TAKING to the floor to share a cute dance with his newlywed daughter Hailie, rapper Eminem couldn’t have looked more proud. Suited and booted, he looked a million miles away from his tough persona as the Real Slim Shady. Fans of Eminem will already know that Hailie , who married her boyfriend of eight years Evan McClintock this month, is the apple of her daddy’s eye, having been name-checked in many of his hits.
But she isn’t his only child. In fact, the rap superstar is proud dad to two other kids who he and ex-wife Kim adopted, as well as bringing up his younger brother Nate, who is 14 years his junior. All of them had a tough start to life - witnessing drug addiction, death and abuse.
But thanks to the love and support of Eminem - real-name Marshall Mathers - and his ex-wife Kim, they have all gone on to build successful lives. Eminem knew all about making his own way against the odds. He was born in a trailer park in Detroit to a single mum, and was determined things would be different for his own kids.
But at first he and Kim struggled to give baby Hailie the stable upbringing he had dreamed of. The couple met when 13-year-old Kim ran away from home claiming she had been abused by her alcoholic stepdad. She moved into 15-year-old Eminem’s trailer with his mum, Debbie Nelson.
The pair had a rocky relationship and after the birth of their daughter Hailie Jade, in 1995. They lived in crime-stricken areas and struggled to get by, with Eminem working as a dishwasher i.
