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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's
daughter was found unconscious in a bathtub in her home -- and taken to a
hospital where she is now breathing ... TMZ has learned.
Bobbi Kristina Brown's husband Nick Gordon
and a friend found her in the tub ... according to police in Roswell,
GA. We're told her husband and friend immediately started CPR on her ...
until police and paramedics arrived.
We're told police took over life-saving measures on the scene -- and then she was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Doctors have now stabilized her breathing, and we're told she is in ICU.
Still unclear why Bobbi fell unconscious. We're told a friend made the call to 911 from Bobbi's house.
The circumstances are especially eerie -- Whitney died in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton on February 11 ... three years ago.
Johannesburg - Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere died in a car accident on Saturday morning, according to reports.
SABC's SAfm News reported that Mhere was killed in the early hours of the morning.
The Sunday Tribune also reported that Mhere was killed.
Eight
people died in the crash on the N3 North near the Marlboro offramp,
ANN7 reported. Some victims have been airlifted from the scene.
According to his profile on the Top Billing website,
Mhere was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Johannesburg as a baby. He
attended Randpark High School and studied at the University of
Johannesburg. He won the Top Billing Presenter Search in 2010.
More to follow.
Seriously when I 1st heard Fancy I thought that was the Da Brat rapping and Iggy sounds like Da Brat. So I wonder if Da Brat had put out that song How popular would it have been?
Following a heated Twitter exchange with Azealia Banks and being schooled on Hip Hop by Q-Tip, Iggy Azalea is back in headlines once again.
This
time the Australian-born rapper is responding to recent comments by
fellow rapper-actress Eve and singer Jill Scott, who recently shared
their thoughts on Azalea, her “blaccent” and how it may all contribute
to cultural appropriation during an appearance last week on “Sway In The Morning.”
“She’s representing a group of girls right now as well. And yeah, I
think people right now are too quick to give too many accolades to new
people,” Eve admitted to show host Sway Calloway. “That’s the one thing I
just can’t stand. Let her do her thing. It’s not my cup of tea but
she’s representing for somebody. She’s doing her thing. What are you
gonna do?”
Jill Scott added; “It’s a little challenging for me,
because I come from the era that she pulled from…To me it’s a mixture of
Da Brat and Eve, the way that it sounds. That’s what it sounds like to
me…it [the tone of her voice] also sounds like a big bite to me. The
blaccent.” Eve continued Scott’s thoughts. “She’s from a different
place, and it would be dope to hear with her swag.”
As expected, Iggy took to her personal Twitter account yesterday to respond to the Grammy Award-winning pair’s thoughts.
Three days after Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao reportedly met privately in Miami hotel room
to hash out details of their proposed May 2 fight, Top Rank promoter
Bob Arum is now saying he expects a formal agreement to be finalized in
“the next couple days.”
“Everybody is doing the right thing,” Arum told The New York Post
on Friday. “We’re looking to complete the paperwork. Everything is
moving in the right direction. Hopefully, the next couple of days it
will get done.”
Arum, who has had an antagonistic relationship
with Mayweather throughout the years, described himself as “optimistic”
and added, “The issues are being narrowed down to extraordinarily small
points.”
One of the biggest issues that stood in the way of the proposed May 2
fight were the broadcast rights. Mayweather is under contract with
CBS/Showtime, while Pacquiao works with Time Warner/HBO. But according
to the New York Post, both networks have said they would not oppose the
fight, wherever it landed on the pay-per-view dial.
In fact, there’s a very good chance it would be available on both. ESPN
points out a joint PPV telecast was successfully negotiated once before
in 2002 when heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson faced each other
for the title.
Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight was involved in a
hit-and-run in Compton, Calif., that left one man dead and another
injured on Thursday.
Knight’s attorney, James E. Blatt, confirmed to EW that Knight ran
over two bystanders when he tried to escape an altercation with two
other men on the set of a film project where Dr. Dre and Ice Cube were
present.
Blatt confirmed that the victim is TV actor Terry Carter (of McCloud and the original Battlestar Galactica) and was a close friend of Knight’s. The second victim, whom Blatt identified asCle Sloan, is in unknown condition, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
The incident is still under investigation by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
Court documents have revealed new details about the prostitution
arrest of basketball analyst and former NBA player Greg Anthony in
Washington.
Court documents describe the
conversation Anthony had with an undercover officer before his arrest
Jan. 16 at a Washington hotel. The documents show the undercover officer
told Anthony that intercourse would cost $80. Asked if he wanted her to
"dress up," he responded "oh yeah," the court documents say.
The documents also explain more about how
Anthony wound up in room 805 of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel. Anthony
responded to an escort ad authorities placed in the escort section of
the classifieds website Backpage.com, a court document says.
