Beyoncé is showing her mother Tina Knowles some love.
On Weds., May 1, the “16 Carriages” performer shared an Instagram post congratulating Knowles after she made the New York Times bestseller list for her memoir Matriarch.
“The Mama T was that good?? Ha. You deserve it, I’m so proud!” Beyoncé, 43, captioned the post, alongside an image of the book and the text “MATRIARCH is officially a New York Times Bestseller.”
In an interview with PEOPLE for the World’s Most Beautiful issue, Knowles, 71, revealed her initial hesitations to even write a book.
“I didn’t want to write a book because I thought [people] only want to know all my kids’ business,” she said. “They’re not going to be interested in me.”
However, Knowles realized she had “lived this incredible life.”
“You really don’t realize it until you start writing everything down,” she said.
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Tina Knowles and Beyoncé
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According to Knowles, she began writing down her story years before her book came out.
“I started, probably about 12 years ago, just recording my story, which I think everyone should do, for my great grandchildren, because for some reason, I just started thinking about the fact that I never met my grandparents and the history that I gathered for my mom,” she said of her late mother Agnes Buyincé (their surnames differ due to a hospital clerical error when Knowles was born.)
Knowles admitted that she wished she “would have investigated more.”
At first, the book wasn’t going to be a memoir.
“I was going to do a behind-the-scenes type thing with Destiny’s Child and just with the entertainment industry,” she said.
But as Knowles began telling her story and listening back to what she had recorded, she pivoted to a memoir.
“I was like, it’s time to do a memoir, because I want to leave that legacy for my kids. But I also want to encourage young people and older people to go and record their parents and get those stories,” she said.
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‘Matriarch’ cover
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Knowles described her story as a “rollercoaster.”
“It’s been amazing, an amazing ride. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” she said.
Matriarch is available now wherever books are sold.
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