Meet My Mom, Mami Ana La Mamá

You've seen her on my social media platform. You've seen her in my concerts. You've seen her every single piece that I go, you go, we seen my mom. So today we're here in the office at the crib being organ the real real and UM, and I just want you guys to get to know me a little bit better. UM, get to know Exactly a Mata, but get to know me from my mom's perspective, from my mom's point of view, getting to talk about the way that she raised me,

my career, UM, how difficult it was for me. Um. Something that was really important that I wanted to touch today was on how was it for her as an immigrant mother to come, you know, to the United States and raise me and still made sure that I spoke spanis that I didn't lose that I always knew that I was Dominican, even though that I was born in Miami. That's why today I have my mom on the show. But before I officially present to you guys, my mom, I have to have to have to bring along my

co host TV NOONEZ. Oh my god, I'm so excited about this episode because we're taking it. You said that really, really nicely. But we have seen everything on TV this season, so um, let's not forget about that. Let's not forget to address the elephant in the room. How we have seen more of your mother this season in your personal life as well as your dad. Um, and so much

more so how important it was. But like a Mamiana, she wanted to have you come to this country for the American dream and this is like the perfect topic. So mommy de man, it's down to the world. What tell me a la super super uyosa exactly Ama Stevins and mucha felic program guyosa mouen contenta pore content. Yeah, it's a sacrifical who in two, but I complete your locomo tambien in a costa mucho sacrificio in cala calias

caladi a true farmers. Oh she's so cute. Thanks Mom, were fast um ja stepa voce case sister fasting migrants Mexico reficimu problema pero perfect proposita la to Savia kama Okay to Savia tokay yellow ground or to said no, no, no, no,

yea yeah, I said, you know. We have said also un artista, yea artista the control como microphono ceponiello, lota total tot to all a way in the characters okay to artista, no person madeoque lomasa familia and Don Francicola felicitas Sabina the suprematosa looking along call top your no. So basically what we have asked Amada's mom Momi Hanna, like what does she see and for the future of Amanda and she just wants her to just keep going.

We asked her about like when she was first on TV on Don Francico or anything, how did the family react to that. She's super happy for Amata and ask her, did you like really think that she was gonna be this big or did you think she was gonna be a teacher or or a doctor? She said no, Since she was younger, she would grab the first hair comb, she would have grabbed anything, and just started saying she knew that she was going to be a star. And I'm outa How does that make you feel? How does

that make you feel? Well? To be honest, I'm very proud of my mom and all her accomplishments. UM, I'm proud of the fact that I come from a hard working woman. She taught me, you know, everything that I know, my work, ethic, um, just the way that she raised me. She sacrificed a lot for me. And I'm grateful for those things because, UM, not a parent, not a lot of parents have the opportunity. Not a lot of them

would have. But thanks to all the things that she she did, I'm here today and I am a success story. I am part of the American dream. Um, and it feels good. It feels good to know that she's happy with with what I've done, because I must admit, you know, for those that may not understand or may not know, being part of the entertainment industry is like playing the lottery. You know, everybody wants to make it, not everybody does.

So for me to have been able to make it all the way to where I am and I'm not even halfway through all the things that i want to accomplish. Um, you know, I'm it's very satisfying. And I've been able to become now a provider for her, for my mom so that she no longer has to work. You know, she's had three restaurants in this country. She's done many things that, you know, with a lot of work and sacrifice, anything truly is possible. I'm no Mommy has her Instagram,

her followers, Mammy's famous. I remember her selling stuff. Yeah, she has hair products and everything. She sold um in bananas, she had her ba Alicious shop. Actually he's doing nails. She's doing nails now as well. Seems hello. Okay, so how about this. You know, I've always gonna have this opportunity, and I'm also gonna take it from you CTV to ask my mom a couple of questions. Okay, so here goes, here goes nothing. Okay, So guando replica, I want to

take you back, okay. Mental Republic Nicaud Panama because you lived in Panama for ten years as well. Go to the Panama Temple, dificile gando fruit taviandas and puertos ya and lovely markets and movemental principle Miami momentum. To maintain has to happen vistas yea happen mementos bueno inclusive in Panama, Embardi and bardio. Your long body, persona, the body your coming toldo plata no, the product, the they I don't know. Second,

