Alex Martin Dean, who had her first daughter at fifteen, went on to have two more children, making her a mother of three. She also became, unexpectedly, a grandmother at a relatively young age. With her children, Amara Skye, Mason, and Jerzey Dean, Martin Dean experiences the joys and challenges of raising a family.
Speaking about becoming a great-grandmother, Whoopi Goldberg humorously recounted the experience on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” saying, “I was a grandmother kinda young … and now I’m a great-grandmother,” then adding, “I had just gotten into the groove … and then this girl came and said she and her man were having a baby and I wanted to wring her neck.” She also commented on Martin Dean’s experience becoming a first-time grandmother, saying, “My daughter’s like, ‘Ugh, I’m gonna be a grandmother!’” to which Goldberg had a unique response: “I let her go through all of that, and I whispered in her ear, ‘I got no sympathy for you. You made me a grandmother when I was 33, b****.”
Despite Goldberg’s comedic admonition of her daughter, she also said on the “Rachael Ray Show” that Martin Dean “raised … very strange and wonderful children.” Part of the reason that Martin Dean and Goldberg started the reality show “According to Alex” in 2015 was to provide a sort of launchpad for Martin Dean’s children as they explore different careers.
