Archive for August, 2010

Former American Idol Fantasia preforms at the Gospel Music Festival

Fantasia has been in the news over the last couple of months due to her relationship with her married boyfriend Antwuan Cook.  By now you probably heard about the lawsuit, the suicide attempt and the two of them moving in together.

Someone, anyone please tell me why a woman would get involved with a married man, and short of being a completly retarded individual, Fantasia has to know this will not end well. Rather than shy away from the media, Fantasia has stepped forward to discuss the affair because that’s what you do when you’re caught having an affair with a married person!

In a recent interview Fantasia tells Vibe that she feels her “African and more ethnic features” played a role in the coverage she received from the mainstream media regarding her affair with her married boyfriend as opposed to the coverage Alicia Keys received.

Yes, I do. I really feel like it does. I was on Nancy Grace, CNN, every gospel station and in every magazine and every newspaper. It was on. You would have thought I was the President or something.

She said she wasn’t surprised though because she has had to deal with it since her “Idol”days.

“I’ve battled and have had to deal with that before. Lord forgive me and I don’t want to offend anybody but when [I did Idol] it seemed like everybody there was Barbied out. Slim, long hair, light eyes, light-skinned. And here I come with my dark skin, full nose, short hair and full lips — it was hard.”

“They never put me in those magazines [featuring] the red carpet. Everybody there has long hair and everybody is bright-skinned, and I was like, ‘But wait a minute. They never gave me that.’ That bothered me. And then I tried hard to find people to dress me and they still would not put me there [in those magazines].”

“One day I was like, ‘that’s okay’, but I had to get to that point. I am a dark-skinned, full-lipped sister and it’s all right. Brown is in baby, and it ain’t going anywhere.” —

Fans or not fans of Fantasia, but this had nothing to do with the color of her skin…NEWSFLASH…you broke up a marriage!! Honestly it is my opinion that the media goes way too soft on cheaters and those who facilitate the cowards who cheat. But maybe that’s just me..

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