Los Angeles: Pop star Beyonce has revealed that she descended from a slave owner who had married a slave. In an interview with the Vogue, whose September Issue cover she appears on.
The 36-year-old singer said she researched about her family history after the birth of her twins – Rumi and Sir.
"I researched my ancestry recently and learned that I come from a slave owner who fell in love with and married a slave. I had to process that revelation over time. I questioned what it meant and tried to put it into perspective," Beyonce said.
"I now believe it's why God blessed me with my twins. Male and female energy was able to coexist and grow in my blood for the first time. I pray that I am able to break the generational curses in my family and that my children have less complicated," she added.
She feels that her family has a "lineage of broken male-female relationships, abuse of power, and mistrust".
"When I saw that clearly was I able to resolve those conflicts in my relationship, connecting to the past and knowing our history makes us both bruised and beautiful," she said.