After writing a moving message to her late mother, actress Pearl Thusi left her followers and fans in tears. On Sunday\u2014Mother’s Day\u2014the “Queen Sono” star celebrated her 35th birthday.<\/p>\n
The two celebrations left Thusi feeling emotional as she thought about the woman who gave birth to her, her mother. She shared the following message along with a photo of her and her daughters Thando and Okuhlekonke: \u201cYou know I often have to also face my birthday being on Mother\u2019s Day\u2026 My moms not in the physical anymore. I make a serious thing about celebrating my birthday lately because it would make her sad to think that I didn\u2019t anymore\u2026 \u201d She claimed that her mother cherished celebrating her birthday and that it broke her heart when she couldn’t.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo I\u2019m toasting up to my mom for as long as I make it count that she did the damn thing with me. I know I\u2019m doing a lot right now because giving up would mean she died for nothing. And we can\u2019t have that type of sacrifice going unappreciated\u201d. Before making a list of promises to her mother, she included a special birthday wish to herself.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHappy birthday to me. Coz I\u2019m living for you. And I\u2019m sorry that the day I was born is the same day I have to face that there\u2019ll never be another day where I can show you the love I still have for you. No matter how hard I could pray. So I\u2019ll love my two girls for you. Support every woman I can for you. Love myself as hard as I can for you. Even when it means hurting myself. Because every woman I can save Means I did my best to save you. When I didn\u2019t have the chance to. Because you never made it look like you needed saving. And if I don\u2019t need to prove to you How I feel about every year since losing you. Prove to myself that I miss you. That I knew and loved you. That I was worth every sacrifice you made. Why am I so silently harsh to myself. Why do I create impossible standards for myself. Why am I so hard on myself? And why do I hide it so well? Oh s*. That\u2019s exactly what you did to yourself. Love, Pearl.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After writing a moving message to her late mother, actress Pearl Thusi left her followers and fans in…\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[223,1537,1535,3,1549,61,1184,1176],"tags":[1942,1943,1941],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrosmag.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}