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Megan Thee Stallion, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown And More Join Council To Elevate Media Portrayals Of Caregiving

"Caregiving is one of the most underappreciated jobs," said Megan Thee Stallion of why she hopes to amplify the depiction of caregivers in film and television
Megan Thee Stallion, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown And More Join Council To Elevate Media Portrayals Of Caregiving
By Rivea Ruff · Updated March 16, 2023

Megan Thee Stallion, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown, Yves Mathieu Eastand, and more have joined a council dedicated to highlighting and boosting portrayals of caregiving in film and television.

Partnering with Caring Across Generations, these stars and others like Bradley Cooper, Seth Rogen, and Richard Lui among others, each with a personal lived connection to caregiving, have joined together to form the Creative Care Council.

With the goal of changing how society views and values caregivers, the Council is focused on providing recommendations and feedback with hopes of amplifying the depiction of caregiving on screen.

Megan Thee Stallion, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown And More Join Council To Elevate Media Portrayals Of Caregiving
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 12: Megan Thee Stallion attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

“Caregiving has played a major role in my life,” Megan Thee Stallion said in a statement to Variety. “When I was growing up, I watched my grandmother care for my great-grandmother, and she did it with love, strength, and patience.”

“As a society, we have to support and celebrate our care workers more because caregiving is one of the most underappreciated jobs. My hope is that we can create better environments where people receiving care can feel safe and secure and at home while care workers feel supported and empowered. All families should have access to high-quality resources to provide care for those in need.”

Megan Thee Stallion, Brandee Evans, Yvette Nicole Brown And More Join Council To Elevate Media Portrayals Of Caregiving
US actress Brandee Evans arrives for the 16th Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza, in Los Angeles, California, on March 9, 2023. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Evans has long been open about her personal caregiving journey, serving as her mother’s primary care provider in the wake of a fall that rendered her in need of extensive assistance.

“When you become a caregiver, you don’t realize the different medical equipment you need, the different help you need, so I had to do all of that research on the fly,” she revealed in a video introducing the Caring Across Generations Creative Care Council. For Evans, it’s important that care gets more of a spotlight so people will not only have a clearer understanding of what caregiving entails, but realize the support available and that they are not alone.

“It is so important that I make care more visible because I don’t want anyone to go through what I went through because I tried to take on too much.”

Article continues after video.

Learn more about the Creative Care Council and its initiatives in the video above.

TOPICS:  Brandee Evans caregiving hollywood Megan Thee Stallion Yvette Nicole Brown
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