m going out and I am seeing totally different folks. I need them to know that not solely can I be cool and informal, however I may spruce it up and be fancy. However I do not at all times wish to be fancy. Mommy’s in a gown rather a lot. Would you agree?
Kaavia: Sure.

Kaavia: And why do you at all times like sporting wigs?

Union: Ooh, triggered. As a result of I like to change it up. I like to change up my look. As a result of typically I need to have brief hair and typically I need to have lengthy hair, typically I need to have blonde hair. And with wigs, I can do all these various things and play all these totally different sorts of characters.

Union: Why do you wish to put on wigs?

Kaavia: So I can have lengthy hair. 
Union: However you do have lengthy hair. 
Kaavia: Not poofy lengthy hair. 
Union: You do have poofy lengthy hair, and silky straight lengthy hair, and curly lengthy hair. You identical to change, proper?
Kaavia: Sure. 

Union: If you are available Mommy’s lavatory or my closet, what do you at all times come to steal?

Kaavia: Your sneakers.
Union: My sneakers. What sort of sneakers?
Kaavia: Excessive heels.
Union: Sure. What do you want about excessive heels?
Kaavia: I like getting greater with them and I like simply pretending that I am greater.
Union: You need to be tall like Angel Reese?
Kaavia: Yeah.

Union: What’s your favourite matchy-matchy outfit [that we wear]?

Kaavia: Pajamas
Union: Yeah. Which pajamas?
Kaavia: The Little Mermaid ones.

Union: If you give Mommy and Daddy makeovers, what do you want finest about that?

Kaavia: After I do your make-up, I wish to look you good. However once I do daddy’s make-up, he simply does not prefer it. He wipes it off.
Union: Oh, no. However nonetheless, I feel he appears good.
Kaavia: Me too.
Union: Particularly his eye shadow.

Union: What’s your favourite piece of make-up? Do you want blush or…?

Kaavia: No, it is eyeshadow.
Union: Oh, eyeshadow.
Kaavia: Wait, no, it is not eyeshadow. It is mascara.
Union: Mascara. Are you able to do your individual make-up?
Kaavia: Yeah, I can.
Union: Yeah, you’ll be able to

Union: Do you suppose Daddy or I take [the longest to get ready]? Zaya?

Kaavia: You’re taking a very long time.
Union: That was so quick. You do not need to give it some thought? No?
Kaavia: You at all times take so lengthy as a result of it’s important to get your make-up carried out. I am like, “Mommy, hurry up.”
Union: I imply, the opposite folks need to get their make-up carried out, too, however not so long as Mommy?
Kaavia: They go faster.
Union: They go faster. Okay. Yeah. Famous.

PEOPLE: You’ve mentioned that you just’re archiving a few of your previous appears, that are within the assortment up to now?

Union: With the Met [Gala] appears, we do not get to archive all of them right here. The one one I have been in a position to preserve is the primary one. So out of the Met appears, there’s just one that is on this glass case, that is hung up, however my marriage ceremony clothes, as a result of I had multiple, sure pink carpet appears which might be in there, simply appears that I feel she may respect that’ll positively come again, that I simply need to save for her.

PEOPLE: Is there one look particularly that you’d like to see her put on sooner or later?

Union: Oh, my marriage ceremony gown. My marriage ceremony gown.
Kaavia: I noticed your marriage ceremony gown.
Union: Sure. Would you need to put on that once you get married sooner or later?
Kaavia: Sure. 

PEOPLE: What recommendation are you and your husband passing all the way down to all of your youngsters about magnificence, type, self-expression?

Union: The recommendation that we give [Kaavia] is, “It is no matter you need do.” Relating to her hair, clearly I am obsessive about it. There’s a variety of work and a small workforce that does her hair to verify it is wholesome. However what she does with it, how she chooses to precise herself, whether or not it is make-up, or hair, or how she clothes, it is utterly as much as her. It is her physique. These are her decisions. And so long as it is protected and acceptable for the climate, then it is actually as much as her. And you do not have to observe anyone, it is nobody else’s alternative however yours the way you specific your self.

PEOPLE: As she grows up, what are the qualities that you just see of your individual and Dwyane’s in her?

Union: That she positively has a thoughts of her personal. She is just not afraid to talk up for herself.
Kaavia: I am not afraid, typically at college.
Union: Typically at college.
Kaavia:  Loads of occasions, like daily.
Union: We do need to reiterate advocating for your self along with your friends. It is much less authority, extra peer to see in that you do not have to at all times simply do what everybody else is doing simply in order that they keep buddies with you. That is not actual friendship. It is you get to do your issues that you just love to do. And typically they do what they love to do.

Union: Nicely, after we’re carried out right here, do you need to preserve this look or do you need to return to informal Kaavia?

Kaavia: Hold this look.
Union: I feel lots of people can relate once you get your hair and make-up carried out and also you simply need to preserve going out, as a result of everybody ought to see your hair and make-up.
Kaavia: I am simply going to wipe off my make-up and simply have my hair out.
Union: Oh, okay. That sounds truthful.

Union: What do you suppose Mommy’s wanting ahead to most once you grow old?

Kaavia:  Loving me nonetheless.
Union: Nicely, I feel once you grow old, I am wanting ahead to all of her firsts. However our different children have not likely been into…
Kaavia: There’s so many children
Union: …college dances and homecomings. So I am hoping we get some homecomings and promenade.

Union: Do you’re feeling such as you’re about carried out with answering questions?

Kaavia: Sure.
Union: Do you need to thank all people?
Kaavia: Sure. Thanks for being right here.
Union:  And what else? I feel all of them did a fairly good job. What do you suppose?
Kaavia: Sure. I feel they did a fairly good job. I might like to see them once more.