After the birth of her son Saphir in September of 2018, and making headlines after walking Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty A/W Show during New York Fashion Week while in labor, Slick Woods has more reasons to celebrate now that her mother has been released from prison after 17 years.
“Cried a lot,” the 5’10 model wrote on her Instagram post featuring her mother. “Me n’ mom, fresh out after 17 years in prison.”
Since the age of four Woods was raised by her grandmother between Los Angeles and Minneapolis, after her mother was sentenced to prison for manslaughter. Unfortunately, Woods life at the age of seven shifted bumpier after her grandmother divorced her husband and the two found themselves spending time in cars and motels. The unofficial face of Fenty eventually became homeless and was on track to what many felt was the same path as her formerly incarcerated mother.
“I was in a place where I didn’t believe in anything, so I was susceptible to evil energy,” Woods said in an interview with E.S. Magazine in 2018. “I’m so easily turned. It’s not something I’m proud of,” she continued. “And when everyone in the world is telling you that you’re going to be just like your mother, and then you’re behind bars…”
Thankfully for Woods, after a stint in jail of two to three months at the age of 18, she was able to choose a different path for herself, and a year later she modeled for Kanye West in Yeezy, allowing her to one day provide for her mother once she was released from prison.
“Being a gang member, everyone expected her to not be the best mum,” Woods said in an interview with Elle Magazine back in 2018. “But my mum was very hands-on with me as a child. My mummy read to me in the womb,” she said. “And she’s proud because she knows that everybody expected me to be exactly what she was. She went to prison when she was 19. I became a model at 19. And I can take care of my mother when she gets out.”
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