Anthony, 47, was suspended by CBS and Turner Sports following his arrest.
There is a story that Elijah Muhammad would often tell about a mule
that was chained to a tree for many, many years. Finally, when the mule
was unchained, he still didn't leave the tree's side. You may already
know where I'm going with this: When I was a young record guy, I would
go to Hawaii and hang with the chairmen of various media companies
(mostly music). Sure, the hotel suites were a bit expensive, but there I
was, hanging with some of the most exciting people in the entertainment
business (many of them have now become some of my longest friendships).
Even though we are talking over 30 years ago, I never got to see a sign
that said "Whites Only" -- real or imagined. The fact is that good
business relationships in communications businesses are mostly built
outside the shared workspace. If you want to make lasting connections,
you too will have to go outside of your comfort zone and make new
friends.
I guess about 29 years ago -- before I could even afford
it (and for the record, this place is still expensive to me!) -- I would
go to St. Barth's during the holidays, because I knew that was where a
lot of the record, fashion and film executives would vacation. If that
was where a lot of the successful people with common interests were
hanging out, I was going to crash that party -- and eventually throw the
party. (The last 17 years I have thrown the best party on the island.)
Many of them I got to know personally before they even knew what kind of
businesses I was trying to create. In fact, I didn't always know
either! Who would have thought I would meet David Rosenberg and we would
build a multi-hundred-million-dollar-valued financial-services company?
Many of these friendships have been some of the most rewarding
relationships in my lifetime. I have so many examples of my success
through honest integration that it would take a huge manuscript to go
into all of them here, but I will provide a few examples: The truth is
that Aerosmith didn't seek out Run-DMC; we went to them. It was a white
kid from NYU, Rick Rubin, who later became the co-founder of Def Jam,
who saw the potential of the Beastie Boys. I built clothing companies
with Syrian Jews from Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn. I had at least 20
different licenses with 20 different families. I couldn't guess how many
Shabbat dinners I had. I got so close to that community that I almost
moved to Ocean Parkway. (That is a joke, kind of; Kimora was having so
much fun and making so much money with Baby Phat that she actually was
looking at houses there.) I then introduced these friends to Jay Z and
Nelly. We went on to build, conservatively speaking, over $8 billion in
business.
The Adventures of IONE RUCKER Love Thy Sister... part 2 By Belinda Trotter James
We spoke with all three
sister from WE TV’s reality show, “Love Thy Sister” in part one of a four part
interview last week. This week it’s
all about IONE. Ione is the younger
sister of the three on the show.
She is a fun loving, open-minded mother of three small children, Kathryn,
AJ and Rucker with her ex-husband, Antawn Jamison, ex-NBA player. No questions were off limit to me
however, I had to consider that they were respected mothers and business women
in their communities. Well, to my
surprise I was looking at E!’s television series called The Soup with host, Joel
McHale which gives a recap of events or funny clips of the week’s television
shows. One of the clips was Ms.
Ione in the bathroom using a vibrator and her sister walked in on her!!! Wow! The huge walk-in shower had no
doors. The camera guy saw
everything and The Soup TV show loved it.
Ione had some ‘explaining’ to do…
We all had a good laugh
and Ione explained, “Girl you know I was recently divorced and I haven't had sex
in over two years. I have three small children and I'm very involved with
them. We are always busy and I
hadn't gotten back into the dating scene yet so I did the safe and responsible
thing to do to release myself when I need to in the privacy of my own bedroom,
my own shower, my own home; it's very responsible of me. I don’t date a lot
and I felt the need to be focused on my children because it was a difficult time
for me and my children. So, I just
use a vibrator and I feel it's very liberating for women. Men have been
masturbating for years and its okay, but when a woman does it, that’s the clip
you see on The Soup. That's fine and it's all good because I signed up for this.
I thought it would be very empowering to show women that you don’t always need a
man. I didn't need a man at the time so I used a sex toy. My parents’ generation
thinks it’s just so out of this world crazy, but our younger generation have
been doing it for years. So I just think it's something that I'm okay with. I'm
not ashamed that I used a vibrator and I think it's a very responsible thing to
do as a mother with small children to release my stress and my energy when I
need to. We all laughed and said, ‘Okay, we got it’. Ione went on to say, “When
they saw me doing that, I felt like we are on a women's network, it's women's
entertainment and I felt like it was empowering for me to show that on
TV.”
Ruby added, “I think a lot of times women think that we just have to
have a man and a lot of it is because of loneliness and our sex drive. I think
like Ione said it's empowering to show women that you can do that on your own
too and you don't need a man to do that with and you can release yourself by
yourself.” Ellen chimed in to say, “When you have young kids you don't want all
types of men in and out of your home either and that was very responsible of
Ione to show that she's not going to have all types of men around her
children.”
