Gabrielle Union Talks Having Kids, Being Frugal And More
My Ovaries Are Taking Geritol: Gabrielle Union Talks Having Kids, Living Below Her Means And More
There’s something about Gabrielle Union that I really like. Of course I don’t know her but she comes across as pretty authentic, especially within the past few years. She brought that same realness to her cover story interview with Uptown Magazine where she talked about her nude photo leak, her ideal super heroine character “The Baddest Bitch,” and being ok if she never has children. Check out a few excerpts and shots from the interview below.
The character she’d create for herself using the resources of her own production company, Stew U
“‘Um, did you just create a superhero called the Baddest Bitch?’ Yes,” she jokes over wine and cookies at Bar Pleiades, inside of the rakish Surrey Hotel on New York’s Upper East Side. “She’s got Sciatica and you know…thinning edges. And she fights…crime.”
What we can expect from “Being Mary Jane”
“She becomes obsessed with his new relationship and [questions] why it’s not her,” Union says of her character, who is social media-stalking her ex-boyfriend and his pregnant girlfriend. “Mary Jane starts to ask herself some hard questions. And she’s not liking all the answers. She can’t handle the truth. Not at all.”
Source: Uptown Magazine
On her cooking skills and providing [in LA]
“[My] collard greens have pork, not this new age Negro-like turkey neck shit, and [for my] honey cornbread, I add, a half a thing of honey to the Jiffy mix and I like to eat it raw. That’s when I’m like, ‘Am I depressed?’ There’s at least some self-respect with [eating] brownie batter, or you know, cake batter.” She also purchased a home in California (she is betting that the filming of her series will shift to Los Angeles). “I feel like Dwyane provides for us in Miami and I should provide for us in L.A. I bought a really great house and we’re remodeling. What I wanted is really in Bel-Air, but I have a deep Valley budget, so I’m there,” says Union of her real estate realities. “I got a lot of what I wanted, but I had to reevaluate my priorities.”
Source: Uptown Magazine
Living below her means
“I live so far below my means that if the career was taken away, I could get a job based on my level of education and my job skills, and I could still afford what I have. I plan ahead for the destruction, my financial ruin,” she laughs. “I might borrow some hot shit, but you’re gonna come to my house and be like, ‘What happened to that dope bag that cost as much as a home?’ I borrow that. I give it right back.”
On having kids
“I think my brain and my heart are screaming baby fever. My ovaries, however, they’re coughing up dust. Yes, it’s in my heart and in my mind, and we’ll see if my body catches up with that. I have really awesome stepkids, so I feel equally as fulfilled. I’ve lasted 42 years without having a human being come from one of my orifices and I feel okay and fulfilled and happy. If it does happen, it’s a miracle—a medical miracle at least. I mean, we’d love to. We’ll see what my ovaries say. Cause right now they’re taking Geritol.”
Source: Uptown Magazine
