Jessica Alba for Health Magazine - April 2019
Her Empire Her business was valued just shy of $1 billion back in October 2017.
So it comes as no wonder Jessica Alba feels comfortable calling herself 'smart.'
The 37-year-old business woman admitted in her April 2019 Health magazine cover story that had questioned her intelligence until her success in the business world.
She was interviewed by fellow entrepreneur Ayesha Curry who asked her what she has been too hard on herself for in the past.
Alba answered: 'When I was younger, I thought I wasn’t smart. I didn’t have a conventional or higher education. Now, after starting a business, I feel OK with identifying myself as smart.'
She goes on to admit that even she has even struggled in the acting world as she has not had the same education in theater.
The Dark Angel star explained: 'I even felt inferior saying I was an actress without being classically trained. It took me a while to find my confidence.'
'I may not be the best actress ever, but do I have my moments? Definitely. And don’t underestimate street smarts—all of that hustle and life experiences. You have to roll with the punches—that’s how you’re going to be successful in life.'
The Honest Company was founded by Alba in 2011 and will soon be extending to Honest Beauty slated for a release later this year in Western Europe.
Jessica is also known as a Hollywood celebrity who has known how to take care of her body so no doubt many will be surprised that she isn't a fan of the latest health trend of celery juicing.
She said: 'I tried celery juicing, and it empties your bowels in a very violent way all day long—and I like things that taste good, and that just doesn’t taste good.'
The A-lister's definition of wellness is about 'checking in' as she says she changes up her routine on a daily basis while holding herself accountable.
She said: 'Some days I just need to go in my room and read a book for an hour and put a face mask on. Other days I need to wake up at 5:15 a.m. and get a spin class in to feel good—even though I hate waking up early.
'I’ve tried to get into TM, a type of meditation, but it felt so hard-core. Wellness should feel like something I want to do. If I’m going to do a meditation, I like to do a guided one, and there are apps for that.'
She has been married to 40-year-old film producer Cash Warren since 2008 as they have three kids together: Honor, 10, and Haven, seven, and son Hayes, one.
Alba says her relationship with Warren is what she is most proud of when it comes to her personal life as she told Ayesha for Health: 'My husband and I like each other still. [Laughs] I’m not good with conflict.
'I didn’t know how to express myself, and I feel like I’ve evolved into this person who can communicate so you can address stuff before it gets out of control. We’re best friends, and we respect each other.'
#RHOA: Which Atlanta Housewife has the Highest Net Worth?
It’s no secret that The Real Housewives of Atlanta love to flaunt their money. Not only do they live to show off their coins, but they also love to talk about how much more each of them has than the other women.
While they all have money, it’s clear that some of these Georgia peaches are richer than others. Let’s dive into which housewives are the wealthiest.
Porsha Williams: Williams has the least amount of money out of the housewives currently on the show. She was a main cast member in seasons 5 and 6 but was demoted to the “friend of the cast” position in season 7. Now, she is back to being a full-time cast member.
In 2013, her net worth was listed as being $16 million, but is now currently only $500,000. This could be partially due to the fact that she did not receive any alimony in her divorce from former football player, Kordell Stewart.
As of 2016, most of her income came from her role on RHOA and her job as a co-host for Dish Nation.
Cynthia Bailey: Bailey made most of her money as a model while signed with the Wilhelmina Models agency. She landed the cover of Essence Magazine as her first booking. She has been featured in high-end magazines like Vogue, Elle, Glamour, and more. Now, she earns the majority of her income from The Real Housewives. She is currently worth $500,000 and makes $300,000 per season of RHOA, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Eva Marcille: Marcille is one of the newest housewives to get a peach. She first came onto the celebrity scene when she won the third season of America’s Next Top Model. Since then, she has become a successful actress, landing small roles on Everybody Hates Chris, Smallville, The Assistants, and more. She also had prominent roles on House of Payne and The Young and the Restless.
She is currently worth $3 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Shamari DeVoe: DeVoe is another new housewife. She is most known for being the lead singer of the group Blaque. The group reached their peak in the 90’s. She has also worked as an actress, appearing in movies like Bring it On and Honey. In 2006, she married singer Ronnie DeVoe.
The singer and actress now has a net worth of $4 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Nene Leakes: Leakes is the last remaining original member of the RHOA cast. She was a series regular from seasons 1-7 but then took a break to focus on acting. She came back as a regular cast member in season 9. She has also appeared on a number of television shows, including, Glee, The New Normal, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Amandas, The Game, and Let’s Stay Together.
Leakes reportedly makes $1 million per season of The Real Housewives. She is currently worth $14 million.
