Shanti Kyra Sommers [née McCarthy] (34) is Leilani’s mom and best friends with Kira’s mom, despite being a decade younger than Kira’s mom. She is a proud mother to her daughters. She is also a maternal granddaughter of Corinna Berniece DuPoint. She has met Jojo DuPoint at family reunions but because she is twice Jojo’s age and on the other side of Corinna’s family, they haven’t seen each other outside reunions. She is a proud mother of Lulu, Jess, Kirby, and Leilani. She is a proud member in the Black community, being of Egyptian and Nigerian descent but also of Hawaiian descent, giving Leilani her name from her Hawaiian culture.
She has been married to her wife for 8 years. Unlike Kira’s mom, their children are closer together in age and all planned, although the couple has decided Leilani is their last child and Leilani was the only C-section of either pregnancies. Shanti was the one who gave birth to Leilani and claims Leilani and Kira were coincidentally born on the same day, she secretly planned to get the C-section on the same day and her wife has a feeling this was planned as well. Lulu and Jess are already in school and Shanti cannot be more proud of them and the great notes teachers have sent about having them as students in the class. Kirby is in daycare.