As told to and Photography by Shukura Wells, 28, was a mortgage credit underwriter and is launching a business supporting Black-owned cosmetics brands.
She lives in Detroit with her daughter, Zendaya, age four, her boyfriend, Dazz, and their son, Dakari Gold, three months. She had no paid leave.To return to the main paid leave article, .I had my son on June 25 this year.
And a few weeks before I gave birth, I took severance from my job. I was working for a mortgage company in Detroit, but the housing market has been slow and our department was really affected.I thought it would be okay because the money I was being paid in severance would take me through to November, my health care was still covered for six months, and I thought it would give me time to put into the beauty business I started recently.
But I think I thought I was superwoman, and that even while heavily pregnant and in the early days postpartum, I would be able to do what I needed to with my website: reaching out to businesses, pitching to carry their products on my site, promoting everything.
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