Kandi Burruss: Which brings us to the most wealthy RHOA, Kandi Burruss. Burruss came onto the show in season 2 and is still a main cast member. Prior to joining the show, she was a member of the popular group Xscape. She also has a line of intimate toys called Bedroom Kandi. Burruss has accumulated a great deal of her wealth by writing songs for artists such as Whitney Houston, Pink, Boys II Men, Ed Sheeran, and more. She most notably wrote “No Scrubs” for TLC.
She is now worth $35 million.
So what do you think is it so….OR NAH?
#Empire: Jussie Smollett only Appears in Zero of 38 ‘Empire’ Promotional Photos for Fox.
“Empire” returns from its fifth season’s winter hiatus tomorrow night with an episode that includes the recently-indicted Jussie Smollett.
But you might not know that if you were to look at the promo photos from the midseason premiere episode, which Fox recently posted to its press site, ’cause Jamal (Smollett) isn’t in a single one of them. And the hip-hop soap opera’s third lead is not in the shots for the following two episodes either.
Smollett — who plays the openly gay middle son of Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and Lucious (Terrence Howard) — is absent from all 38 production stills that are currently available to media from Episode 510, 511, and 512.
However, the other regular cast members, including Howard, Henson, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Nicole Ari Parker, Gabourey Sidibe and even Season 5 newcomer A.Z. Kelsey, are all present and accounted for to some degree in the photos.
For the sake of comparison, Lucious/Howard is in 11 of the 38 promotional pics, Cookie/Henson is in 10, Hakeem/Gray is in four and Andre/Byers is in six. Hell, Andre Royo’s character Thirsty Rawlings is in five of them.
“Empire” executive producers announced last month that they had decided to cut Smollett from the final two episodes of the Fox hip hop drama’s current season, following his arrest on the charge of filing a false police report.
But since he hasn’t been cut from the ones that were already in the can prior to that decision, his absence from the promo photos for the first three episodes of “Empire’s” midseason return is quite noticeable.
#MusicNews: Cassandra Lucas of Changing Faces her Debut Solo Album “The Intro”
Veteran singer Cassandra Lucas from the R&B group Changing Faces has just announced the release of her upcoming debut solo album. The album is appropriately titled “The Intro” and is set to release on April 16th, 2019.
She shared the following message to accompany the announcement:
It’s been a long time coming….And now I can finally say my debut album is coming out on April 16th. I can’t wait for you guys to hear it!! Y’all ready???
This album has indeed been a long time coming. Lucas most recently released the single “Name on It” early in 2018. Prior to that, she’s released a few different singles over the years and it appears the time is finally now for her debut.
#HipHopNews: J. Cole Announces The Dreamville Festival Lineup
After being delayed due to Hurricane Florence last year, the Dreamville Festival will go on.
J. Cole has revealed the new lineup for his inaugural fest, which is set to take place on Saturday, April 6 at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In addition to Cole as the headliner, the star-studded lineup includes 21 Savage, Big Sean, SZA, 6LACK, and Nelly. The festival will also feature performances from Teyana Taylor, Davido, and Mez, along with North Carolina’s own Rapsody and King Mez. The entire Dreamville roster will also hit the stage including Bas, J.I.D, Cozz, EarthGang, Ari Lennox, Omen, and Lute.
The festival was originally set to take place Sept. 15, but was rescheduled due to Hurricane Florence which caused evacuations across North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of Virginia.
GA and VIP ticket packages are on sale now at www.dreamvillefest.com.
Wendy Williams has revealed she's been living in a sober house, seeking treatment for addiction
Wendy Williams is seeking treatment for addiction, she revealed on her show Tuesday.
“You know me for being a very open and honest person. You know Kevin and I have the Hunter Foundation for the good of the people and we recently launched out 888-HUNTER number for people who are in the struggle of addiction. Well, for some time now, and even today and beyond, I have been living in a sober house,” a weeping Williams, 54, told her studio audience.
"When you see me come to work glammed up, right after the show, I do Pilates ... You know I’ve had a struggle with cocaine in the past," she said. "I never went to a place to get treatment. I don't know how. God was just sitting on my shoulder and I just stopped … there are people in your family, it might be you … I want you to know more of the story.”
The talk show host revealed that she goes to the facility after work and personal obligations daily and still lives a "glamorous" life despite her struggles.
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“After I go to the Pilates I go to several meetings all around town in the tri-state area, and I see my brothers and sisters caught up in their addiction and looking for help,” she said. “They don’t know I’m Wendy. They don’t care I’m Wendy. there's no autographs, there's no nothing. It’s the brothers and sisters caught up in the struggle. It’s been really interesting, this ride.”
