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Vanessa Williams will pen a book for women with her mother Helen Williams. The motivational book will focus on family, fear, success and loss.

This past decade, Vanessa has regrouped and reinvented herself as a Hollywood power player. Taking risks has been her motto to success.

“I was not only seen as a beauty queen, but a scandalized beauty queen.” So coming in the door to get any kind of fair judgment was impossible because I came with so much baggage. My whole life has been about getting respect. “Being a risk taker has led to opportunities that, if I were fearful, would have prevented me from being where I am today.”

Watch Vanessa’s Ebony behind the scenes photo shoot.