On The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Kenya Moore continues to struggle, to come to grips with her feelings of abandonment. Her parents — Patricia Moore and Ronald Grant — were just 16-years-old when Kenya was conceived. When Patricia talked about giving Kenya up for adoption, Ronald asked his mother Doris Grant to raise Kenya, which she did. But it wasn’t easy.
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Kenya has always been very open about her non-existent relationship with her mother. After winning the title of Miss USA in 1993, Moore said about her mother, “I can honestly say I don’t love her.” When reached for comment at that time, Patricia Moore, a special education teacher in Detroit, told People magazine: “I’m a very private person,” she says. “It doesn’t matter how dim Kenya portrays me, because I know exactly who I am.” Don’t hold your breath for Patricia Moore to appear on RHOA but Kenya’s father Ronald has — and he will reappear in Season 8. When Kenya cries to him, “I needed you when I was a teenager. I needed my dad,” he replies, “We do the best we can with the cards we’re dealt.” Real Housewives of Atlanta airs Sundays at 8pm on Bravo.
