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While speaking at the Essence Festival over the long (and glorious) holiday weekend, recently wed reality star Kenya Moore opened up about finding love after 40. To be specific, at 46.

Kenya Moore

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“My husband is extremely supportive,” Moore said about Marc Daly in a conversation in front of a large audience. “He is always encouraging me. He’s my rock, he’s my protector. And you know, honestly, I thought it would never happen to me. You’ve seen me go through so many things on the show where I really felt in my quiet moments, ‘Is it true what they say’re saying? I can’t keep a man? I can’t find someone to really love me for me? Is it ever going to happen?’ I’m a 46-year-old woman and I’m a Black woman. Statistics show that over 44 percent of us never get married and that’s a real fact. So for me, I kept the faith and kept hoping and it just happened for me in a way I never expected it to, so it had to be God.”

What she had to say was both beautiful and encouraging, as many of us believe that when things don’t happen on a certain timetable, they may not come to fruition at all. But plenty of women have found true love after 40. Here are nine other Black women who did and their advice/lessons learned based on their experiences.

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