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  • (singing)

  • (chattering)

  • - Sorry, I had added

  • - And a Sprite?

  • - Yeah.

  • - Okay.

  • - Uh huh, uh huh.

  • (electronic music)

  • Oh the sorrow

  • ♫ I'm down in the world

  • All alone

  • And I have

  • No home for tomorrow

  • ♫ I'm trying to make this city

  • My home

  • Oh Lord, sometimes I'm gonna talk

  • - What, what up?

  • Trying to see what?

  • What are you trying to see?

  • We're just doing a documentary.

  • A documentary!

  • I'm Claressa's little sister!

  • The boxer!

  • No I'm her little sister, fool!

  • Yeah!

  • Yeah!

  • Yeah!

  • Thank you!

  • Good lookin', fam!

  • - Welcome back everybody, thank you so much!

  • My guest tonight

  • - I am the best female boxer in the world.

  • - Grew up in Flint, Michigan.

  • - [Claressa] I have this dream.

  • - In the world.

  • - Little bit of pressure.

  • - [Voiceover] For Claressa

  • She could be the first

  • Two Olympic gold medals

  • - Oh, I love 'em.

  • - [Voiceover] Claressa.

  • - Claressa.

  • - [Voiceover] Shields.

  • - [Voiceover] Claressa Shields.

  • - [Voiceover] Claressa Shields!

  • - Claressa, truly an inspiration.

  • - [Briana] A lot of people don't even know me.

  • Like a lot of people just be like

  • "that's Claressa's sister."

  • I have no problem with that, but don't be like

  • "oh that's Claressa's sister, she need to go do

  • what her sister doing."

  • No I don't.

  • Everybody always trying to compare me to Claressa.

  • But this is my life.

  • (gentle music)

  • - [Briana] But at the same time, a lot of stuff

  • that I think is okay, it's really not okay.

  • A lot of us in Flint are stuck inside of our

  • own world because we're so used to struggling.

  • I got used to my momma throwing me out

  • at three o'clock in the morning.

  • I'm used to failing, and buying food stamps

  • just to make ends meet.

  • I'm used to not having to listen to nobody

  • because I was always kinda doing alright by myself.

  • When Claressa left me,

  • I really took that shit hard bro, I ain't had nobody.

  • But Claressa had to leave to really succeed in life.

  • I feel like Claressa meant to be on TV and I'm

  • meant to be in the streets.

  • What if Claressa would have stayed with me?

  • What if Claressa ran the streets with me?

  • We would both be fucked up out here

  • with nothing.

  • (giggling)

  • (babbling)

  • - [Briana] I never wanted my son's name to be Bradford.

  • He's been Fat Daddy since the womb.

  • Before we even found out if he was a boy or not

  • he was Fat Daddy.

  • Even if he was a, came out a girl, he was still gonna be

  • Fat Daddy.

  • (giggling)

  • (playing)

  • - Fat Daddy!

  • I'm a full time Fat Daddy mama.

  • That's what I am, that's my life now.

  • Fat Daddy come put your shoes on, come on!

  • Fat Daddy I've been thinking of you!

  • Are you thinking of me?

  • (bright music)

  • - He is so handsome with his haircut!

  • His hair grow back fast, so I might be back

  • in two weeks!

  • Say "We out here!"

  • (babbling)

  • - Come here, look at me!

  • Ooh, handsome!

  • (laughing)

  • You fat as hell.

  • (babbling)

  • - I wanted to get pregnant.

  • (silly noises)

  • - I wanted to have a baby because I felt

  • abandoned by everybody.

  • Everybody chose when they want to care

  • and love me or whatever.

  • So I said, if I have my own baby,

  • all he gonna want is me.

  • All he gonna need is me.

  • And all he gonna love is me, and he gonna

  • keep on loving me till the day he die.

  • He ain't gonna never stop, I wanted my own baby.

  • (babbling)

  • - Whatever, we going to the zoo!

  • (squealing)

  • - We going to the mother fuckin' zoo!

  • (babbling)

  • (electronic music)

  • - [Briana] Claressa is really living her life already.

  • She got her shit together, now I gotta get

  • my shit together.

  • (electronic music)

  • - [Briana] If I actually wanna do something

  • with my life, I'm capable of doing that.

  • I can't let my situation define who I am.

  • I can't let that make me.

  • I'm a statistic.

  • But that's not all I am, I'm more than that.

  • (electronic music)

(singing)

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