come with me a little picnicana. You know, once you left the Dominican Republic, right, you had to sacrifice and you had to have many jobs. Can you talk to us a little bit about the jobs that you had once you came out of your country. But the naasas kakondo meter metok metoca familiar talo sings in papells in migrante media personal okay, so maybe mete okay, commu processaia

cosinando restauran market loco. You may come from bang there is a central yeah ilamna meda even coro contra yell the memeric We're okay, cha mean you're continuing their flooring in Bendia, Floridambia yeah, the holiday color, all the heron regular florid flyers and lukaro f cosa. Yeah, we we for those Amena understand but basically I know they don't have to recap, but I think it would be great for those that those big Spanish that we have a

lot my mom. My mom was basically saying that, um, she we ended up selling flowers in the in the corners and the stop signs, passing out flyers, cleaning houses. You know, when I was very, very young, she ended up living Insteade, one of those homes where she's talking about how humiliating it was because they knew that she didn't have any papers and they would consistently make her

work and then not pay her. I mean, she went through many things, um as an immigrant woman in this country with a small child, nonetheless a child that eventually wanted to become an artist and become famous, which put a lot of pressure on her. But I always said that I'm grateful because she supported me instead of telling me, no, find something else. She figured out other ways to support my dreams, my goals and aspiration as an artist and

found actually other jobs. And part of that is like and I told you oh, mommy, I want to be an artist. I want to be famous. Was that a lot of pressure for you? But you said family like, so you see so like at the place. So I'm the tsona tista. But I think I'm oh, well, that's a influence a taste, don't I know? Campo class, piano lo class they smbol with me into. Drove me crazy.

She drove me crazy. But I'm so grateful because if it wasn't because she put me in all these classes and and I started taking classes when I was about four four years old or so ballet and hip hop and all those type of things, and she said it having me in singing classes. And if it wasn't because of all the pressure that she put at me at an early age and doing beauty paget and all those things,

I wouldn't be worried today. I wouldn't have the professionalism or the work ethic that I was able to have throughout the years because of all the pressure. And when she says that she put me in singing class and she really did, like she oh deed on all these damn classes that I don't I don't even tap dance anymore. She hasn't even giving me advice. She's like, you need to do this. You didn't do that. If you're gonna

be here, you need to be in Miami. Needs to do this, you need to like she has the formula minds me of like Michael Jackson's dad and like the good parts and stuff like that. But they w I have a question for both of you, guys, because like when you, guys, I saw that you reposted the border patrol agents when they had horse and whips and I guess the Haitians trying to cross the border, How did that make you feel? Amara? And okay, like how did

you feel? Not I get starting in lapil in persona, in lamente persona, pero it is your pills, okay, you traformers maybe too, Pa Marsala, you Cala, Cassie and them. Yeah, it makes me feel I'm gonna be completely honest. I am very passionate. I think maybe as the liber in me, maybe is the spirit of my ancestors within me. I don't know what it is, but I hate injustice and me coming from an immigrant mother, me seeing all the sacrifices that she did, um me understanding as an adult

now that the reason why she left her country. Wasn't because she wanted to be away from her family, wasn't because she wanted to explore the world by herself at seventeen. Was because of necessity when you find yourself in a space, especially right now, like when I saw the Haitian community, um, you know, protesting and just you know, in the borders of of just watching the way that they were being

mistreated really made me feel connected to them. And this is not even if their Haitian or if they're this, if they're human beings, not even animals deserve to be treated that way. Where there's children, pregnant women, elderly people, women, child them, I mean men, there's all types of people, and they're leaving because every so often their country has gone through some type of worldly earthquake, hurricane, something that

has been out of their control. There's been so many people doing these go fund you know, go fund me and all these fake as foundations to profit and financially benefit out of these terrible occasions and things that have happened to them too, then just keep the money and

not support and help them back. And just seeing the way that they were treated only made me think of God forbid if it would have been my mother, and it would have been my mother, you know, sacrificing her life, because it's a sacrifice to go through that, through through that river, to go through that standing in the sun all day, to just go through all those things, just looking for a better future. Because you're looking for food,

they're looking for shelter. They're not looking to steal, they're not looking to harm, They're looking for help, for assistance, no scare. I am saying pro illegal immigrants. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that, you know, the country should just be feeled like that, that that there shouldn't be some type of filter where people have to do some type of documents and do it the legal way.

