Parenting & Family Quote by Diana Ross

Ross is doing something celebrities rarely do without a publicist’s scaffolding: drawing a hard border. The sentence is built like a calm inventory of priorities - parent, health, order - but the real move is political in a small-p sense. She refuses the industry’s favorite story, that a star’s “real life” is just backstage content for the brand.

The intent reads as self-protection after a long career in a business that treats the body as both instrument and product. “I try” and “keep my life in order” are deliberately modest phrases, the kind people use when they’ve learned that control is provisional and constantly contested. The subtext: success doesn’t immunize you from chaos; it just gives the chaos better lighting. The “last few years” suggests a turning point - age, burnout, health scares, or simply the accumulation of compromises that start to feel like debt.

What makes the quote work is the final line’s blunt disavowal. “Those have nothing to do with show business” punctures the glamour economy’s assumption that everything is convertible: private pain into press, family into photo ops, wellness into a sponsorship. Coming from someone whose image was once inseparable from spectacle, it lands as a quiet rebuke to the machine that built her.

Contextually, it also tracks a broader shift: as celebrity culture got more invasive, the most radical flex became ordinariness. Ross isn’t selling vulnerability; she’s reclaiming the right to be unavailable.