Kimora Lee Simmons is opening up about the highs and lows of being a single parent.
The mother of five, 48, recently hosted an intimate, invite-only brunch to support Smile Train, a nonprofit organization that provides cleft palate treatments for children across the globe, where she chatted with PEOPLE about her role as a mom.
“I’m a single mom of five kids and I know how hard it can be and I don’t want to start crying, but it’s Mother’s Day, I know how that feels like to raise your kids and to get up every day and only care about them,” Simmons exclusively tells PEOPLE.
“And it doesn’t matter, if you’re rich and famous or you’re this thing or this singer, that singer, at the end of the day, you’re a mom or you’re a cousin, you’re an auntie, you’re a family member, you’re a community person, a caregiver, you’re just there …