What’s the 411? Mary J. Blige Is The Guest Editor For Essence’s June Issue

May 4th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

If you’ve forgiven May J. Blige for her Burger King commercial then you’ll be happy to know she’s guest editing Essence magazine’s June issue.

What’s amazing is this is Mary’s twelfth time covering Essence, and for once the story isn’t focusing on Mary’s tumultuous past but on the love she has for self and how that shines through in her personal style.

“I was never really able to look at myself in the mirror until I began to hear God telling me I was beautiful,” Mary said. “Suddenly, other people started telling me I was beautiful, too, because I had started believing it…”

That beauty shows through in Mary’s personality and her work ethic, according to Essence.

“She blew us away once again. Rolling up her designer sleeves, Mary got to work and left her imprint throughout the magazine on everything from fashion, relationships, money management and more. Plus, in the introspective story, ‘Take Me As I Am,’ Miss Mary reminds readers that the woman who’s most irresistible to a man is the one who loves herself.”

Amen to that. The June issue hits newsstands May 11. Will you check it out?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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  • Guestwhat

    Mary’s not qualified to give advice on self-esteem. She’s self-loathing. She really doesn’t feel worthy for her luck and the grace bestowed to her. So she spends her time paying penance at realizing she was destructive but not in all that truly formulated who she is. She isn’t even close to it. She thinks it was about abuse but she dismisses other indicators. Someone like her isn’t qualified to be counseling yet. She needs to evolve past simply lamenting about how far she’s come to realize she still could be further.

    People pat her on the head. Mary deserves more from her fans and more from people who just accept her baby steps and think she’s excelling. She’s better than she was but she still has self-esteem issues that she ain’t touching publically yet. For all of that, it reduces the complexity Black women need to confront about the organic properties of what makes life like this for us not understanding life that we live.

  • IllyPhilly

    OKAY, it was a big issue for her to be “shucking and jiving” in a commercial, but it’s fine for her to guest edit as a high school drop-out? 

    • UK lady

       That’s a bit mean. She proves that you can move on from on your mistakes and make something of her life. Also, I think she completed her high school diploma later in life.

      • IllyPhilly

         I wasn’t trying to mean, I’m just saying her dancing or singing or whatever she did in commercial was more of an outrage than that. I think some Black folks get mad over the wrong things.

  • Chanda

    Mary is on the cover of Essence every year but I’ll have to check it out though.

  • rzakia

    That Burger King commercial was not the best decision (the things we do for money) but I love MJB. She’s a beautiful woman and she is super talented. I’ll actully check out the issue.

  • L-Boogie

    Lovely as usual.  I am glad she is happy.

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