nia long is amazingly beautiful….. no homo

First!

Finally a cover where three talented black sista’a are on.

Okay well dam third!

I glad they look simple and not over the top like some artist are.

Three beautiful dark skinned black women?! LOVES IT! More images like this representing black beauty please?

Gorgeous pic is all i have to say.

beautiful!!

wow. three stunning nubian goddesses. the lord has blessed these women with true beauty, grace and style. Sanaa is lookin flawless once again. i wanna know what projects these ladies got comin up.

love,

Mary x

Black is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All three ladies look beautiful and Gabbie is so on point about these blogs.

well WE love all three of you!

“You got to lose your friend-zo if ya wanna ride in the Benz-o!”

Two of the baddest women in entertainment in my opinion; Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long.

Tell em Gabby! Put these fools on blast! Now these are some fyne ass honeys right here.

All three have the same smile.

I feel ya..I feel ya

They look fabulous and beautiful…no comment about the gossip blogs though!!! She is telling the truth!!!

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THEY AGING HELLA GOOD

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Agreed, Media Takeout just pulls stuff out of their asses everyday.

These 3 ladies look lovely!

They all are beautiful in their own right…but what’ up with the Stepford wives look? Must they all have the same overdone and tiyad ass weave…

Damn I didn’t even read the excerpt, I just commented on the pic.

I agree with Sanaa and Gab, it is women of color who have low self esteem and are on these blogs and want other women to think and act like them. I already said my two cents on the JHUD and James post, so no need to repeat. I was floored when the blogger was talking about scarstic and disrespectful man being good.

Gabby you are a single woman and if you want to date then do that don’t listen to what hateful hoes on these blogs have to say on here. Like I said try and listen to salt n’ peppa “None of yo buiness.”

they all look gorgeous…Nia is beautiful

@ RonG

I feel ya. And though this type of thing (gossip blogs with negative stories) comes with the territory of being famous, I can’t help but feel where they are coming from. Which is why I could never be famous (no matter how much of a star I think I am

Dear Mary J,

How do you cope with these types of struggles, being the HUGE celebrity that you are?

All my love,

lacyd

Gabriele Union makes a VALID point. Black people tear each other down constantly and it sad. Instead of being proud of the few African American women that are making some type of noise in Hollywood…people want to focus on a few pictures and create a fictional story out of it. Nia Long, Gabriele Union and Sanaa Lathan are great actresses and need to have more positive coverage about them!! Glad Essence is taking the time out to praise them rather than bring them down.

Snickers

I would love to, but I just can’t help it.

Gabby is on point and she’s a WestCoast G. All the ladies look good btw.

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Taking a Closer Look at the Stories Ignored by the Mainstream Media

She should be happy someone is talking about her, she hasn’t had a hit movie since Bad Boys. All these black actresses and singers should be happy someone remembers them because hardly any of them put out quality entertainment. Most of them just dress up and go to parties to stay relevant.

Sanaa and Gabrielle better watch out for that mall hag Nia, because she is a rough un’- She will beat a b—— ass in a hot minute.

She seems so scary to me. Like you better not look at her th ewrong way…pure ghetto that one. I mean that in the worst way possible.

Are you telling me Essence could not get anyone else. They use the same people over and over again. Here they are.

Monique

Mary Jay Blige

Nia Long

Terrence Howard (he’s a woman right?)

Gabrielle Union (several covers)

Sanaa Lathan (one cover?)

King Latifah

Poofy Daddy

Oprah (although she is over Essence now)

Dear Essence..there are other Black women you can put on the cover you know. Kerry Washington was nice a while back..and did I so love the most “misunderstood black woman” cover of Mariah Crey..lol

smh at Essence

What a great cover. They all look fabuolous.

On a side note:

Uh-oh the Mary imposter is back with her crazy ass.

lol

things are about to get interesting.

@ weezy

I wouldn’t say that their first choice for movie rolls wouldn’t be low budget BET films. Hollywood is so color struck it’s pathetic. If you’re not Halle Berry, then I can imagine that it’s tough being a black woman in Hollywood. For this statement, there should be no rebuttal, because what other black actress has struck it big time? No seriously, who? I can’t think of any, but I hope I’m wrong.

Look it comes with the territory!

