United Kingdom, April 24 -- Tina Knowles raised her daughters "very differently".

The 71-year-old hair stylist explained Beyonce, 43, Solange, 38, and 44-year-old "bonus" child Kelly Rowland - who she helped raise from the age of 11 - always had "totally different" personalities so she knew the same approach wouldn't work for each of them and treated all three as individuals.

She told People magazine: "I always looked at my kids very differently.

"All three have totally different personalities so I couldn't lump them into one category. And I always spent time with each one of them separately so that they could feel special."

But the 'Matriarch' writer encouraged all three to follow their dreams.

She said: "My parents never said, 'Oh,...