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Toni Braxton reveals all in her new memoir Unbreak My Heart. She talks about her abortion, her family religious extremism and why she blamed herself for her son’s Autism.

On sharing her story:

‘I’m looking ahead with that ultimate hope – that peering back at my past heartbreaks will ultimately lead to healing.’

On religious extremism and why she often felt God was punishing her:

‘I began connecting religion, God and church with judgment, anxiety and guilt.’

On her nose job:

‘I’d been wanting to change my nose for years – I wanted it to be less broad. But because of the conservative ideas I was raised with, I struggled with the thought of altering my body’. ‘And of course, I later got my boobies done. I’d always been shaped like a gymnast – size double A breasts and thunder thighs. In fact, I wish I would’ve had lipo on my inner thighs. I’ve always hated them’.

On linking her abortion to her son’s Autism:

‘I have sometimes wondered whether God was punishing me for the abortion I had years ago by allowing my son to have autism. Or by giving me so many health issues.’

On sisterly guilt:

‘My job is done. “Braxton Family Values” is the final punctuation mark on a sentence of guilt that has gone on for too many years—since that day in 1991 when my mother told me, “Don’t forget your sisters.’