25 Famous Mothers and Daughters Portraits

The elder daughter of Diana Ross and music executive Robert Silberstein, Tracee Ellis Ross starred for eight seasons on the UPN/CW sitcom “Girlfriends” and currently appears on ABC’s “Blackish.”

Tracee Ellis Ross: “We had a lot, and as much as I knew that everybody didn’t live that way, [my mom] didn’t raise us with a sense of entitlement. She used to say things like, ‘Oh no, no, no, I worked for all of this. This is mine and I’m not leaving any of it to you. I’m going to spend it, so you’d better get a job, little girl.'”