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Willow Smith felt 'a lot of pressure' to 'do right by' her parents.
The 20-year-old singer and actress is the daughter of stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, and after raising to fame herself with her hit single Whip My Hair when she was just 10, Willow has now admitted she felt pressure to be as loved by the public as her parents.
'I always just wanted to do right by my parents,' Willow told host Zane Lowe during an interview on Apple Music 1.
High expectations: Willow Smith said she felt 'a lot of pressure' to 'do right by' her parents. Seen in 2020
She continued, 'And do right by the beauty that they have put in the world and continue to uplift that beauty and to uphold that beauty. I felt a lot of pressure.'
Now that she's an adult, Willow has forged her own path and no longer feels as though she needs to be compared to her parents.
She said, 'Because I'm not a minor anymore, I'm finding the freedom to - I can put that beauty in the world.
'I can uphold that energy. And so, I'm just figuring that out in all of these