Did they all use the same lipstick? I think they are cute, but nothing special. They look like any chick walking down the streest to me.

*know*

These ladies are classy!

Sanaa Lathan is beautiful, dont get me wrong Nia and Gabrielle are DYME’S but its just something about Sanaa that makes me wanna leave the one I’m with and start a new relationship

I agree with some of what they are saying & look forward to the article but it’s ten times worse with certain celebs like Bey to say nothing of the bro celebs if they FALL FROM GRACE!

Photoshopping is a blessing but my girl Sanaa better marry a black man & Gabby too! LOL!!! Nia’s already down with some nba ball player.

the only movies i have ever watched starring any of these ladies were…”bring it on” {shush it! i was a cheerleader} and boys in the hood {i still scream RIIIICKKKYYYY!!!!!} ANYWHO- i do think they are all pretty

Hmmm interesting that there are three black women on the cover of this magazine and ALL three of them have Weave down their back…The white standard of beauty remains strong (sigh)…would be nice if our TRUE Natural beauty and not as much “HorseHair” was being featured on the cover and perceived as Beautiful

yep not they are some fine woman…

I’m sure she’s smart enough to know that the black women digging on her are just jealous because none of them even know enough to call her anything. All they know about her is what they read on the blogs and none of that is verified. Some people just hate. That’s their job.

They all look great. Nia has always been one of my favorites. I’m glad she’s on Big Shots.

Gabrielle Union needs to shut the hell up and sit her ass down somewhere!!!

She should be glad that anyone wants to write anything about her unemployed ass. She needs something to keep her on the radar.

So why is it when ppl are talking about Beyonce this “it comes with the terriority” crap don’t come up. Like I said before I’ll say what I want about whoever, like it or not!

@ Lacy D:

Stop encouraging Mary!!!

LOVE all three. They look gorgeous. Don’t listen to the haters

Gabby needs to do right & go ahead & marry the bro from CSI NEW YORK! LOL!

some of yall sound mad this evening.

@reddnwood

Don’t encouage her to do that. Hill Harper is my husband. LOL

So is Starbury his wife just needs to keep him on a tighter leech so he won’t be sleeping with any more interns in the back seat of the truck.

i think the pic looks bad because its way too photoshopped.

I think think the rumors about Gabby are true, she is right…a lot of black women hate on her because she is so gorgeous.

All of them are beautiful. You can not pick just one! See men, how can you not love a black woman!

beautiful cover!

I am smart enough to know that most of the rumors are just that……rumors. Who cares who’s zoomin’ who?

What a pretty cover!

granted, all these women are gorgeous in their own right BUT every black actress in hollyweird has morphed into the same standard look – same makeup type, same weaves, wigs, style, same style dress – this is ridiculous and soon everyone of them will be unable to be differentiated – how unfortunate – individuality is rare in 2007

Gabby just lost me. I was a fan of hers, but now she’s getting on my nerves.

What does she think is going to happen by complaining about gossip sites? GOSSIP is GOSSIP. It’s not NEWS. And Gossip by nature is malicious and silly and often times untrue. So calm it down Gabby. You better be happy you’re getting any publicity at all. Shoot.

And it’s not like she’s hiding from it…she’s always cheesin for the cameras at some party or another! And all this b-s about how it’s coming from our her own community and boo-hoo, boo-hoo, woe is me! Give it a break. You’re not doing anything for the ‘community’ so why should we support you? You’re just a pretty face who’s been in mediocre movies. Get over yourself Gabster!

Rosey, you have a point. It’ll be really cool one day to see a black actress rockin’ her own hair and giving the weave a rest for a minute. But who knows, after wearing weaves for years, they hairlines might be jacked up…who knows

Finally beautiful black women on the cover of a magazine. I almost forgot what real sistas looked liked for a second.

@ Rosey

The same is true for white women in hollywood so whats your point?

Great photo!

Gabby, if you don’t want folks to talk about ya, stay ya ass at home sometimes…

I mean wtf are they takin all these pictures with each other if they don’t want to be talked about…doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Umm Gabby you need to chill out…if you know the truth about images put on here then wtf do you care about people saying sh*t. Hopefully Gabby you aren’t that insecure…I know you aren’t..so honey just chill

Nia Long: Very, very talented actress, and beautiful too.

