Jeannie Mai’s Daughter Is Bilingual: “I Taught Her Vietnamese & Jeezy Taught Her ‘South'”

Jeannie Mai Reveals Her Biracial Daughter Is Also Bilingual

On Tuesday, Jennie Mai, the former The Real co-host, talked with Jennifer Hudson on the Jennifer Hudson Show about all the ways her life has changed since the birth of her daughter, Monaco, 16 months.

“I love her so much, she’s so opinionated. And I think the best thing is learning how to really teach her how to own who she is,” Jennie Mai Jenkins, 44, said.

“She’s a beautiful blend of being Black and Vietnamese and I want her to really understand what that means as a powerful woman today.”

 

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Jennie Mai is married to the popular hip hop star Jeezy. She shares daughter Monaco with her husband Jeezy, 45. The two have been married since April 2021.

“We try to have her spend time with her Southern grandparents in Atlanta, in Georgia, and then she goes down to the Bay and she spends time with my Vietnamese grandparents all the time. So she understands both sides and I only speak Vietnamese to her. And then dad only speaks the South to her,” she joked.

Mai previously admitted she was nervous to share photos and videos of her daughter, because she finds she gets “really scared, guarded, and protected” over her first child. Mai said she “wasn’t prepared” for postpartum depression, but she’s thankfully been able to cope now that she has a clearer understanding of it.

“Now that I know what it is, I still get anxiety attacks, but I’m aware that it’s just a phase,” she added.