A big part of the reason why Solange and Beyoncé have a rock-solid relationship now is that their mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson, had the foresight to have them go to therapy to help them sort through their issues. Speaking with Maria Shriver in 2018, Mama Knowles said that since her daughters had a five-year gap, Beyoncé was not quite fond of Solance when she was little.
“She couldn’t stand her for a minute,” Tina explained. “You know, they were little, [Solange] was all in her stuff, trying to hang around her and her friends and Beyoncé was really irritated, but it made her more sensitive to who her sister was and what she had to deal with because of her.” Tina, too, paid close attention to Solange since Beyoncé rose to popularity quite early. “I had days I devoted to [each of them] — on Wednesday, I took off work, and that was Solange’s day. She was a lot younger than Beyoncé. It was tough because Beyoncé was this little superstar in our city.” The counseling paid off because eventually, Beyoncé learned “to be sensitive to the fact that Solange had to deal with being a little bit in her shadow. And it made her way more sensitive and protective.”
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Eventually, Solange and her family joined Destiny’s Child on tour, and she got to support her sister a bit by being a backup dancer. “It was really nice, ’cause in a weird way, we were able to have a lot more of a consistent family life,” she told The Fader.