Sanaa Lathan: No Nia Long, but she is beautiful and she tries, saw her in Nip/Tuck,beautiful.

Gabrielle Union: Not very talented and needs to get some acting lessons and find a job, aren’t we just tired of seeing her in every party shot.

Gabby, get a job!

Halle Berry: Works hard,and isn’t a party girl, maybe that’s why she succeeds.

Zoe Saldana: Talented, beautiful and hard worker, she has about six movies coming soon and she stars in two.

there are many other Black female stars doing well.

Wow, what is up with the haterade today? You’ll act like Gabby did something to you personally.

They look fabulous. I can’t wait to get my copy.

OMG, she is pretty hot! I love her! Her profile was just found on wealthy men personals site called Wealthy Romance.com where Charlie Sheen found his match last May! Good luck to her search!

They Pretty But Who Are They?

I love the pic and I can understand where Gabby is coming from. Still don’t respect Sannaa, sorry.

That thing with Denzel neither one confirm it but they never exactly denied it either. He states that he loves his wife and she stated that they were just in a movie together. Love Nina she’s the one with real talent (getting her something new on on her new show Big Shots).

Nah, she’s talking about a certain site that was talking about her and D-Wayde, and she’s mad they called her out because she has no business kickin it HARD w/ him. and she knows it too!

Picture is great. Makeup and photography team did a great job. If any of the ladies have problem with the blogs then stay home. The minute they leave the house to attend a party, a fundraiser, or shop for food, it’s on the blogs. I agree it’s not news. It isn’t news when you divorce your husband only to be seen with the new flavor of the month after standing by you when your situation was on LEAN. It isn’t news when any of these black actresses get pregnant out of wedlock, but we vilify their lower income counterparts on Hot Ghetto Mess. Right now, Halle Berry should be on the site, but she when she gets a pass from Oprah.

All three of them are gorgeous, but Sanaa looks flawless in that pic!

whatsup wit all these violent kittys….or is it kitties…w/e

they are sooo pretty!!! im kinda getting sick of gabrielle but she’s beautiful nonetheless.

can somebody please tell me how to use my gravatar??? i made one at gravatar.com but its still not showing up. what do i need to type or do?

I can guarantee you Sandra Rose will have something about this and I haven’t even checked her site.

Why are you taking a stab at her because she worked at Payles shoes? So what? She was a teenager. I worked at McDonald’s when I was 15. Most college students and teenagers have summer JOBS or at least they used to.

She was also RAPED.

I would bet she’s not sleeping with all the men she’s “partying with”. If anything, she probably has intimacy issues following what happened to her as a college student.

All of them are successful, Beautiful women, who will always have my support and that of my east coast crew. Being a Pretty girl is not easy..like Nanna always said UGLY people cause trouble! No hate for any of them, Gabby, do like Jill when she reads the blogs..say people do not have a life. Words hurt, but so does success…So FOCUS, please focus. Gabby has worn her natural hair out in many movies, and in pics, sanaa also…let it go people..U can do it..RELAX, RELATE, RELEASE and let the haters fall where they may. Keep entertaining me you honest people on here..and do something positive for someone.

Is it me, or does Nia Long kind of look like Angela Bassett in the cover pic?

Uhhh, she would be making the cover of the likes of Essence. Essence is a black magazine. There are like 6 big black stars making the circuit.

Sorry, black blogs can not be cited for her popularity, Lady in the Red.

Black blogs can be cited for keeping us up to date to her every move. I love blogs but I they’re not the power behind the media. In other words, a reporter can’t pitch a celebrity to an editor because they’re on a blog.

So, yeah, no. Have you seen the advertisements for this Web site, which I love, btw. It sure the heck isn’t on the same level as, say, perezhilton in terms of advertisement dollars.

I do thank the blogs for keeping me entertained, though.

I’m glad she was honest about other sisters hating on her…..if it’s a fact, why hide it? She and Halle are two of the most exquisite sisters out there. Nia too. Sanaa??? No, ’cause she riding Denzel’s pole, she’s a major skank ho.

The cover is hot…..

These chicks are ok, but they’re no Kim Kardashian. Now she’s hot!