Well, we know how Ione takes care of herself physically, but
how does she deal mentally with being without her husband to help run a
household with three small children and try to put some type of normalcy in her
own social life as a young eligible woman? Ione says, "It was very hard at first
mentally, but once again I leaned a lot on my family. I am so thankful and
blessed I have my sisters around me as my support system. Ellen lives right in
the same neighborhood, Ruby lives up the street and I just leaned on my family
during that time. And of course my
faith in God; I just prayed and I got through it. It was very hard; I felt like
I was in a state of depression for probably a year because I had three small
kids; my baby was under two years old so it was very hard. I’m sure a lot of people who can relate
that have been through divorce known that life goes on after a divorce and you
can find your groove again and life can be fulfilling after a divorce.”
“It was just hard for me
to start dating again and bringing people around my children because my
ex-husband is a great father and I don't really like saying that I'm a single
mother because my ex-husband is very much a part of my kids life which I am
really grateful for. A huge
shout out for that because some men just walk away from their wife and their
children; he never did that. He has always been a huge part of my kids’ life and
even my nieces and nephews. He baby sits all my nieces and nephews so as a black
man I just want to give him a shout out for that. He could have stepped away from this
entire family, but he never did."
Her sisters also agreed and gave Antawn Jamison a big shout out along
with lots of love. “He is still uncle Antawn to all the kids”, says
Ruby.
It's wonderful to find your knight in shining armor however, when
it starts to get a little rusty, you have to start all over to find another
knight. It can be a little scary and intimidating to start dating again. On the next few episodes of Love Thy
Sister you will see Ione tackle the dating scene once again. "You will see me
dating all types of men; younger men and older men", begins Ione. “I was like…hmmm… you know what… I got
married young in my early 20s. I'm just going to go out to see what's out there.
After I stopped being depressed, I started to date and date and date. I started
dating all types of men again.” Ellen told Ione not to give everything
away so Ione said, “Just tune in and see what happens.” As we see Ione
start to get her confidence back to go on a quest to find love again, will there
be room in her heart to marry again? Ione replies, "You know possibly, but right
now my main focus is to raise my children.
My number one focus is to raise healthy, happy, successful children. I’m
not focused on getting married again at this point in my life.”
Don’t feel sorry for Ione. She has a lot to keep her busy in this
chapter of her life. One of the
ways she gives back to the community is by making education a priority in the
lives of children. She started The
Rucker Education Fund which gives out scholarships. “The Rucker Education Fund is something
we started about three years ago,” explains Ione. Both of our grandparents were
educators in Lancaster
South Carolina for many years. Our grandfather was the superintendent
for all the black schools in Lancaster and a
school was named after him, the A R Rucker Middle School in our hometown of
Lancaster. Since I have the education background, I
felt the need to honor them. I majored in elementary education at Spellman College and went on to Converse College to get my Masters in elementary
education. I felt that there was a need for me to do it because I have that
background. We give out scholarships to deserving students from Lancaster, South
Carolina who went through A R Rucker Middle School. We
gave out our first two scholarships last year and it's just a great cause to
give back to the community of Lancaster. We have an annual fundraiser fashion
show every year. The fundraiser has
really been huge here in Charlotte and we just
hope that it only grows to become something even bigger so that we can help more
kids out of Lancaster."
Check out Ione on Twitter to tell her
what you thought of her dates. The
next sister I will chat with is Ellen Rucker to see how the next chapter in her
life is shaping up and if Ruby is correct in her observation that Ellen’s
boyfriend, Bakari is simply not into her enough to put a ring on it. Stay tuned and watch the show on
Thursdays. Visit the sister’s website at http://www.TheRuckerSisters.com
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Fans of BET’s scripted show Being Mary Jane will have to wait a little longer for their show to return. BET announced that Season 2 the popular show starring Gabrielle Union as Mary Jane Paul, won’t return to the airways until Tuesday, February 3rd.
The good news is that this season has been upped from 8 to 12 1 hour episodes with a season finale on April 21st.
Creator Mara Brock Akil and her husband director Salim Akil are back
as the behind-the-scenes creative team. Earlier this year, BET announced
that The Game, also created by Akil would be finishing up its run.
Via the press release, the second season of Being Mary Jane
will find Mary Jane once again juggling more than she can handle. On
the home front, while both of her brothers seem to be getting their
lives on the right track, her mother and niece are at war, causing
everyone in the family to choose sides.
