You better go girls! Actresses Gabrielle Union, Sanaa Lathan, & Nia Long, grace the December 2007 cover of ESSENCE magazine - and they look spectacular! In the issue, they discuss everything from their acting careers and being in-between jobs to the disdain they share with gossip sites, particularly those run by black women. (Uh-oh... do we still count?) It looks like our girl Gabby had the most to say. See below...
"Just last week somebody gave me a baby. This isn’t Perez Hilton or the White gossip people, these are women of color, specifically Black women who, for whatever reason, don’t like the company I keep.
'And now because everyone is clamoring for celebrity tidbits, the bigger gossip sites and even mainstream entities are picking up on it. No fact-checking, no nothing. And in one week’s time, there were like five different dudes, a baby—I’m a homewrecker. In literally seven days. I can’t point the finger at the White media. They don’t care about us. Paparazzi are not staked out in front of any of our houses. They are not going through our garbage because they don’t care about us in that way. So when you hear crap about us, it is coming from our own community, which hurts.
'There is this idea that there is integrity in journalism; if it’s written it has to be true. But that’s not the case. When blogs or any of the magazines get it wrong, there’s no accountability. In the next breath, they’ll complain on the blogs that we don’t have enough Black stars. Well, you rip us to shreds every two seconds from our nose to the weave to the clothes to the shoes to the ashy ankles."
LOL! Though you must admit, she does have a point. Black women tend to critique each other the hardest. Perhaps if we supported one another more often, we'd all get a little further in life. Actually, that message is applicable to the Black community as a whole... Kudos Gabby!
Here's some behind the scenes photos of the girls...
To read more on Black Hollywood's leading ladies, pick up the new ESSENCE magazine on newsstands now!
via essence.com
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