NBA superstar Stephen Curry and his wife Ayesha Curry’s son is “at the phase of brutal, innocent honesty” — even to the point of fat-shaming his own mother. The elite basketball player’s six-year-old son, Canon, has made his mom feel embarrassed, not once, not twice, but three times. My son “will humble you real fast,” Ayesha says in an interview with Haute Living. She remarks that he runs into the kitchen, takes a good look at her, and asks, “Mom, are you having another baby? Your belly looks big.”
“No, I’m not,” is Ayesha Curry’s usual response to her son’s brutally honest question. The Sweet July Skin founder shares four children with her husband: two daughters, Riley and Ryan, as well as two sons, Canon and Caius. While having another baby isn’t out of the question for the Currys, Canon’s inquiry about his mom’s plumper appearance bamboozles her, as she claims to have lost weight.
“Actually, I just lost three pounds,” is her follow-up reply to her boy. However, she confesses that in her head, she’s like, “Dang, you got me again!” Of course, such a comment from Ayesha Curry’s own son is quite a low blow. In the past, this might have bothered her quite a bit, seeing how she grew up believing “that in order to be beautiful, she had to be done up.” Such pressure was placed upon her by both her mother and grandmother.
Ayesha eventually realized that “it’s fine to be in your sweatpants and not have anything on your face. It’s OK not to be perfect.” The skincare entrepreneur strongly believes that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and that she can still be beautiful by “being intrinsically who I am at any given moment.”
While Ayesha Curry’s son might have some brutal humor up his six-year-old sleeve, she remarks that her daughters and husband are quite the opposite. “My girls especially make me feel beautiful. They’re loaded with compliments, and that’s always such a cup filler-upper. My husband, too, always fills me with sweet nothings and compliments. He always makes me feel beautiful.”
Regardless, fans of the NBA superstar and his Ayesha Curry seemingly had a good chuckle from Canon’s fat-shaming remark to his mom. “One thing I love about kids are they are honest as hell,” says one commenter. Another’s follow-up reply is, “Exactly! Kids tell it like it is. If a kid tells you you’re ugly or your breath stinks, don’t even argue.” “Small kids don’t pull any punches. They tell it like it is,” chimes in third.
Naturally, there are multiple negative commenters as well, calling Ayesha an “attention seeker,” saying that she “constantly needs validation.” Fortunately, the haters can only attack her character, seeing how her business ventures have been quite successful. The co-founder of Eat. Learn. Play. has written bestselling cookbooks, opened up several restaurants, and owns her own cookware line, among many other things.
Having a net worth of $50 million, she does her best to remember her roots and not let the fame and fortune get to her head. After all, if she does start to get a bit smug, she’s got her family, such as her son, to humble her when need be.
