International rap sensation Eminem was known for writing lyrics about his daughter Hailie during the height of his career and is believed to have written 20 songs that featured her.
However, she’s not the only one of his daughters to feature in the 50-year-old’s music, as references to ‘Lainey’ in the song lyrics refer to his eldest daughter, Alaina. The 29-year-old is the biological daughter of the late Dawn Scott, who was the twin sister of Kim Scott, Eminem’s ex-wife.
Dawn struggled with drug addiction throughout the 1990s and after Alaina was born in May 1993, Kim and the rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, took the girl in to give her a stable upbringing.
Eminem and Kim continued to raise Alaina along with their biological daughter Hailey and Kim’s youngest son Stevie despite their own on-off relationship. The couple is now divorced.
In 2016, Dawn, still battling addiction, was found dead after an apparent heroin overdose.
Alaina Scott, 29, (pictured with her fiancé Matt Moeller) lives in Michigan after being taken in as a child by Eminem and Kim Scott due to her mother’s battle with drug addiction. Now, after her mother’s death in 2016, she runs a book club, plans to go back to college after being the first person in her family to earn a degree, and plans to marry Matt.
Now Alaina lives a healthy life in Michigan with her fiancé Matt Moeller and their two sausages. She remains incredibly close to Hailie, who is often featured on her Instagram account, and is a self-confessed bookworm who runs a book club.
She has recently talked about how her aunt and uncle are also her ‘mom and dad’ and how her cousins are also her ‘sisters’.
His Instagram account also offers glimpses into his life, with the PR exec posting a photo of his father wearing an Alpha Delta Pi sorority T-shirt in college, joking that he was the “best dad ever”.
Through her social media account, she also opened up about her battles with depression and anxiety and opened up about her birth mother.
Alaina (left) recently appeared on her sister Hailie’s Just a Little Shady podcast, where the siblings reminisced about their childhoods with “strict” parents.
Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) and Kim Scott adopted Alaina in the 1990s and continued to raise her together even after their on-and-off relationship ended for good.
Alaina’s biological mother, Dawn Scott, who was the twin sister of Kim Scott, sadly died in 2016 from an apparent heroin overdose.
On Mother’s Day last year, she posted about her relationship with Dawn, writing: “As a child who lost her mother to addiction and had a strained relationship because of it, I often felt a loss before I really had to. mourn the death of my mother”.
“I used to be so angry and hurt about all of this, but as I get older, I can’t help but realize how much work it takes to be a good mom.
‘That sometimes our parents are suffering, searching and trying to find themselves too, all while trying to raise the little ones. That a lot of times they really are doing their best, even if their best isn’t that great.’
In 2018, two years after Dawn’s death and as what would have been her 43rd birthday approached, Alaina posted an old photo of her mum on Instagram, writing: ‘I’ve always missed you so much this time of year mom.’ . I can’t believe you turned 43 in 3 days.
In December 2021, Alaina revealed to her followers that she was engaged to Matt and shared sweet proposal photos.
Captioning the images, she wrote: ‘This moment. this life… yes, a hundred times more. I LOVE YOU.’
While little is known about Lainey compared to her younger sister, she did reveal details about her personal and professional life in a sit-down chat on her sister’s podcast. just a little gloomy.
As the sisters sat down to chat, Lainey revealed that she moved out of the family home when she was 18 and went to different universities, studying subjects from art to hairstyling, until finally earning her degree in communications and public relations.
On the podcast, recorded in November, Alaina announced she was about to “go back to school” to study more beauty courses and said she’s looking forward to going back to school as she approaches her 30s. She also talked about her upcoming wedding, after she recently got engaged to Matt.
It’s a yes: Rapper Eminem’s adopted daughter has confirmed her engagement to long-term partner Matt Moeller after he proposed to her on Monday.
True love: In an Instagram post shared with her followers, Alaina Marie Scott posted images of Matt on his knees as he asked for her hand in marriage.
She admitted: ‘I don’t want [Matt] helping so much with the wedding… you know how I am. I know exactly what I like, how I like it.
Revealing that she was going to be the bridesmaid at Lainey’s wedding, Hailey said that she doesn’t have as many duties to carry out in her role because Lainey has a hand in everything.
As Alaina’s wedding approaches, she revealed that she wants an “intimate” ceremony with a handpicked guest list.
Speaking about her ‘little family,’ Alaina said she was in a quandary when putting together the guest list, noting, ‘My cousins are my sisters and my aunt and uncle are like my mom and dad.
The sisters also talked about Lainey book clubwhich started during the pandemic when he ran out of other things to do.
She posts discussion threads on her forum for each book twice a month, in which her many followers comment.
During the podcast, the siblings reminisced about their childhood, where Hailie admitted that she and her friends used to spy on Alaina and tell their parents what the older sister had said.
In response, Alaina laughed, “I was always getting into trouble.”
Without naming her parents, she gave insight into how she was raised in a story about her birthday party when she was around 12 and in the sixth grade.
She said: “I was having a pool party and I wanted to wear a two-piece bathing suit and they wouldn’t let me.”
Alaina also recalled receiving a ‘C’ on a progress report at school and getting in trouble with her parents.
‘I had to get a tutor and I could only go where you [Hailie] was. She was grounded,” she recalled.
Hailie agreed that they were raised in a home where education was paramount, with Alaina being the first member of the family to go to university.
The sisters revealed that Alaina had taken roles in the student council and many extracurricular clubs while in school and excelled.