Half of us might not be preoccupied with Gabrielle Union but what does that mean?

Black blogs love GU. Has that translated into $$$. You asked about her last number one movie. When was that? Despite all the black blogs gossiping about who she’s having an affair with that still didn’t result in ticket sales.

Despite all the black blogs having 100 % of their conent, or maybe 90 percent, about BLACK PEOPLE, how many covers are the negroes doing in mainstream media?

SO AGAIN, what exactly effect do popular blogs have on her?

We’re thinking about her and typing about her,which means what.

You’re not getting her on covers, you’re not making her movies sell out…

So what does this mean?

The black blogs are making money. THat’s about it.

So again, how does this benefit her? We talk about her?

We’re negroes for the most part, WE ALREADY KNOW WHO SHE IS.So we were already tlaking about her. She’s relevant on the black blogs because BLACK people know her. The blogs aren’t writing about Tracy Chapman.

And of all three of the negroes on the cover, Gabrielle Union is the only one the YTs know?

Why? ‘Cause of Friends and BRing it On.

@ persona

That’s not true. I’m familiar with the work of Nia Long. She was quite cheeky in that Alfie remake a couple of years ago.

Gabby needs to fall back with that nonsense. She’s probably mad that the paparazzi isn’t going through her trash, rendering her not worth it. Maybe if she wasn’t up in a different man’s face in every picture then she wouldn’t be on anyone’s radar. She plays innocent, but she knows exactly what she’s doing. She’s on her way out and she wants to stay visible.

3 successful sistahs doin’ it their way. Ain’t life grand.

Thanks to Love Jones~Nia will forever be in my heart

Super Proud of both Sanaa & Gabriel for proving that you can be successful and have a good time doing it!

that pic is so photoshopped they look fake.

I meant to write *why are black women ON this thread”

And we complain when men degrade us.

Nia is hottt

Lady in Red is typical Black female trash.

Sydney, you are just witnessing the typical behavior of many Black women. No one does a better job at insulting and attacking Black women, than other Black women.

And for all those insulting Gabby, when was the last time Halle Berry had a hit movie? Halle can’t sell a movie to save her life but White blogs keep writing about her. Gabby is a great Black actress and the fact that she isn’t Halle doesn’t mean she has no talent, honestly she is just too dark and not mainstream America’s taste as they don’t like to show pretty Black women that look Black. We should applaud Gabby cause if it wasn’t for her we would not see ourselves in films at all. You know Black films have a paper bag clause denying jobs to sistas who aren’t MIXED.

@ Blade

You are so right. The behavior of some of us saddens me. I don’t understand it.

ROCK IT!!!! those ladies are hott do what you do cuz I can’t do it by myself damn I hope I’m gorgeous when I’m 40!!!!

And I will add that we also complain that there are not enough images recognizing our beauty in popular culture, yet there are comments here that demean a gorgeous portrait of three sisters. Is that not hypocritical?

Photoshopped or not, these ladies are beautiful and have been in the business for years. They deserve respect — not degradation.

i’d hardly call them dark, dark is like kelly rowland, lauryn hill or alek wek.

just cus there arent many real black women in the media people think brown skinned gals who are, are dark which aint true.

we have alicia k, cassie, halle and mariah classified as “black” musicians or actresses they hardly look like the marjority of black people.

Thanks to the person above for pointing a few things out.

Halle Berry can’t act.

Halle Berry can’t sell a movie. See her recent movie that opened with a million dollars.

Halle Berry can’t get a cover of VOgue. Too black.

Yet she is still a household name to YTs for her roles because she is makes films with rarely any black cast members. So she can’t make them almost forget she is black (or biracial) until she decides to have a baby with a white dude, then the racists come out.

Most of the above ladies cannot do that.

Average at best. Well…they look like a whole bunch of other Black women. I don’t think people hate, I just think people are tired of people screaming these women are drop dead gorgeous when they look our friends, aunts, and cousins only with weave, a ton of make-up, filters, cameras, uncertain fame and money. Everybody look good on pay day. I don’t think people are haters when they don’t fall at the feet of these women – it’s just not eyecatching to some people when you or someone you know looks better and is natural. Everybody has flaws and luckily they can be hidden or fixed when you’re famous. Nia Long has nice hips but an ass like an old man…no shots from the back ever. Gabrielle Union is a lucky type cast one note. Everybody lets get extensions and photoshopped!

