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Quick Quotes: Tameka Foster Raymond, Nicole Ari Parker, Chilli and Wendy Williams On Love And Life

Fresh — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:19:26 +0000

DIFFERENCE IN LOVE

You marry a person with the intent — and that includes my first husband — till death do you part. You make a commitment and you make vows, but the covenant you make is with God. It’s beyond the spouse. I believe marriage is a salt covenant. Once salt is combined, that means it’s virtually impossible to separate, nor do I think it’s intended to be separated. Just like a marriage. Especially within the first couple of years, you’re going to have ups and downs. Once you make any good decision, you should expect to be met with obstacles and some turmoil, because that is the devil opposing.

I have always taken that convent — and my vows — very seriously. I took it seriously the first time. And I took it very seriously the second time — even more seriously because I was so madly in love with him. My first husband, I loved him, of course, to pieces. But he was a high school sweetheart. More like a brother . . . Then to have married him, obviously wasn’t the best fit. But I still love him as a person.

NICOLE ARI PARKER’S ADVICE ON KEEPING THE SPARK AFTER MARRIAGE

I put it like this: I say the minute you find your husband, make him your boyfriend. You act different when it’s your boyfriend. You care about what you look like, you’re excited when he comes over . . . it’s just a nice way of not taking each other for granted. Because it’s true: marriage, you get in a pattern; you get in a rut. We just try to break the pattern.

WHY ADOPTION ISN’T AN OPTION FOR CHILLI

I felt pressure at 35. I felt pressure when I was 30. I’m 39. In a perfect world, I wanted to be married and have three kids by the time I was 30. Time has gone by, but it didn’t change the fact that I want another child. Different roads in life are for different people. Adoption is not for me. I think it’s a beautiful thing. All babies need to be with somebody that loves them. I really want to be pregnant.

MIXING BUSINESS WITH MARRIAGE

The business fights get very personal. Kevin can criticize me like nobody else can. He can hurt my feelings real good. On the other hand, he’s also an executive producer on the show, so my job is to make the product great; his job is to propel it. When he screws up, then I can talk to him like I wouldn’t talk to another manager. The only thing is, I can’t fire him, because that wouldn’t be so good.

MASHONDA’S CHANGE OF TIDE

When I watch it, I do get emotional sometimes especially the scene when they went to my house [season finale episode], and I look at the way I looked ten months ago, and its like wow. I was really going through something, I looked trashed. From the way I look now and the way I looked then, it’s a big difference. Lifestyle means absolutely nothing. I was blessed to experience living in a house that was 21,000 sq feet, driving Bentleys, that stuff comes and goes. I watched so many women lose their selves in that and they don’t know how to act when its gone. Its not going to last forever, so when it was over, it was over. I just knew it was time to start over. I live in a town house now, and I’m happy that it’s mine. (SOURCE)

Tameka Foster Raymond On Her Plastic Surgery Nightmare: ‘I Made A Really Dumb Decision’

Fresh — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:24:26 +0000

Back in February 2009 Usher canceled his performance at the Recording Academy and Clive Davis’s Pre-Grammy Gala to be at the side of his estranged wife at the time Tameka Foster Raymond after she suffered life threatening complications from plastic surgery in Brazil.

In the April 2011 issue of Sister 2 Sister the single mother of five handsome boys reveals in detail how a hasty “dumb” decision resulted in her going into cardiac arrest before the liposuction procedure on her stomach could get underway.

“I had a Brazilian nanny. It was her son’s birthday. She was very sad she couldn’t go and see him for his birthday. The tickets are very expensive to go. I had a little slight attitude, and I was like, ‘You want to go to Brazil? We’re gonna go.’ It was one of those Waiting To Exhale moments. You know how women do that? And when I got there, I started seeing all those pretty people walking around. And I was like ‘Dang!’ And my nanny was formerly a nurse there and she said, ‘Oh yeah, its popular here and inexpensive.”

“She was even telling me how people would get it and they would snap back so fast. And I just had a little pooch. I’ve always been a person who has been into my body and staying fit. And I had a baby, like, three months earlier. And I’m not going to lie, I was mad at my husband at the time so I thought, ‘Let’s take a trip.’”

