All About Porsha Williams' Daughter Pilar

Mar. 15, 2025

Porsha Williams and her daughter Pilar Jhena McKinley in March 2022.Photo:Pilar Jhena McKinley Instagram

Pilar Jhena McKinley Instagram

Porsha Williamsmay be best known for the near decade she has starred inTheReal Housewives of Atlanta, but since the birth of her daughter, being a mom has been her first priority.

Williams has maintained a positive co-parenting relationship with McKinley, however, and the two work to provide a solid partnership for their daughter.

“It’s going great, it really is,” Williams said onWatch What Happens Livein June 2023. “Yeah, we live near each other. Our relationship is good.”

For Williams, the focus is always on her daughter, whom she has called her main motivator in all that she does.

“Having a daughter, having a child, period, for most moms,she’s just the light of my life,” she told PEOPLE in October 2023. “She is the reason why I do everything. And for me, whenever I go out there in the world, I try to represent for her and be the best mom out there.”

From her love for ballet to how she “runs the house,” here’s everything to know about Porsha Williams’ daughter, Pilar.

She was born in March 2019

Porsha Williams with her daughter Pilar Jhena during A3C Festival & Conference at AmericasMart on October 10, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.Paras Griffin/Getty

Paras Griffin/Getty

She was born at 1:36 p.m., weighing 6 lbs., 15 oz., and measuring 20 inches long.

She added that she was recovering from her C-section as well, which was “difficult” for her to undergo.

She struggled to breastfeed at first

Porsha Williams and her daughter Pilar Jhena McKinley in January 2022.Pilar Jhena McKinley Instagram

In addition to recovering from her surgery, Williams also told PEOPLE that she struggled with the fact that her body didn’t produce enough milk to breastfeed Pilar.

“It was something I was pretty nonchalant about in the beginning. Like, ‘Okay, if I can breastfeed, that’s fine. If not, I’ll put her on formula.’ It was that simple,” Williams said. “But once she got here and you’re looking at your daughter, you want to give her the world. You want her to have everything that’s the best for her. So it was really difficult for me to come to the realization that I couldn’t pump enough milk for her.”

Pilar loves to style herself

Pilar Jhena McKinley enjoying Halloween arts & crafts in November 2023.Porsha Williams Instagram

Porsha Williams Instagram

Pilar may only be 5 years old, but she already has a strong sense of who she is and what she likes to wear. Williams told PEOPLE in October 2023 that even though she may have a vision for Pilar to wear dresses, if that’s not what the little girl wants, she won’t wear it.

“Oh my gosh, I have no control anymore,” she said of styling her daughter. “I was just saying that I am all into princess dresses and any kind of dress, and right now she is against all of that.”

“She wants to wear pants, and if I don’t hurry up and put some pants on her, then she’s like, ‘I want black pants.’ Then it goes to the [other] color, and that’s a whole other thing. So she’s very strong-minded about her fashion sense and everything at this point,” she said.

She has a strong personality

Porsha Williams and her daughter Pilar Jhena McKinley in May 2022.Pilar Jhena McKinley Instagram

In March 2023, shortly after her 4th birthday, Williams told PEOPLE that Pilar “runs the house” and is a mini-version of her.

“Sometimes I have to just pause when we’re walking upstairs, and she’s bossing me. I’m like, ‘Really? Wow, you just going to raise hell all over again. Dang,’ " she said. “We don’t even really call her PJ, a lot of times. We just call her little P, or PP, because it’s like you’re just little Porsha.”

Despite her sassiness at times, Williams said she loves having a daughter who “really shows her personality.”

“She’s strong-minded. She’s silly. I love that about her. She’s so silly. She likes to prank you and tease you,” she said.

She was part of a blended family

Porsha Williams, Pilar Jhena McKinley, and Dennis McKinley dress up for Halloween 2023.Porsha Williams Instagram

Originally, Williams was stressed about how her split with McKinley would affect Pilar, she told PEOPLE, but after she married Guobadia when Pilar was 3 ½ years old, she felt better about the expansion of her family.

Guabadia has five children of his own, with Pilar being the youngest of her new siblings — and she loved it.

“I mean, she was an only child, to boom. She’s got two sisters and three brothers overnight. And they’re so patient and loving with her,” Williams said in March 2023.

“She’s the youngest running around the house, so they have to practice patience with her,” she added.

As for her co-parenting relationship with McKinley, Williams said the two were making it work since they lived near each other.

“When you first go through some rough patches in life, it’s like, ‘Oh, Lord,’ ” she said. “You start thinking about the worst for your child, the worst situation they’re going to end up in, when in actuality, she has so much more where we are now.”

She loves ballet

Pilar Jhena McKinley in her ballet costume in August 2022.Pilar Jhena McKinley Instagram

One of Pilar’s favorite hobbies is ballet and her mom is proud to show off her skills on Instagram.

Pilar started dancing when she was 3 years old, with her mom marking the occasion of them buyingher first ballet shoeson Instagram.

In April 2023, Pilar had her first recital and both of her parents came out in support of her. Williams posted a video compilation of the special day, including her posing with Pilar and McKinley onInstagram.

source: people.com