The fact that we’re even talking about her proves my point. Black blogs give us a medium to talk about black celebrities. As with all good things it comes with bad, the point is we’re talking about you. If we’re talking about a celebrity we’re thinking about them. If we’re thinking about you, it won’t come as such a surprise to go see a GU movie. Please don’t think blogs don’t make celebrities or lead into opportunities. You only need to look at KK to see how black blogs help your hustle.

Why am I the only who doesn’t think the reason Gabrielle Union isn’t getting roles is because she’s dark, which is confusing to me, because she’s beautiful. So skin tone trumps beauty?

While I’m on the subject – is it me or does Gabrielle Union play the same person in every movie?

She gets roles…if she’s not working her technique may be to blame. She does not transition or transform well. She’s always the sarcastic, lip curling, 30 year old. I think in movies they should just let her use her own name. She looks the same every movie – every time – same hair – same tone – same facial expressions. It’s just Gabrielle Union playing Gabrielle Union. Maybe she should change her look…slide out a few tracks and see what happens. She looks like every average chick with that damned long hair part on the side hair do.

No, Lady In Red, you did not prove your point. You noted that GU isn’t not selling out movies and/or getting roles, so it blogs translate into NOTHING. I think about walking past the lady that helps kids cross the street every morning, because it’s by my house, what does this mean? Absolutely nothing, except maybe I’ll be surprised if one day she’s not there. What does my surprise me? Just that. It means I’ll be surprised, which has no effect on her.

These three ladies look nothing like the average black girl. SOrry.

Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Chrisette Michelle look like the average black girl.

The average woman is OVERWEIGHT. The average woman is the person you see everyday and your’e not running into Sanaa Lathan types.

I agree Persona…how about I wear a 10 and always get called skinny. Most of those women are no more than 5’6, 110 lbs at the most, and maybe a size 4.

UPDATE AS PROMISED: My brother Souleo was the last person to interview Donda West and since Monday we have been pitching the article to be published and we got great participation from West Brands to make sure the story went to the right outlet. It will be released on Dec. 11th for the Jan. 08 edition of Sister2Sister magazine. Check out Access Hollywood for the press coverage regarding her last interview with Souleo. Thanks for supporting!!

My first thought was that they look like chocolate white women. I guess it’s because they are all wearing weaves. Someone said they look like the Stepford Wives. I agree.

Oh, but it’s a nice cover shot and they each look gorgeous.

persona

These three ladies look nothing like the average black girl. SOrry.

Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Chrisette Michelle look like the average black girl.

The average woman is OVERWEIGHT. The average woman is the person you see everyday and your’e not running into Sanaa Lathan types.

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Although the average weight has increased I disagree with your statement. I see sanaa lathan types all the time. They are people trying to stay healthy. I am one of them. I’m only 5’2” but diabetes and hypertension run in my family so keeping my weight in check is key. You may be looking in the wrong places. LOL.

@ lady in Red

you ain’t the only one..I think gabby gorgoeus but she chooses the same damn role..she never is challenging and that’s why It gets boring..she always take less then exciting rols…the only time she was ever really popular was in 03′ Baby Boys 2.lol..gabby needs to stop makign excuses and go for some rols that would give her that exposure..there comes a time when it is people’s time to shien and she hasn’t got it yet.i love Gabby but that’s just me showing tough love..stop making excuses gabby and all the people that are defending her

Vick

While I’m on the subject – is it me or does Gabrielle Union play the same person in every movie?

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I’ve never seen all of her movies but she was the same type of person in “Deliever us from Eva” and “Daddy’s Little Girls”. On the plus side she is always the successful woman.

One thing I think that you guys need to realize in all your “Gabby needs to pick better roles” bash is that no one, especially black actors, just gets the parts they want. Most of the time a writer/director will hand pick who they want to be in a certain role and not let anyone else read for the part. Example Johhn Deep is the same character in every Tim Burton film. Tim gives these roles to Johnny. Mind you Johnny is a good actor and does well but no one else is giving the chance to audition for the roles. Movies for black actors/actress are already slim.