“So I took my sister. I took my nanny. And I took my assistant. And everybody was shocked, like, ‘Vacation?’ I was like ‘Yep. I’m going to Brazil.’ And I had never been before and it was beautiful. The weather was hot, So me, I was just trying to be spontaneous. I sent the children to him with another nanny and assistant. I was like, ‘You deal with them.’ You know? ‘You want to be M.I.A. for the most part? You deal with them.’ And when I got there I made a really dumb decision. It was dumb, because it wasn’t nothing a few crunches and another month wouldn’t have gotten off. I never had the surgery. I ended up going into cardiac arrest while I was getting anesthesia.”

An Usher and Tameka Sex Tape? Drag Me To Hell.

Fresh — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:46:51 +0000

Curiosity killed the cat but regardless of the validity of the gossip at hand this pussy is staying alive to fight for another day! A sex tape featuring Usher and ex-wife Tameka Raymond sucking the salt from around each other’s rims rims rims rims in the bedroom is currently being shopped around to the highest bidder.

Sources close to Usher — without specifically admitting the existence of a sex tape — tell TMZ they believe this video could have been among the things Usher had stolen out of his car back in December 2009. Usher reported more than $1,000,000 worth of jewelry and electronics taken, including two laptop computers.

Tameka Foster has released a statement denying the existence of the sex tape, saying “Would I sanction a sextape being out? Absolutely not. I am a mother and entrepreneur. Sex tapes or pornography would not be my lane. I have no desire to be seen in that way.”

Drive By Rumors: Tameka Foster Raymond Turned Away From Usher Concert?

Fresh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:46:30 +0000

Now don’t act like extreme close-up shot of Tameka still doesn’t make you all hot and bothered after all these years. Via Hello Beautiful:

Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Raymond just can’t let it go … Tameka got turned away from the VIP at Usher’s concert in Atlanta the other night.

Word on the street is Tameka was trying to get backstage at the concert, with her youngest son on her hip, but Usher’s people weren’t having it. Tameka apparently made a scene and had to be escorted out of the area!

Cover To Cover: Usher Talks Divorce And Career Rebounding With Vibe Magazine

Fresh — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Space Pussy had a mouthful to say in his cover story with our girl Clover Hope for Vibe magazine. Pounce on this.

ON HOW LONG HE WAS THINKING ABOUT DIVORCING TAMEKA

“During our disagreements, that’s when I really began to contemplate marriage and if this is someone whom I’m compatible with. Anytime we had a disagreement or an argument, I began to contemplate: Wow, is this really gonna work out? I’m going through hell right now, given the fact that people have an opinion about our relationship. I can’t be unhappy at home and fighting the wars or the opinions outside… ‘You should’ve handled things this way,’ ‘I wish you would’ve said this,’ ‘You’re handling me wrong,’ ‘I don’t like the way I’m feeling about this’—it could be anything, man.”

Gucci Celebrates FNO and Gucci For Fawn Day With Mary J. Blige

Fresh — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:10:10 +0000

Dear Tameka, Log Off of Twitter And On To Life

Fresh — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:41:47 +0000

While most people her age resort to throwing online shade via etching threats in stone tablets Facebook status, Tameka Raymond is keeping up with the times on Twitter. In her digital cross-hairs this time around is former Def Jam Records executive and Usher’s current mother substitute (Copyright Sandra Rose) Grace Manuel.

Rewind: Tameka Foster-Raymond Appears On CNN

Fresh — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:27:49 +0000

The primary focus of Tameka Foster-Raymond’s appearance at CNN should have been on all the positivity she promotes with her Lost Ones Foundation but quickly turned into a Q&A session about her controversial marriage with Usher. I’m not sure if she or Don Lemon is to blame for the misstep but a little media training is never a bad idea.

Quick Flicks: Usher, Tameka, and Naviyd

Fresh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:23:50 +0000

The Magical Monchichi and his ex-wife set aside their dicks and pride to celebrate son Naviyd’s 1st birthday earlier this month. The Alladin themed party was held at the Compound in Atlanta featured camel rides [#shade], face painting, magic carpet seating, and henna tattoos.

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Buzz Notes: Tameka Foster Raymond Is Not A Real Housewife of Atlanta

Fresh — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:13:00 +0000

. . . in more ways than one.

If Dwight Eubanks had functioning tear ducts he would be all cried out over the news that the formers Mrs. Magical Monchichi will not be joining the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. After much speculation she finally set the record straight with the following statement.

“While I am flattered at the rumor circulating about being considered to join the cast of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, I am absolutely not joining the cast. I was initially approached by the producers for last season and declined. At this point, my priorities are focusing on being a mom and my philanthropy, Lost Ones Foundation.” [source]