She continued, “Only Kevin [Hunter, Sr., her husband] and Kevin [Jr., her son] know about this. And that is my truth."
Williams revealed that she kept her struggle a secret from the rest of her family and friends.
"Not my parents, nobody. Nobody knew because I look so glamorous out here. After I finish my appointments … I am driven by my 24-hour sober coach back to a home that I live in the tri-state with a bunch of smelly boys who have become my family," she confessed. "We talk and read and talk and read and then I get bored with them. Doors locked by 10 p.m., lights out by 10 p.m., so I go to my room and stare at the ceiling and fall asleep to come here and see you. So that is my truth.”
Williams had been absent from her show for the bulk of early 2019. She initially cited complications from Graves' disease for her hiatus.
Tyler Perry steps in to help pay for funeral of slain Wisconsin mother
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Less than a day after the family of a slain single mother of four launched a fundraising appeal, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry has lent his support.
News outlets report Perry offered to take care of the family’s rent to stave off eviction, arrange for 45-year-old Tynesha Evans’ body to be flown to Wisconsin for burial and cover her 18-year-old daughter’s tuition at Spelman College so she doesn’t have to drop out.
Evans was killed Saturday morning outside a bank near Atlanta. Her boyfriend, 58-year-old Othniel Inniss, was arrested at the scene.
Evans was an author and a full-time health care worker. According to the family’s GoFundMe, two of her four children are still minors.
One of them, 14-year-old Shakemia Turner, called Perry “an angel on Earth.”
The Trailer For ‘Toy Story 4’ Dropped And Everyone is in their Feels!
The first look at “Toy Story 4” in action has been released and, oh boy, is it a doozy. The tear-jerking trailer features everyone’s favorite characters, including Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Rex, Hamm and Bo Peep.
In this new chapter, we see a new toy come into the mix ― Forky, voiced by Tony Hale, aptly named because he’s in fact a fork. The trailer features Woody and Forky on a road trip of sorts. And as these toys are wont to do, they get into mischief.
Set to the tune of the Beach Boys’ hit, “God Only Knows,” the trailer is full of little moments sure to make viewers cry for days. In an interview with ET Online, Tim Allen, who voices Buzz Lightyear, all but confirmed this: “The last 12 minutes of that thing is beautiful and wonderful and emotional and [I] literally got choked up. I can’t tell you how simple it is but how wonderfully emotional it” gets.
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“Toy Story 4” hits theaters on June 21.
Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty are NOT a married couple!
After igniting rumors earlier this month, TMZ reports that the couple did not secretly wed. There was speculation that Minaj and Petty had walked down the aisle after Nicki referred to her man as her “husband” on the latest episode of Queen Radio.
“Every night when I get out of the shower, my husband takes this really good lotion that we just bought and he massages my feet,” she said during the March 12 episode.
However, wedding bells could be in the future. Sources close to Nicki say that she’s “very much in love” with Petty, but the marriage reports are false.
Just a few months after they started dating in December, the two have already discussed marriage and starting a family together.
As for his criminal past, Nicki is not bothered by it and she’s tired of people bashing him. Petty is a registered sex offender and was convicted of manslaughter and first-degree attempted rape. Minaj has come to his defense and notes that he and the rape victim were teenagers and dating at the time.
Nicki and Petty go way back. The two met when Nicki was a 16-year-old living in Queens and reconnected late last year. The couple hasn’t been shy to show PDA on social media. They vacationed together for Nicki’s 36th birthday and Petty has been traveling with Nicki on her “Nicki WRLD Tour” across Europe.
Lupita Nyong'o came to GMA rocking a colorful floral dress promoting her upcoming movie ‘Us’
And Lupita Nyong'o looked positively stunning in a flirty floral dress ahead of her appearance on Good Morning America in New York on Tuesday morning.
The 36-year-old stunner covered up in a mustard yellow jacket after praising the director for his 'refreshing' portrayal of a black family in his upcoming horror film.
The Black Panther star rocked a retro-inspired gown complete with a key-hole neckline and ruffled hem.
She tied her curls up into a chic top bun fashioned into a bow and wore ombre shades with sparkling diamond accents.
Her bright red heels matched the shade she swiped across her lips and she carried a yellow alligator leather purse.
Lupita 'loved how unremarkable' it was that the lead characters in the psychological horror were an African-American middle class family and the fact that their ethnicity was irrelevant to the film's plot.
'I loved how unremarkable it was that they were black, because I often feel quite unremarkable, I don't live my life always considering the color of my skin and it was nice to have that,' she told Sky News.
'A family that we could project our own understanding of a family on to no matter what color our skin is, and that the paradigms to which they were navigating this particular monster had nothing to do with the color of their skin. Yeah, that's refreshing.'