If we can’t talk straight in the barbershop, where can we?

i.e. if we can’t gossip about our own, where can we?

On the flip, all three women are absolutely GORGEOUS.

Nia Long is so pretty…they all are

They are all gorgeous, but I hate all the hair.

There you go again..why her career gotta be “little”? ..And I’m pretty sure she’s been in the business long enough to know ‘the game’. The game of tearing down successful blacks played by SOME blogs…

they are beautiful AND they are hoes. sorry, that’s the story on them – love them in some of their films but as a respective group, yeah, they most likely slept with the same lot of men .. wasn’t nia trying to do some bible group? greater the sin, greater the saint .. whatever, they are too pretty to be such trash .. and for the one comment that compared them to the whites in hollywood, listen, we don’t compare so whe there’s a legitimate complaint about blacks in hollywood, it’s ONLY for them – white chics can do what they want, their standard isn’t as high as ours

Trying to stay healthy means what? You can try to stay healthy and still be a big ‘un. Yes, there are many women that are out there getting their work out on –mainly in large cities –but that’s not a reflection of the greater society at large. People forget that.

Like, 99 percent of my friends have degrees. Does that mean everyone does? Not so much since only 20% of society as a whole has degrees.

Go to Jena Louisianna, IOWA, Oakland and then get back to me on whether all or even most women look like those three.

Gabriel is right though. The only Black people the white media (hate to call it that, but hey – what can else can you say?) care about are Hallie, Denzel, Jay-Z and Tiger Woods. The Black media blogs do cover “us”, but it seems like it’s overwhelmingly in a negative light. Not to say that Perez is any better, but I think because of the way the world is, we should be. C’mon people. If you don’t know, you’re crazy – they are laughing at us ya’ll. Get hip to it! Get your mind out of the sand! Keep it provocative, but at the same time overwhelmingly positive. OK – you can now proceed with the bashing as usual or you can prove me wrong. I don’t think you have the guts…

Nia is gorgeous and a great actress. Gabby’s acting is marginal, at best. I can’t stand her for some reason. Saw her in Deliver us From Eva, and she was awful.

co-sign with gymo up there. There are a few working black actresses, but not enough. Queen Latifah is getting her paper.

Oh, and Nia is even more gorgeous with short hair, and not all of that effn make-up.

Some of us blacks needs to stop being delusional..just because they black we not stop tearing them down..but I see Blacks on here tearing down white celebs…lol..come on now..lets try to weaken negativity for all people..the general audience loves Denzel and Halle is because they have taken universal roles..that everyone can love..that’s why they are praised because they are well-rounded. Gabby takes the same role as being a stuck up business woman. Sanaa is good too but she doesn’t do anything extremely out of the box for people to apprecaite her talent. Nia is great too but she hasn’t had her breakthrough. I’m sorry but every blog tears people up it comes with the territiory it ain’t worst than any blog. stop saying blacks are worst. I make fun of celebs but at the same time I enjoyed them.

Ladies-focus more on your career (which arent exactly glowing) and less on public opinion, of which you have ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL!!!

@ Michelle

I feel ya. Wonder what the response would be if these three black goddesses were confortable enough in their own skins to rock their own hair in its God given natural state…..just wondering

I think this is the best Essence cover- all my fav actresses. I hope the content of the article has some substance.

lovely lovely cover. nia long looks a little stiff–the photographer should have adjusted the angle at which she was sitting and the weaves are a little too similar thus creating a very generic look, but overall a lovely cover.

I LOVE all three ladies and am an aspiring actress myself. In my opinion, those same white paparazzi hounding those white stars is what keeps them RELEVANT AND MAKING MONEY! That’s why you’ll see the white celebrities at any and every event to get their faces out there. Gabby, Nia, and Sanaa are not on their radar and truth be told, without these gossip sites all of their fans would be asking what happened to Sanaa, Gabrielle, and Nia? Its a double-edged sword but being on these black gossip sites is really one of very few ways we even get to see these beautiful black women…so in short…they betta be happy SOMEBODY CARES ENOUGH EITHER WAY TO PUT THEIR FACES OUT THERE FOR FOLKS TO REMEMBER!

And might I add, U think they are all beautiful and I adore them, but I LOVE THE GOSSIP MORE

They are Ebony Sun Goddesses. Very beautiful.

