Karreuche, who is half Vietnamese and half Black, has been open about somewhat struggling with her mixed-race identity during her childhood. “I was always somewhere in the middle.

Her son Kuhvari X’Xivion Simmons-Smith, is three quarters Black and one quarter white while her daughter, Malaïa Louwella Smith, is half Black and half Puerto Rican, she told Newsweek.

Her son Kuhvari X’Xivion Simmons-Smith, is three quarters Black and one quarter white while her daughter, Malaïa Louwella Smith, is half Black and half Puerto Rican, she told Newsweek.