Fantasia Barrino is next up on JET magazine’s newest issue. Inside, the mother of two talks about her feeling of renewal following her dramatic relationship with her child’s father, Antwuan Cook. She also shares how she’s learned a lesson about the importance of self-discovery and changing her focus since the birth of her son:
ON MOVING ON:
“I am finally able to love myself. The main thing I wanted in life was peace and freedom; the ability to let go…You could say the stage saved me because when I’m in front of people I carry my pain and soul…That is my salvation.”
On BEING A SINGLE WOMAN:
“I’m single and happy. I have a great relationship with both of my children’s fathers… If you catch me with either of them, we are not together— we are just being good parents. All I’m focused on right now is music and my kids.”
You can read more from this issue once it hits newsstands on Monday, February 25th.
i love all of her music, her livec she is just awesome, lose to win is my jam!
I was just reading the comments elsewhere about the photo on the mag cover being like ‘a decade’ old, lol. Since Fantasia has confirmed, that is messed up they would use this. She does look good and happy these days and I’m really looking forward to some more music from her.
Yeah I think it sucks…especially when as an Artist you are trying to prove that you have grown. And with a new album you have a new sound, look, and direction. Using a 10 year old picture doesn’t really help.
SN: fantasia could have handled the situation better than what she did. Artist +Social Media= Disaster
I guess they couldn’t get her in for a photoshoot. At least the excerpts are recent. Lol
Fantasia like a lot of Black women tend NOT value the importance of strong relationship PRIOR to having unprotected sex and hence unplanned children. Fantasia lied about the nature of her relationship, slept with a then married man and felt that in the end she could buy love and be happy. Women have to learn to build the foundation of a relationship FIRST, then get married, and then have a child. Children deserve to be born into a FAMILY that has two parents who have an interest in providing for that child as a couple. Too many Black women raise children alone in the Black community and it’s really because Black women make poor choices in who they choose to be with. Fantasia set a terrible example for her daughter with her suicide attempt and the messiness of her last relationship. I also don’t buy any of her comments that she now “loves” herself….she must have a new CD about to drop because those words are very empty coming from her. My parents are still married and my girlfriend and I are best friends and when we get married we will build a family…I just wish more blacks understood the importance of these values.
I knew I liked you, Richard! You better say that. However, let’s share the blame equally. We as back women do have to make better decisions about relationships and marriage BEFORE bringing children into this world. Let’s be real, if the man is not committed to you, chances are, he won’t be committed to your child. In the same vein, black men have got to demonstrate more responsible behavior PRIOR to having children. He has to understand that maturity means a monogamous, committed relationship with one woman, not several.
Excuse me? Even though it’s a black female celebrity we’re talking about here. A baby is made by TWO people. Safe sex is also a decision of TWO people, and children are made by TWO people not by one woman who makes ‘bad decisions’. Richard I am staring to think you have a bit of a bad relationship with black women if not black people as a whole (not including your family obviously and friends, say your ‘we’ club).
My parents were married before they had the four of us. They divorced because of my fathers indiscretions but I’m not mad at him it was the best thing that happened to my mother (and us too).
People all over the world need to learn to have better relationships yes, but it’s NOT always the woman in said relationship. People need to let other people breathe in friendships and other human relationships. Don’t smother each other, but communicate normally and frequently. You can’t ‘smell’ what another person is thinking (so to speak).
Mr.Overstreet thank you so much for your option.Fantasia like so many people does not live in your perfect world. Yes, she has made so wrong choices but who hasn’t most certainly it sounds as though you haven’t. If she says she loves herself who am I to call her a lie. Have you spent anytime with her? People GROW and they evolve. Trials do and can make you strong and a better person and surely a lot wiser.I will not sit in judgement of her because if I did I would be judging countless women like herself even some Grandmothers too who have and are raising children alone. I for one applaud her strength and tenacity. She is going to always encounter people like you.I ray she holds her head I HIGH and keeps it moving because her talent cannot be denied a gift from God as is her precious children.I pray that she has a blessed and prosperous life as for you. You don’t need my prayers you have it all together in your perfect world.
Correction opinion….and how would you know what she values. Do you actually KNOW her.As far as 2 parent home is concerned, those children don’t always turn out perfect. What you say about the countless men who have walked away from their responsibilities? So no one in your family has divorced or a child out of wedlock???