I understand that part. But when you see twelve thousand, thirteen, fifteen thousand people running and rushing asking for help, this is about like, this is a state of emergency. This is they're asking for help. This is not that they're just coming here because they want to take over the United States. You can talk about this over and over again, and this topic you go for a very long time, but the point is that this country was truly made from the sacrifices of immigrants and um, you know, they

worked very hard to build this country. So to just throw people out as if they're not human, I think that is extremely unfair. Lobalmen Gusto VI como persona, como Lobelicaiano ikuano i Colombiano. That's the other thing. It's not

just Haitian people that are there. I had to comojo j mel and tifico as conte to m it's a come on place peripara gona com rio and trevida c vido look longo la difficult ties cimp con at rizalatera e grande rand do brando kan Silesia, no conco, no pass fronto, no price, see your visist, Okay, come come afay boto co met co may nona nalana cruz ri

contract persona cora practice. Maybe we don't know. It's not persona your gut don't don't yes yea nor music cancer in caminar conception pasoa leko being the pesces agrificio considered Medican and repulica Menicano geno toc lu like. Have you had the opportunity of living the American dream? Do you think it was with pavajo meal. They mysell cancella campany princip consider Americano porking to time and to com tomato, you know in America opero them. No, wait wait because

I want to ask her question. Yes, um about vida Come, oh my god, I know this your your medicina meda, you're okay, your boy, your money yellow me that you know that pielt i mama, but I mean, but I mean InLu like she rushed me to the emergency. They pumped my stomach all types of thing and they didn't find anything. I was just tired and sleepy. But I had just opened up all her hydeblood pressure pills and threw them all over the van. And I remember she

was stressed out. Well there was that you go in and no kids come, no, no, not complaint. I know. I used to see her saving her legs and everything all the time time and then she would plug her eyebrows. So I just feel like if I got the razor did the same thing my mom, then I could do it. And I just literally just took off my whole eyebrows off. Um you know, kids, dot tropitalo I anything grip now

bel meicina, benling your being the note counter you. My mom was always very a segment emergency but ever your pec pro Okay, the den wentlin bueno. As a child, you know, I did a couple of things. You gotta it's regular, it's normal. But you think you think I was a bad kids. Yes, yes, that's what kids do. That's regular. I you know, I used to have fun, not so many the fact that I was was an only child, so it could get slightly boring, and I

was just looking for ways to find entertainment. Come on, come Minicana, come on, latin Na. I'm so grateful that my mom pushed me so hard to learn Spanish. She would have me reading the newspaper, she had pe in the house all the time, she would have mil, she would have like she has so much latin influence in the household that I knew when I was going home, I'm Dominican, I'm Latina. Obviously, once I went to school and I was out that it was like, okay, so

here I'm more American. But my mom always made sure that I knew that I was latinae Latina behind place same prey mea and to say maxim in English Multicultura and to a movie by and defeasive problem at MT English to the American is salo and coma casa contella music, Yeah, Ami pies practical being oh there a Dominican co Dominican and turning you a no nada to say yo. Then met conte but we used to have a lot of issues and we used to fight all the time because

I felt like I'm American. I don't have to speak Spanish. I was born here, I don't have to speak Spanish, and I hated talking Spanish like I'm talking about like I'm ten years old and I'm still like a barbecuite to list me all. I'm not doing that. Leave me a little mom like I used to go through that stage and I remember my mom beating my ass so hard. Kelly, pisy you okay, no, no, just Americano, sa little. It's true.

I got my first I got my first TV opportunity as a TV host when I was twenty years old in this network called me. The show was CALLEDAO and they were doing auditions and once they showed me how much they were gonna pay, they were like, have you ever been a TV housset? And I was like, yeah, sure, never in my life, I had never done it, but I just wanted the opportunity and I knew that if I was messing up, it was gonna be a learning

experience for me. So then it really was grateful that my mom pushed me so hard to learn Spanish, because if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have been able to get that gig. And that gig led me into working later on with Vika Santos and uh Santos and UniMas. Then I got to do so many other opportunities that came through that, and personally I wished it, and you know, the language, because my my thing is that I always

want to grow. But I'm grateful that no matter what, my mom always maintained the Dominican culture, of the Latino culture in the household. Lom you know, she always um would play a ligno nacional. She would have me read the newspaper. She would do that. She would make sure that I in your country, in your country, because my mom always made it feel like, this is your country, the Dominican Republic. You're born in Miami, you're American, but

in your country we black. I know, this is who you are, this Sclatto, and I think that that part is important. I'm being because you have to be proud of where you come from. You have to be proud of your ancestries and all those things build you up and make you who you are. Like if you're Puerto Rican, you have to know about where you come from. These are your people. This is a connection that you have.