"POWER" OR "EMPIRE They both are great shows and suggest that everyone give Power a shot because it was out 1st and many may not have known about the show. Many reasons due to some people cable packages. As we all know that Empire is on Fox and Power is on Starz and due to that matter Power will be lacking many viewers who would have caught this great show if you didn't have to decide which cable package you want. Well my choice was to ether have HBO or Starz included in my cable package, but here the catch the price to include HBO was crazy and really the only thing I would be missing is HBO Boxing. So I decided STARZ because they do have great programs such a Power. So for those who do have Starz make sure to catch the 2nd Season of POWER.
Starz has released the trailer to Season 2 of its hit show, ‘Power,’ starring Omari
Hardwick, Naturi Naughton, Lela Loren, Joseph Sikora, Curtis “50 Cent”
Jackson, Andy Bean, Sinqua Walls, Adam Huss, Luis Antonio Ramos, La La
Anthony, J.R. Ramirez, Debbi Morgan, Shane Johnson, and Enrique Murciano.
From executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and show creator
Courtney Kemp Agboh (“The Good Wife”),“Power” returns this summer with a
10-episode second season.
In this runaway hit novel, three best friends
come together for their sorority sister's glitzy wedding in Atlanta and
make a vow to get married within one year. As they embark on their
search to find their soul mates, they navigate the full-contact sport
known as being a SSBFLA (successful, single, black, female in L.A.) and
negotiate the shark-infested waters of making a name for themselves
professionally in Hollywood.
Can Trista, the hyper-driven
celebrity agent, find the time to schedule a meaningful romance? Will
Amaya, the sexy starlet, convince the married hip hop-label exec she has
been seeing to leave his wife, or will the NBA star steal her heart in
the final seconds? After undergoing a complete makeover, will Vivian,
the jaded gossip columnist, win back the father of her child?
As seductive as it is empowering, The Vow
is a page-turner that will keep you cheering for these women as they
discover that their desire to find a husband isn't as important as
finding themselves.
Everybody want more of #withthisring WITH THIS RING and the ball to make this a series is in the hands of Lifetime T.V So it would be great to hit up their twitter page https://twitter.com/lifetimetv and let them know how great this movie was.
Visit Who's That Lady Entertainment http;//www.whosthatladyent.com featuring the Phenomenal Women in Entertainment, Business, Sports and Politics Exclusive Interview plus more JUST THE FACTS! NO GOSSIP
All I can say is thank you ladies as we all know it's not what goes
on behind the scene but what is projected on the screen and that was
refreshing to see our Phenomenal Women work together and bring us all
such a wonderful movie. This movie left me with I'm happy with this
ending, or maybe I want to see more or a T.V Series. But to be honest it
didn't leave me stress out like most do. When you take women with
positive vibes and great creativity this is what we get. A MASTERPIECE.
The whole cast did a great job into bringing a refreshing look to my T.V But you have to look at the wonderful women behind the scene Written and directed by Nzingha Stewart https://twitter.com/zingbling ("Pretty Little Liars," "The
Fosters"), "With This Ring" is produced by Sony Pictures Television.
Executive producers are Tracey E. Edmonds https://twitter.com/Traceyeedmonds ("Jumping the Broom") through
her Edmonds Entertainment Group, Gabrielle Union https://twitter.com/itsgabrielleu ("Top Five," "Being
Mary Jane") in her first producing role and Sheila Ducksworth https://twitter.com/SheilaDucks ("Why We
Laugh: Funny Women," "Soul Food"). Casting is by Tracy “Twinkie” Byrd https://twitter.com/Twinkie_Byrd
("Fruitvale Station")
Regina Hall earn her stripes in WITH THIS RING and what made me love
her roles is her funny facial expressions, her willing to act crazy as
we see in Real Husbands Of Hollywood. Regina Hall is one of those
actress if given the chance I will shines. And it took a nation of
Phenomenal Women, our sisters to work together and let each other talent
rise. Hollywood need to open up the pocketbook and stop making what you
think we wanna see, but what we know what we need to see. More
Positive, Fun, Happy and Friendly Movies as to the Negative roles that
is always thrown at our actress to play. THANK YOU TO ALL THE LADIES THAT MADE THIS HAPPEN Follow Regina Hall on twitter https://twitter.com/MoreReginaHall
Visit Who's That Lady Entertainment http;//www.whosthatladyent.com featuring the Phenomenal Women in Entertainment, Business, Sports and Politics Exclusive Interview plus more JUST THE FACTS! NO GOSSIP
All I can say is thank you ladies as we all know it's not what goes on behind the scene but what is projected on the screen and that was refreshing to see our Phenomenal Women work together and bring us all such a wonderful movie. This movie left me with I'm happy with this ending, or maybe I want to see more or a T.V Series. But to be honest it didn't leave me stress out like most do. When you take women with positive vibes and great creativity this is what we get. A MASTERPIECE.
