Jada Pinkett Smith: Mom talks about bad experiences as a pregnant woman

Jada Pinkett Smith
Mother talks about bad experiences as a pregnant woman

Adrienne Banfield-Norris and Jada Pinkett Smith jointly present the Facebook watch show “Red Table Talk”.

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Adrienne Banfield-Norris was “not treated well” as a black woman when she was pregnant. She now reveals that in the “Red Table Talk”.

Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 67, was “not treated well” when she was pregnant with her daughter Jada Pinkett Smith, 49. That reveals the mother-in-law of Hollywood superstar Will Smith (52) in the Facebook watch show “Red Table Talk”.

Together with her daughter, granddaughter Willow Smith (20) and the US activist Tamika Mallory (40), Banfield-Norris speaks in the latest episode about the lack of visibility of black women. When Mallory recounts the bad experiences she had as a pregnant 18-year-old with hospital staff, Banfield-Norris also remembers her pregnancy a good 50 years ago.

Adrienne Banfield-Norris: Doctors downplayed pain in Jada Pinkett Smith’s birth

“I was not treated well, I was not taken care of,” she says. “And I was in a hospital where my father was working as chief anesthetist at the time.” So the staff “knew exactly who I was”. Later, the doctors would not have wanted to know about the pain Banfield-Norris had during the birth of their daughter. “Oh, it’s not that bad,” she was told.

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