If you're not with your future, it helps you with your future because sometimes he asks us a lot of questions, why you act like this, why you're like this one? These are generational things. Mommy, Francisco Como como police trial Don Francico, Like that was the biggest, mom like the biggest. Yeah, Okay, Corama como como Amara and show they do Francisco. Look, can you're being a commercial? Ela Curio being being being

compromat return consultell Alguenia. You can go, they say the hell yeah when you India, come Condomonito, I say, don't need to have to serve to pass Upasa Intel City. You can people vitorial you like condo recommend in Numeroo contntrol Lady Violet, Yes ahead, I know, yeah, yeah, perfect, come on maybe yes yeah, the rest was history. I got to um after that, I actually want CHICKI Tika UM.

And then once that one, Don Francisco put my mom to aside and asked her if she would be interested in having me in the children panel that they had. So I was there for six years every Saturday. I basically got to grow up in Don Francisco. Um. Then from there I became a background dancer for Elkhana for the channel, and then they had a show called said. I did so many things that were you know, basically

on the network. And after that then it was just okay, well, now I want to try music, and I'm like, I already know how to dance. I'm already comfortable on TV. I want to try music. Then my mom for me in like singing classes. I started doing music. Um, I did my little Deno. I just did so many things that one thing led to the other, and I think it was all a build up. It was all like meant to be because it led me to where I am today. Okay, mommy real men your second I okay,

I might have started loving hip hop. No, okay, so you know pro rama in reality the too, you know, republica lad, some me in my transparent nihaa platform I did. I told people personam, I told people they are tastasia yesterday, I young cosa I personata. So my mom don't care about it. That okay. My mom is like, and the's gonna bring you some she shouldn't be all politically correct.

Let me tell you. My mom is like, look, if this is gonna bring you some money, if this is gonna give you a platform where you can share your music, it's exactly see where you can share your music, expose who you are and gain gain opportunities and fans. My mom is like, go for it, you know. Let me tell you something. Since my mom was like, exactly a matter watch this, Mommy, would you be mad at me if I have an only fans fans? No? Se you see yo. Let me tell my mom is like, you're young,

this is your time to do it. What the world has to say, you do what you gotta do. If it was it's funny because my mom is the one. I'm more conservative, believe it or not. You see my plea out like I want to cover myself up. I don't want to do too even though I have a big personality. My mom is the one that he said give up that away in singing. You see, you're the poet for you're young, so you know, but I can't co even if it's oh, I can send a mass

open hello MARIEO artistical la personal partner can also my plicito. Okay, so I mommy, and plus you know it's a sad idea meal. You spoil me, mommy, But it's okay. I know that I'm because do you make top you know, you make sure that we are good attack omego. She's like, but a yes, come on, Losa, yeah un Losa. I want you guys to go follow my mom at her social media platform, which is Mammiana La Mama one, Mammy

and Mama one on Instagram. I'm gonna be posting it so you guys can go follow support and then she'll be putting some behind the scenes some BTS stuff there too, so you guys can go check it out. Stevie, give your social media platform so they can follow you too. It's Stevie noonez as t e v E y n E w n e C. And it's funny because whenever

I'm with Mammyana, we be going him. I'm gonna have to go visit cam told followed me at a madela negra aln madela negra a l n. Of course, don't forget to follow exactly a Mada exactly a Mada on Twitter and on Instagram, and also go check us out. All of our episodes are available if you go to YouTube and write a model Nager or exactly a mode so you can re enjoy these episodes. Not to mention the fact that I love the fact that we were able to have my mom today because this is like

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See you guys next Thursday. And thank you mommy for joining us today. Apoyandong White guys,