The whole cast did a great job into bringing a refreshing look to my T.V But you have to look at the wonderful women behind the scene Written and directed by Nzingha Stewart https://twitter.com/zingbling ("Pretty Little Liars," "The
Fosters"), "With This Ring" is produced by Sony Pictures Television.
Executive producers are Tracey E. Edmonds https://twitter.com/Traceyeedmonds ("Jumping the Broom") through
her Edmonds Entertainment Group, Gabrielle Union https://twitter.com/itsgabrielleu ("Top Five," "Being
Mary Jane") in her first producing role and Sheila Ducksworth https://twitter.com/SheilaDucks ("Why We
Laugh: Funny Women," "Soul Food"). Casting is by Tracy “Twinkie” Byrd https://twitter.com/Twinkie_Byrd
("Fruitvale Station")
ACTRESS REGINA HALL SHINES IN WITH THIS RING
Regina Hall earn her stripes in WITH THIS RING and what made me love her roles is her funny facial expressions, her willing to act crazy as we see in Real Husbands Of Hollywood. Regina Hall is one of those actress if given the chance I will shines. And it took a nation of Phenomenal Women, our sisters to work together and let each other talent rise. Hollywood need to open up the pocketbook and stop making what you think we wanna see, but what we know what we need to see. More Positive, Fun, Happy and Friendly Movies as to the Negative roles that is always thrown at our actress to play. THANK YOU TO ALL THE LADIES THAT MADE THIS HAPPEN Follow Regina Hall on twitter https://twitter.com/MoreReginaHall
GET YOUR COPY OF VOW THE BOOK THAT GAVE US WITH THIS RING
In this runaway hit novel, three best friends
come together for their sorority sister's glitzy wedding in Atlanta and
make a vow to get married within one year. As they embark on their
search to find their soul mates, they navigate the full-contact sport
known as being a SSBFLA (successful, single, black, female in L.A.) and
negotiate the shark-infested waters of making a name for themselves
professionally in Hollywood.
Can Trista, the hyper-driven
celebrity agent, find the time to schedule a meaningful romance? Will
Amaya, the sexy starlet, convince the married hip hop-label exec she has
been seeing to leave his wife, or will the NBA star steal her heart in
the final seconds? After undergoing a complete makeover, will Vivian,
the jaded gossip columnist, win back the father of her child?
As seductive as it is empowering, The Vow
is a page-turner that will keep you cheering for these women as they
discover that their desire to find a husband isn't as important as
finding themselves.
R&B singer, and Grammy winner, Mya, is currently being slandered and judged heavily on twitter and IG for dancing and performing on stage at G5IVE,
last night in Miami for “Divas Friday.”But truth to the facts is that she was performing at this strip club last night and she decided to do some sexy dance moves to entertain the crowd as all female entertainers do these days and NOW SHE A STRIPPER. Here is the flyer Live Performance. Now we all know that Mya always wore sexy outfits and into today's music industry the less the better. RIGHT? But if she had done the same dance moves in a concert setting would she have been called a stripper?
What is sad what many will do to get HITS for their blogsites, websites or whatever they want to call it. And i say that is degrading to Mya as a performer whereas she performed at the strip club and gave a show. Yes their were strippers on stage and in 2015 you get what you ask for. Mya has been on tour all over the world performing and when a woman of color do something you may never expected you got caught off guard and took the time out to post a negative post instead of what really happened. So many read the incorrect post looking to see if she was STRIPPING and was surprise many had lied or misrepresented what was posted on the internet which we all know negative news travel faster then positive news. Follow MYA on twitter https://twitter.com/MISSMYA
THIS IS WHAT MYA DOES FOR A LIVING! SHE A SINGER & PERFORMER
THE ONLY REASON WE NOT POSTING THE VIDEOS IS BECAUSE WE NOT GIVING ANYONE HITS AND THE VIDEO MISREPRESENTED MYA!
THE TRUTH IS WHAT COUNTS! NOT GOSSIP AND FALSE INFORMATION! visit Who's That Lady Entertainment The website for the Phenomenal Women. JUST THE FACTS! NO GOSSIP http://www.whosthatladyent.com
The Chicago Cubs' beloved "Mr. Cub," Ernie Banks, has died at 83, the club confirmed.
"Words cannot express how important Ernie Banks will always be to the
Chicago Cubs, the city of Chicago and Major League Baseball. He was one
of the greatest players of all time," Tom Ricketts, chairman of the
Cubs, said in a statement released by the team. "He was a pioneer in the
major leagues. And more importantly, he was the warmest and most
sincere person I've ever known.
"Approachable, ever optimistic and kind hearted, Ernie Banks is and
always will be Mr. Cub. My family and I grieve the loss of such a great
and good-hearted man, but we look forward to celebrating Ernie's life in
the days ahead."
