Jada Pinkett Smith's touching family portrait with singer daughter Willow and the mother who battled drug addiction to raise her

PUBLISHED: 11:36 EST, 4 June 2013 | UPDATED: 11:39 EST, 4 June 2013

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With their strong bone structure and natural star power, it's clear that good looks run in the family.

Jada Pinkett Smith poses with her singer daughter Willow and her mother Adrienne Banfield Jones in a touching family portrait for Redbook magazine.

But while the trio are obviously close, their happy smiles hide a troubled past, with Adrienne a former drug addict who struggled to raise Jada as a single mother.

Touching: Jada Pinkett Smith, right, poses with daughter Willow, left, and her mother Adrienne Banfield Jones, who battled drug addiction to raise her

Adrienne was not much older than her granddaughter Willow, 12, when she gave birth to Jada while still at high school.

But overcoming her troubled background Jada found success and fame when she moved to Hollywood as a young actress.

As proof of her star power she is featured on the front cover of July's Redbook magazine.

In an interview with the magazine the 40-year-old talked about her relationship with actor husband Will, saying she would never leave him.

'What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him?' she said. ' That would make me abandon him?

Covergirl: Jada features on the front of July's Redbook

'I can’t think of one. I’m sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids – now we’ve got a problem.'

And she explained that rather than seeking out the spotlight, the couple took delight in the little things.

'We tend to find magic in the mundane. Picking Willow up from her girlfriend’s house at 9.30pm, and enjoying that ride together, then stopping at 7-Eleven to get some ice cream as a family.'

And Jada insisted that despite being a staple of the gossip magazines, she avoided reading them.

'I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been too,' she said. ' I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel.

'At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.'

Despite their previous troubles, Jada remains close to her mother.

The three recently gave a joint interview in which they discussed their past.

'I don't look at the experience that we had as bad,' Jada assured her mother, in the excerpt from the new web series Red Table Talks, from Will Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment.

Like father like sons: Getting in on the suit action was Will's oldest Trey, 20, who also complimented the pair, wearing a suave all black suit, whit an open shirt

The Smiths: Jada joined Willow and stepson Trey at the premiere of husband Will and son Jaden's new movie After Earth in New York last week

Adrienne told Willow: 'I had mommy when I was very young and then I got addicted to drugs after mommy was born.

'It was a very difficult time for us growing up with her and Jada did not have the kind of life that you have now.

'I was on drugs until your mom was like 17 or 18-years-old. That's a long time.'

Adrienne never reveals what type of drugs she used, although it should be that noted that Jada drew up in Baltimore in the 1980's at the height of the American crack cocaine epidemic.

Jada told her mother she has no resentment saying: 'I turned all of that into power. So I used those things as motivation.'

Jada graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 1989 and eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, landing parts in several television shows and feature films.