Us, which also stars Winston Duke and Elizabeth Moss, follows a family enjoying a vacation at the beach, but their serenity quickly turns to chaos when a group of horrifying doppelgängers begin to terrorize them.
Cardi B To Star Alongside Jennifer Lopez In ‘Hustlers’ Movie
The cast also includes Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians), Lili Reinhart (Riverdale), Keke Palmer (Scream Queens), Julia Stiles (Silver Linings Playbook), and Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King).
Inspired by a 2016 New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of former strip club employees who team up to get revenge on their wealthy Wall Street clients by maxing out their credit cards.
In preparation for her role as a stripper, J.Lo went on a 10-day no-sugar, low-carb diet and has been practicing pole dancing. Alex Rodriguez shared footage from his fiancée’s training sessions on social media.
Cardi B will have her own experience to draw on. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper has been outspoken about her past as an exotic dancer. “I [stripped] for three-and-a-half years,” she told Ellen last year. “I don’t recommend it to everybody because it’s not for everybody, but it made me money. It paid my bills. It got me my own apartment and my boob job…I started getting a lot of money and the money I made, I used it to invest in my dream.”
Additionally, Cardi is set to appear as a judge alongside Chance the Rapper and T.I. on “Rhythm + Flow,” Netflix’s upcoming hip-hop talent competition.
#SPORTSNEWS: Los Angeles Angels offers Mike Trout a new $430M deal
Star center fielder Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are finalizing the largest contract in professional sports history, a 12-year deal worth more than $430 million that will smash previous records and could keep the greatest player of his generation with the Angels for the remainder of his career, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN on Tuesday.
Trout, who has won two American League MVP awards and finished second four times, will receive an average of nearly $36 million a year, topping Zack Greinke's previous record average of $34.4 million with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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The $430 million-plus total is more than 30 percent larger than the $330 million deal Bryce Harper signed with the Philadelphia Phillies on March 2 and bests boxer Canelo Alvarez's deal with DAZN by more than $65 million.
Trout, 27, was due to be a free agent following the 2020 season, at which point he was expected to set off a frenzied bidding war among the largest-market teams in the game. The clamoring already had begun, with Harper lobbying for Trout to join him in Philadelphia, 45 miles from Trout's hometown of Millville, New Jersey.
The Angels will nullify that possibility by ripping up the final two seasons of his six-year, $144.5 million deal and replace it with the new 12-year deal through the 2030 season, sources told ESPN.
A generational talent with an unparalleled set of skills among his peers, Trout has put together arguably the greatest start to a career in baseball history. In 1,065 games, he has slashed .307/.416/.573 with 240 home runs, 648 RBIs, 793 runs and 189 stolen bases. No player in history has put up more wins above replacement through his age-26 season than Trout's 64.3.
While the Angels' past forays into long-term contracts have not paid off -- their 10-year, $240 million deal with Albert Pujols and five-year, $125 million deal with Josh Hamilton both are considered albatrosses -- the possibility of losing Trout was simply too daunting to not complete a deal.
Mike Trout is among the Angels' franchise leaders in a number of statistical categories despite not even ranking in the top 10 in games played in team history.
Trout casts his lot with an organization that has made the playoffs just once during his eight major league seasons -- and was swept in the first round when it did. Los Angeles' bustling farm system and the ability for owner Arte Moreno to parlay a $3 billion local TV deal into higher payrolls gave Trout enough security to lock down a deal through his age-38 season.
After joining the Angels as the 25th pick in the 2009 draft, Trout blitzed through their farm system and debuted at 19 years old during the 2011 season. He established himself as a star the next season, winning the AL Rookie of the Year award and finishing second in the MVP voting for the first of two straight seasons. He won the award in 2014 and 2016 and finished second again last year, arguably his best season yet, in which he slashed .312/.460/.628 with 39 home runs and 79 RBIs in 140 games.
Notorious B.I.G.’s Mother & Faith Evans Sue Snowboard Company For Using Rapper’s Face Without
Yes. Snowboards have landed in hot water with B.I.G.’s ladies.
The Swiss athletic company has been collecting a coin by using Biggie’s face on some of their merch. While it may have been an innocent acknowledgment of a rap legend, it wasn’t appreciated by Faith Evans or his mother, Voletta Wallace.
The Blast got a hold of court documents that explained the case. Apparently, the company and photographer, Chi Modu, worked together to bring the boards to life. Modu was the man behind the lens of B.I.G.’s infamous World Trade Center photoshoot, which is the image on the snowboards. Faith and Voletta set up Notorious B.I.G., LLC in order to take charge over who gets access to the late rapper’s
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