The New Look of Relationships/Parenting By Belinda Trotter James
A momprenuer is a woman who takes
care of the home, children, husband and can etch out time to have a career or
participate in a glamorous photo shoot for Marisa Kenson without disrupting the
harmonious flow of family time. I
have met such a woman who fits the mold of a momprenuer perfectly. It's so perfect that she teaches others
how to do the same. I won’t keep
you in suspense any longer as I reveal the name of the fabulous Daphne
Wayans.
Most people know her as the ex-wife of
one of the most creative, talented men in Hollywood, Keenan Ivory Wayans. In this exclusive interview Daphne
reveals how she and her five children survived a nasty divorce and is now in a
place of harmony, peace and writing for the Huffington Post as a relationship
and parenting expert…
When you think about Daphne Wayans, one
would say she has everything. You
would be surprised to know that there is one thing she does not have in her
house and that’s a television!!!
Thank goodness for neighbors who invite her over to watch some of the
reality or award shows. I had to ask myself if I would survive without a
television? The answer would be,
‘Yes’, but don't feel sorry for her because she and the children have Apple
devices in the house where they can watch something if they choose to. "I
am fascinated by the shows", says Daphne. “Sometimes I will go to my friends’
house, but I will not have that stuff in my own home.” Not one of her five children complains
about not having a television in the home. “I have a saying”, states Daphne, ‘If
it's that important, it will get to me’ and it does. I don't miss out on
anything. I don't hear about things that upset my life and I have peace; my home
is like a sanctuary and I'm not disturbed by sensationalism. My neighbor has a
television and oh, this is the trick… there are six of us in the house and we
have 35 Apple devices so TV is not the only way to see things. I just don't have
a big thing selling commercials in my house and being obtrusive.”
“There is no noise in my house; my
children read a tremendous amount and we actually commune together. My home is
my sanctuary; we treat it like a temple.
We don't wear shoes in the house, the lighting is intimate and it's an
intimate place. It's my nest where
I take care of my babies and nurture all the ones that I love. We go to the
movies a lot and we have lots of devices so we have access to things. Sometimes
the award shows come on and people will ask if we want to see it and I will say,
‘No, we can't; we have somewhere to go’. My house is very communal in the
sense that my kids are always together and it's not like someone is off in their
room alone watching television and just away. We are doing things together,
living together and sharing our experiences. Sometimes I will be in the
kitchen an embarrassing amount of hours cooking because I love it and it makes
me happy. I have these very creative outlets. Sometimes I’m cooking for 15 hours
because I don't realize what time it is and I just lose myself in it and they
[the children] just come in and out and they talk to each other and they talk to
me or they talk to their friends and we're just living, but TV sounds awesome.
Whenever I see all those channels,
I watch it like it's my first time seeing the
device.”
It seems like her children don't
complain or even miss having televisions in the house. Daphne adds, "Let
me just say this… besides the 35 devices we also have my ex-husband that lives
down the street from me and it’s like a different world. They have television at
his house. I don't mean to glamorize divorce as they say, but I call it the new
family and it really works well for us.
We share the time with our children 50-50. They are one week at one place and one
week at the other so we are all constantly changing and it's really nice
because we never miss each other. I mean we are always kind of missing each
other, but we never get sick of each other. We never really get sick of
each other because we are never really with each other long
enough."
Daphne was very young when she met Keenen. We started to
talk about their divorce and she lovingly said, “Since we have children, there
is no way a couple can be divorced. We are a family with parents who are not
married anymore, but we are still a family,” explains Daphne. “There is no name for it. I want to try
to create a name when exes have separated, but are still family. We are not
husband and wife anymore, but we're something. It's not cousins, it’s not
brother or sister, but we’re something to each other. We have to coin a
new phrase because the word ‘ex’ is something that the relationship was. When
you think of a mother and a child, it refers to what the relationship was. I
realize that all relationships are friendships and they all have titles just
like in the movies. Since I live out here in Los Angeles, I see there are actors and
actresses who play roles. So, in life you're all friends and then you have this
title. When you become an adult your parents are more like your friends, but you
have this history that they were once your mother and father and they did a good
job with you and you want to continue the friendship. You don't need your mother
and father to do the things as parents that they did when you were a kid like
helping you across the street or brushing your teeth.”
She continues to
say, “My mother hasn't had to mother me for a very long time. She hasn't had to wipe my nose or make
sure I'm enrolled in school or feed me good food for very, very long time. The
further away we get from that time, the less she will have to mother me and in
turn she becomes more of a friend. We have that history that she is my mother
and got me to a good place so that I could take over my life to make my own
decisions, but right now she's much more my friend even though I still call her
mom. And every time I call her my mom I'm reminded of the time we had when I was
little. I don't need her to mother me anymore; that's just the name of the role
she played in my younger life.”
