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Angela S. Holcomb, author and leader of the now deserted “Wifed Up Movement” has been accused of fabricating her marriage and photoshopping pictures.
A former fan took to Facebook earlier this week to out the self-proclaimed femininity coach, saying she faked a marriage to gain followers and used images of a man she wasn’t married to in order to promote her business.
“This “wife coach” and creator of the former Facebook group, “Wifed Up Movement” with over 10k members, faked a marriage for over two years. She stole pictures from a guy she dated (she dated short term) social media pages, cropped them and used them to carry out their imaginary marriage,” Facebook user Hassan Amiri Cleveland Bey explains.
The accusation includes screenshots of Angela’s detailed account of how she met her husband, along with a badly photoshopped photo of her and her husband.
Holcomb claimed she met her husband in Vegas in 2012, and he immediately became fond of her–gifting her with 2 VIP seats to a Jay-Z concert twenty minutes after meeting her. The couple allegedly eloped in Cuba in 2016, and their “marriage” became the foundation of her movement and her book, 21 Days To Feminine Magnetism: Your Guide To Getting #WifedUp.
Since the allegations hit the net, the man at the center of the photoshopping scandal told her former and current fans that he hadn’t had contact with Angela in years. He wrote, “The info you have all received is about 97% lies. We did meet (definitely not the way she described in a post I saw below), dated briefly and that was it. We haven’t had any contact in years.”
Angela finally responded to the backlash, saying that she apologizes for “how my lie about my relationship status has made you feel,” adding “any other allegations are rumors.”
Continuing, “My relationship status did not sell my book or anything else. I offered the knowledge and experience I have did. I stand [by] that. And regardless of my own status I have made it work in my own life–twice.”
She also encouraged those who can’t move past it, to be free to move on to other platforms. And she thanked those who had supported her through it all.
Selling relationship hope to desperate single woman has become a multimillion dollar business, and the feminist in me wants to support a Black woman getting a slice of a pie that is taken up by Steve Harvey-types.
But the foundation of any solid company should be honesty, and because Holcomb didn’t lead with that, the backlash is warranted and called for.
