View gallery Image Credit: Getty Images Queen Latifah is best known for her musical and acting talent and has built quite a successful professional career over the years, but it turns out she's also a doting mother. The "U.N.I.T.Y." crooner has one child, a son, that she has been raising in her private life. In addition to being a parent to her son, she previously stepped up into the role of a caregiver to her mom, Rita Owens, after she was diagnosed with a heart condition in 2005.