“With my children I really try not
to treat them as items. They are not my purse, my shoes or my things;
they are my children. I want them to make decisions and I want to put them in a
safe environment and be a good example as well as put good examples around
them.” Being human involves many
different layers. As Daphne
explained how relationships start out as one thing and end up being another she
hoped it all made sense. At that
moment we just couldn't figure out a name that would acknowledge parents who are
not together anymore, but are still partners in raising their children together.
Sometimes divorce and the titles we give ourselves don’t fit the makeup of the
relationship.
"I went through a nasty divorce,”
reveals Daphne. “What I found out
was that the divorce was indicative of a deeply loving marriage and it was just
time for that to change because we've been together for a really long time. It
was just time to change just like a mother changes from treating her baby like a
little baby and letting a young man be a young man. It's a similar kind of thing and it
could be a little struggle in that change in reorganizing the family
structure. So in my marriage what remained was a friendship. That's what was there after all the
kicking and screaming. Divorce isn’t the right title to use especially when
you have children. Maybe you can divorce if you don't have children, but when
you have five children, there's no such thing. We’re not a couple anymore, but
we are definitely partners."
When partners do decide to separate and
dissolve the marriage and there are children involved, what do you say to those
faces that you brought into the world… into your world? Daphne explains,
"I just kept telling them it's going to be different. I just communicated with
them fully and truthfully. I have heard children say, ‘My parents divorced
because of me’, my children never said that and they never wanted to be in the
middle of it. So it was very good and easy. They felt, ‘This is between the both
of you guys. We love both of our
parents’ and they didn't want to hear anything about it. They got to experience
their parents on their own, individually".
For some divorce can look
really crazy for all parties however, children of divorce are forced into a
situation which allows them to experience one parent at a time. It kind of strengthens the bond because
the other parent isn't there to pick up the slack. Now dads truly know what it
is to take care of a child full-time and can no longer say, ‘Go to your mother
or go ask your mother.’ Now dad has to figure it out all by himself and mothers
may have to pick up some of the responsibilities of the father as well. "They
had to figure it out for themselves,” remembers Daphne. “They were four little girls that needed
their hair done and other girl stuff.
I think we both grew to have a greater appreciation of the other like,
‘Oh wow! This is what you do?’ And then I felt the same about him, like,
‘Wow! You pay a lot of bills’ and
he felt, Wow; you do all of this every morning to get them ready for school?’ So
we had a greater appreciation for each other.”
The question that everyone
should ask themselves is can couples realistically feel they can have it all…
the 24-hour careers, traveling, kids, quality family time, being a good
wife/husband, living a luxurious lifestyle… Can you have it all? "Of
course… You just do it. You make
your reality,” says Daphne. “You make it per you and don’t get involved
in the ‘what you're supposed to do’. When you involve yourself in ‘What am I
supposed to do?, You're supposed to do this, you’re supposed to do that…’ when
that’s your thinking process, then it's a wrap and that's where you go wrong and
get in a little trouble.”
Yesteryear the word divorce was like a
horrible, horrible disease that seemed to strip vital resources and happiness
from a family. Today's modern family of divorce has changed 360°. It is no
longer the death of a family unit. As you can see it works very, very well for
Daphne, Keenen and their children. "It's not a bad thing; it's just a
transformation of the family." says Daphne. "It's like anything else where you
add parts and reconfigure. So when you reconfigure, you're still mom and dad.
Divorce never speaks to what happens to the family. You say to yourself, 'Damn
we're divorced, but what should we do about being mom and dad. It's like a
misnomer". On Daphne’s blog she
goes into detail about the subject of divorce in a piece she calls, The New
Divorce And How It Affects The Modern Family. It definitely gives insight into
what happens in a divorce to the family unit.
In speaking with Daphne
she definitely practices what she preaches because you can feel that her spirit
is harmonious and at peace with her life as it is in this moment in time with
her divorce and the relationship she has with her children as well as her ex
husband, Keenen. It is definitely a blessing to be at peace with where you are
in life because some women cannot get past the resentment and feeling that they
should be reaping the rewards of the foundation that was built in the beginning
of the friendship/relationship/marriage. Many women don’t know how to move
forward? Daphne advises, “The way out of the fire is to go through it. Just be
willing to go through it. The more you lie down and pretend like you're
dead or you try to go around it, under it, on top of it… it's still there.
You have got to go through it because through it you come out stronger, bigger,
better, more enlightened and that's where the wisdom is. The wisdom comes when
you go through it. That's where you build your character and you build who you
are. It’s an opportunity to come out on the other side greater than where you
came in. In it there is a phase of anger, sadness, disappointment and all
the phases of what seems like a death.
