According to Vera Wang, her mother was always very controlling. Additionally, in an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Wang said her mother was a "tiger mom," while Wang herself tends to be "a bit more hippie." But Wang also said, despite her mother's tiger mom tendencies, she always encouraged her to be her authentic self — even if she was a bit too involved at times.
Wang remembers the pressure to be perfect and live up to her mother's expectations, especially while in college and simultaneously training for the Olympics. She ended up exhausting herself while trying to do both, and didn't truly succeed at either.
That was a big life lesson for Wang, who tries to be a more hands-off parent to her daughters. "I don't live through my kids," she explained. "But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared." And even though neither Cecelia or Josephine Becker wants to follow in Wang's fashion-forward footsteps, as she told Seventeen, she's just happy that they're finding their path in life.
