Here’s what Ashley’s Mom said about her daughter’s singing dream:

“Why couldn’t she just become an academic? Why are you doing this to my life? I want her to be happy, I really do,” Dr. Stanford told EurWeb.com. “But I came kicking and screaming. You know, with kids they see that people in the industry get a lot of positive attention.”

Sanford said she was diligent in explaining the nature of the music biz to AJae. “I’m an academic so I don’t know much about the entertainment industry, but it just seems to me to be a hustle. You just move from one job to the next. I tell her that even with Brad Pitt after he finishes one job he’s unemployed.”

“I tell her that I want her to maybe get some internships next summer. Work in a production office or something like that. That way, if things don’t work out in one area there’s always something else that you can do. You can offer your talent in front of the camera, but be able to offer more in other areas.”

Although her parents aren’t really feeling Ashley’s career choice 100%, she’s been sticking to her guns and continuing to pursue her dream.

Her Mom said “She’s very strong headed. How she would bring me along, and him to and I’m not sure he’s there yet, is she would say something like ‘Hey Mom, there’s a play at school today’ and she would be the lead. Or ‘Hey Mom, there’s something going on in the park’ and I’ll show up and she’s the keynote speaker or singer. I put her in a film class and she was doing all the acting. I put her in the class to learn to work the camera. She still doesn’t know how to work the cameras. That’s when I said ‘Okay, I’ll go along with this.’ I wanted her to see how hard it is to be an entertainer. It’s all day and all night. It’s really hard.”

Through it all, Karin is still very protective about her daughter and doesn’t want her to be exploited by the love affair that she had with Rev. Jesse Jackson. She said that she didn’t want