Until you come out of that
crescendo that’s when you will look in the mirror and see how you got
yourself in that position. How did you get yourself in the position to not
have what you want after you built it? If you built something, you built a
marriage, you built a man and you created him to make him great… what did you do
after that?”
Love, marriage and divorce are topics
that can go on forever in a million directions and as a writer for the
Huffington Post she tackles all those topics and more. "I write for them and it was something
my publicist was able to arrange for me, but I wanted to write for them because
it felt like they needed me and I needed them. It was very mutual and it's a broad
audience so it just made sense. I get a lot of feedback from everywhere
because when I do something once it's published, I disperse it throughout my
social media world so I hear from everyone”, says
Daphne.
She has become an expert in her own
right by having five children and knowing what it takes to have a friendship, be
married and then divorced from your partner. Her experience has allowed her to start
writing two books at the same damn time on relationships and parenting. She is the type of writer who can dig
deep within to pull up some very insightful views on the human experience when
it comes to relationships. I'm not saying she has extra superpowers, but when
you have no television in the house, your other senses get 100 times more
powerful.
With her Huffington Post gig having
a large audience along with her social media followers who look to her for
advice she says, “To be honest I really don't like to advise people on their
situations because a person knows what they should do and it's their
perspective. I never want anyone to say, ‘She told me to do this.’ I want people
to take responsibility for their lives and decide what they should do by looking
at it because they have to live with it. I don't even tell my own children what
to do. I use a few tools and I say, ‘How would you feel if that was you? How
would that make you feel? Just be that other person for a minute.’ This really
gives them the skill set to think about their own life. So for the most part I
try not to advise people. I just say, ‘When I was in that position, this is the
way that I handled it.’ I'm not that person and that person has to live with the
consequences of a decision made good or bad. Usually when things don't turn
out well they want to blame someone else for the bad decision made; so I really
do try to avoid being in that position. I just really try to guide them toward
their own knowingness. Usually a person knows the answer; they just want
approval.”
Daphne loves the parenting part of her life, but don’t give
her your kids to parent. Reality TV
has produced shows that allow us to look into the world of parents who have no
control over their own children. An
expert had to come in and incorporate parenting techniques to the home. What
would Daphne do? "That doesn't help
a parent to fix it,” she replies. “Obviously it brings some calm to the
scene, but it doesn't establish a rapport between the child and the parent. Sometimes there are some very lazy
parents who don't want to be the bad guy. In that case they don't want to be
responsible for anything and they'll ask someone else to do it. I get asked all
the time to parent someone else's kids and I have to say, ‘No, this is your
child and you have to take responsibility for this kid and put them in a safe
environment.’ For example, there are some things you wouldn't tolerate
from a friend. I would never let my friend talk to me that way or let a stranger
talk to me like that. Nothing warrants having a rude or impolite disposition. My
kids and I see kids that are just rude. It's rude the way some kids speak to
their parents." Some parents or
mothers also get into trouble in their relationship when extreme mothering gets
to the point where nothing else matters including their marriage and everything
becomes secondary or ignored. Daphne adds, "Yeah they don't have a life of their
own. They learn the hard way."
In her spare time Daphne loves
helping other people and often volunteers to lend a hand to The Way To Happiness Foundation, which
also has a book with the same name. "It's a wonderful book of precepts of
all the spiritual books put into one book regarding the names of the Gods and
religious figures,” says Daphne. “I
love it so much and I try to use it in my every day life and it doesn't get in
the way of religious beliefs. So when I say to you I don't tell my children what
to do, I just find general rules of life. The same rules that apply to children
apply to adults. A child has responsibilities just like an adult.” Daphne also
helps out with the Keep A Child Alive
Foundation. “That's Alicia Keys organization,” explains Daphne. “She is so
active in that and I love it. She
is one of my sister friends. All of the efforts of the organization go towards
keeping a child alive in Africa. She had
T-shirts made up that said, ‘Drug Dealer’ because they provide medicine to the
children in Africa.”
In her spare, spare
time Daphne is busy on Instagram… “I am mentoring 40 women on how to be a
mompreneur,” reveals Daphne. “It’s a new area I am exploring so
that moms can stay at home and be with their children and they can also be at
home with their husbands and really take care of the home and at the same time
bring in a little income by having their own businesses where the home life
isn't compromised. It's pretty awesome."
What’s awesome is Daphne Wayans! Check out her e-boutique and buy
something nice for yourself on her website at http://www.daphnewayans.com On the site you can see her celebrity
photo shoot video for clothing designer Marisa Kenson who makes the most stylist
clothes for women. There are more
surprises coming from the house of Wayans.
Stay tuned on her Twitter pages for daily updates http://www.twitter.com/Daphnewayans
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