Today, Tina Knowles shared the cover of her highly anticipated memoir, MATRIARCH. While most of the world would be excited with the prospect of getting their hands on Knowles’s biography, her daughter, Beyoncé, issued a playful warning to her mother after the news broke.
“I’m thrilled to announce that my memoir, MATRIARCH, will be publishing this April, and I’m excited to share its cover with you now,” Tina wrote alongside a look at the book’s illustrated cover. “I have always been a storyteller, and it’s something I learned from my mother.”
She also explained the book’s title to her followers: “I am calling this book MATRIARCH because what inspires me is the wisdom that women pass on to each other, generation to generation—and the inner wisdom we long to uncover in ourselves. Even at 70 I am still learning valuable lessons—revelations that I wish that I would have had at 40 or even 20. I want to share this knowledge now, one to one with the reader, as we laugh and sometimes cry together through all the stages of our lives.”
Beyoncé also shared the news on her feed, adding, “Mama, I couldn’t be prouder. My love for you goes beyond what I can say. You put your heart into this book. I’m happy for you to share some of the stories that shaped you into who you are. To know you is to love you. But please don’t spill too much Mama Tea.”
The book arrives on April 22, but both Tina and Beyoncé are encouraging fans to pre-order the title now.
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Knowles recently opened up about parenting and what she found to be the most difficult time for her as she navigated motherhood. Of course, Tina raised both Beyoncé and her sister, Solange. She also considers Kelly Rowland to be her “bonus” daughter.
“I feel like the teenage years are the most difficult, but it will get better and you get what you put in. That’s what I truly believe,” she told People at Glamour’s Women of the Year awards. “The more you put into your kids, the more love and care and support you give them, the more you get out of it.”