Vanessa Williams: Through The Years

Superstar Vanessa Williams and her mother, Helen Williams, co-wrote a candid memoir called "You Have No Idea," in which the "Desperate Housewives" actress claims she was molested at age 10 by an older girl and had an abortion in high school. Shown here is an undated family portrait, with Vanessa, her brother, Chris, mother Helen and father Milton. (Courtesy of Vanessa Williams )