Weave is going to be the downfall of our community, lol. I don’t think these women see how far back their hairlines are getting and how those sides are balding. When some of them get caught w/o weave they look like they have a terminal illness or are going through something – that’s not right. Hair shouldn’t make you. First tracks, then extensions, now lacefronts. Genocide…

@ Sonny Corinthos aka Sun Goddess

Come back Sun Goddess, I miss you

Love The Stalker

@ Vick, Thanks for agreeing, but ZI think it is a little extreme to say that weve will be the downfall of the black community, I can think of a few more things but not weave. The point I was tryingh to make is and I think you got it, just because we as bloggers don’t agree withsomeone elses opinion does not mean we are haters. I know for a fact that I have good female friends I have sisters I love black women in a sisterly supportive way. But guess what I will talk about them hoes to if ned be and I think we all would. Let your sister friend or even your momma comeout looking like she just ate a bowl of gravy trainwith food drippings all onher shirt and mangled hair. we are going to go into attack mode and get them till they get it right. Not because we don’t like them but because we WANT them to look good and represent. SO if we do this to the ones we love what the hell are we supposed to do about celebrities.. I am going to give it to them till they get it right. Hell she knew what the deal was when she signed her soul over to the media devil… and if she want’s so much privacy get off the cover of essence and go home

Just because a person is black, it does not mean I will stand blindly behind you and support you every step of the way. Why should we? Didn’t our mother, fathers and grandparents march for equal rights? If we want to be treated equal then we can gossip as much as we want like every other group. She should be so lucky that people are paying attention to her and not on Hallie Berry who gets far more roles and more press time.

Ok, I agree again ‘hey girl & ed’ the term hate is used too loosely simply for going against the grain. As for weave being the downfall of our community, lol – another one of my jokes on the edge of reason. You are right…my friends and family give it to me the worse. When you get it from close friends that avoids external drama. Funny how when we see a woman that’s tore up…me and my girls shake our heads and say “Umm she must not have no friends or You better not ever let me leave the house looking like that.” Even if we’re out and somebody is acting inappropriate…we may say “Choke me out if I ever do that.” People need to realize gossip isn’t always based on hate, sometimes it’s based on selection, decorum, and personal preference. Like when people saw Halle’s extensions showing, it wasn’t done because people hate her – it was done because of how they were showing and hell people were shocked. I thought it was her hair too. We talk the same or even worse about the woman passing by whose weave is showing. GU needs to stop complaining – really. The time she’s taking to check blogs, listen to gossip, and get caught out gazing at folk she should take a few acting classes and get some dimension to her skill and character. She’s a one trick pony…with the hair. LMAO!

I am the editor of a blog and i happen to be a black woman. I am a little disenchnated by Gabby’s comments. Not all Blogs By Black Women post negative articles about Gabby or any of the other ladies. Actually there ar emany of us who appluad their talent, style and grace…

So Gabby better get her facts together and apologize soon before the backlash really begins..

By the way, could this be a publicity stint for her new movie “Home for the Holidays”?

How gabby know these websites are not run by white people. Just because it reports only black news does not mean it is run by a black person.

Rich & happy and aren’t they all single… no man in sight!!!

Im with you, Gabby. It’s one thing to state rumored news but some of you bloggers act like you were there and have pictures to prove for these trysts (which you dont). I wouldnt want to be called a homewrecker or round the way girl either! I LOVE LOVE LOVE NIA LONG! : )

Well, I read the article in Essence featuring 3 beautiful ladies, who in my opinion are great actresses. They were very inspiring. As far as weaves go, I don’t see the big deal. Hair doesn’t define a woman. It is just that….hair. It is like cosmetics..it enhances your looks. I’ve watched a lot of their movies and love their acting. You have to be picky about what roles to take…don’t just accept anything otherwise they don’t get that respect. They go through the struggles of trying to get that one role that will shoot them to world wide fame. Don’t get me wrong I love Halle Berry but if it wasn’t for the fact that she displayed her *ss on film with (of all the actors), Billy Bob Thorton, she would not have received that oscar. So, I don’t blame these 3 ladies for not giving in to just anything! I respect them even more.

Great article, I especially like what you had to say in the last paragraph.