Chris Brown's Daughter Royalty is only two, but she already has great taste in music.
Nia Guzman, the two-year-old toddler's mother, sat with Latina to talk about everything from co-parenting with the rapper to Royalty's favorite activities. Guzman is a Corpus Chirsti, Texas, native with Mexican and Puerto Rican roots, and she is proudly passing that down to little Ro Ro. The film Selena has caused the toddler to have a very special place in her heart for Selena Quintanilla. "Yes, she loves it!" Guzman said to the magazine. "She doesn't say, 'Selena,' but she'll say 'Ena, Ena, Ena?'" What's her favorite song from the late singer? Of course, "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom." Because who doesn't love it?
For Guzman, it's also important to teach Royalty about Latino culture. "She knows 'hand,' 'food,' 'head.' She knows all those words in Spanish," Guzman said. "We pretty much have a Mexican household. I really don't have to do anything I normally wouldn't do for her to get it down."
For this year's Puerto Rican Festival, Royalty looked adorable in her flag dress.
Guzman recently moved to Los Angeles so that Royalty could be closer to her superstar father. We're a bit jealous of Royalty's daily routine since it includes swimming with her uncle's dogs, and a mommy-and-me Starbuck dates. And although the curly-haired cutie loves Disney's Frozen, she's also into all sorts of other toys. "She has her favorite little baby, but she likes the action figures and plays with cars. If she has a Barbie, she's putting the Barbie on the Tonka truck."
When it comes to Royalty's famous father, he's simply Daddy to her, and it's her mother's mission to keep things that way, according to Latina. "She adores him," Guzman said. "Especially when he's on the road. She always wants to call him. She's pretty attached to him. I think it's a very intimate and beautiful relationship that they have."
Co-parenting is a work in progress for these two. "I'm doing all I can to co-parent and make sure that Royalty will never see any negativity me and him have," Guzman explained. "No matter what issues we have, I will always be 100 percent for him to be there and be hands-on."
This interview will be available on the September issue of Latina, on newsstands Aug. 9.