Beyonce's nephew Julez Smith wants to "protect" his younger family members
The 20-year-old model - who is the son of Solange Knowles and her ex-husband Daniel Smith - has just started to emerge on the fashion scene but his "main goal" is just to be someone that the children around him can look up to
17 February 2025
He told TeenVogue: "It's been protector mode since everybody was born. Just trying to be a positive role model as they get older. I think that's been my main goal.
"And it's cool, they know their cousin is a model now, so it's like, all right, that might rub off on one of the kids... I'm really close to my family, so being the oldest is like, I got to set the tone, set the standard for them, make sure I'm in the same direction that I would want them to go."
Despite being the nephew of Grammy Award-winning superstar Beyonce - who is married to Jay-Z and has Blue Ivy, 13, and seven-year-old twins Rumi and Sir with him - Julez insisted that there was "nothing too much different" about his own childhood when compared to his school peers.
He said: "Going to school and kids just being like, 'Oh, your mama is your mama. Your auntie is your auntie.' So, I think from as long as I can remember, first grade [or] kindergarten, it just was what it was.
"I don't know, I let other people tell me that. I never was the one to be like, 'Oh, yeah, my folks is who my folks is.' Like I said, I'm going to school the same reason y'all going to school. Ain't nothing too much different about me."
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