When Side Chicks Fight Back …And Sometimes Win
Is this the year of the side chick? Once upon a time, being a mistress was a shameful thing. But when Karreuche Tran found herself on a list of notorious mistresses, she publicly stood up for her mistress status.
And Karreuche isn’t the only one. In 2014, side chicks are fighting for their rightful place and sometimes they’re winning… Let’s hope this isn’t a trend that sticks.
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Ignorance of the law is no defense in a court of law, but Karreuche is trying it in the court of love. It’s been years since the Rihanna/Karreuche/Chris Brown love triangle began. But Karreuche says that she can’t be a side chick — because she’s not even sure what the term means. Does that defense fly?
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Amina Buddafly
If you marry the man you’re having an affair with, are you still the side chick? When “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” star Amina Buddafly married Peter Gunz while he was living with the mother of his kids, she may have been the first woman in history to make the leap from side chick to wife. And now that she’s adding a baby to the mix, her Hail Mary pass seems to have worked.
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Eniko Parrish
Cheaters have always been the side chick’s most faithful supporters. And Kevin Hart has gone out of his way to claim that his marriage to Torrei and his dates with Eniko don’t overlap — even though Torrei begs to differ.
What does Eniko have to say? Aside from a few passive aggressive Instagram posts, not much. Hiding behind Kev hasn’t saved her from the media backlash but it did earn her the next Hart ring.
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Angelina Jolie
In one of the boldest side chick moves ever, Angelina Jolie saw what she wanted and took it. The positive PR spin has been that these two super-attractive people belong together. And if her steadily-growing fan base is any indication, a lot of people seem to be OK with that excuse.
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Gisele Bundchen
Gisele didn’t date Tom Brady in spite of his ex Bridget Moynahan, but because of her. Before she found out that Bridget was pregnant with twins, Gisele said she was thinking about leaving Tom.
But she told Vanity Fair that finding out that he was going to be a father — to someone else’s kids — it inspired her to stay:
“I think it was a blessing, because otherwise I don’t think I would have known what he was made of, and he wouldn’t have known what I was made of.”
Well that’s certainly a new twist on an old classic.
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Camilla Parker Bowles
In one of the greatest PR moves in history, Prince Charles’ long-term affair with Camilla while married to Princess Diana became one of the greatest love stories of all time. In the era of the mistress, their story is about a man willing to give up the throne for the woman he loves — not about a marriage that fell apart because there were three people involved.
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Superhead
Should we credit Karrine Steffans for taking the shame out of the side-chick game? “Confessions of a Video Vixen” took being a mistress from down-low city to front street USA.
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Bria
When rapper J. Cole proposed to his girlfriend Melissa Heholt, his side chick Bria decided that if she couldn’t have him his girlfriend couldn’t either.
So she flooded Instagram with selfies of her with J. Cole — including shots where she looked suspiciously pregnant. No word on J. Cole’s engagement since…
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Joseline
Sometimes the oldest side chick move is the best. Stevie J’s protege Joseline just refused to go away despite the fact that Stevie was already Mimi’s man (and the father of her children). And in the long run, the move paid off. Joseline’s 15 minutes are still rolling and she’s getting married to the man she stole.
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Wacka Flocka’s Flame
The world may not know her name, but they’ll never forget how she tried to take Tammy Rivera’s place as Wacka Flocka’s wife on “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta”. As soon as word got out that Wacka married Tammy and that the two were scheduled to appear on the show, Ms. Anonymous started posting pictures of her and Wacka on Instagram.
But Tammy Rivera wasn’t that easily shaken and tweeted her own pics with Wacka captioned “Meanwhile, in the Flocka household…lol.” We have a feeling this fight has just begun.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia says she’s not a homewrecker because it was a question of timing. She says that Mashonda and Swizz Beats had been broken up for “some time” before they got together. Alicia hasn’t been clear on how long that was, but Mashonda seems pretty certain that it was roughly zero seconds. But even though the ink on the divorce papers was non-existent, Alicia sees those crucial moments as a free pass. Do you agree?
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Traci Lynn Johnson
We don’t know if there’s any side-chick behavior more frustrating than the “so what?” approach. But it seems to be working for Traci Lynn Johnson. She hooked up with Tiki Barber when his wife was pregnant, but she still doesn’t understand why she doesn’t have more fans:
“The people who keep saying all these negative things about me don’t know me at all. They just hate their life more, so it’s easy for them to hate me instead of dealing with their own problems.
The tabloids love to write about celebrity divorces. Everyone else in the country gets divorced or breaks up with their boyfriend and nobody cares. When things bad happen, they love to exploit us.”
And it’s just that attitude that has gotten Traci and Tiki dozens of offers for reality shows instead of a seat in the cheater’s hall of fame.
