Mary J. Blige celebrates 50th birthday with bikini pics, revealing dress: ‘Mary J Fly’
Mary J. Blige turned 50 this week and he or she celebrated in model.
The nine-time Grammy winner rung in her Jan. 11 birthday from a mysterious tropical location, the place she posed in a gold metallic bikini and an off-the-shoulder night robe that left little to the creativeness.
“I have to thank everyone for the overwhelming amount of love sent my way for this milestone birthday,” the “Real Love” singer wrote on Instagram Thursday. “Words can’t really express how much I appreciate you ALL! May God continue to protect you and yours, and bless you with all your wants, needs, and desires.”
Blige was feted with a digital celebration thrown by MeToo founder Tarana Burke, Yaba Blay of the #ProfessionalBlackGirl motion, Syreeta Gates, who created The Gates Preserve to archive hiphop tradition and writer-editor Karen Good Marable. Their web site To Mary With Love, is devoted to Blige’s “living testimony” and options loving voicemails from rappers Common and Method Man, Nas, Missy Elliott, alongside with written “love letters” and a slideshow of Blige’s love for thigh-high boots. The group additionally launched #ToMaryWithLove to extend the festivities on social media.
“MaryJFly,” she captioned one other picture of herself popping her hip on a sandy seaside.
Blige, who appeared solo within the pictures, is not too long ago divorced from producer Kendu Isaacs, whom she married in 2003. She filed for divorce in 2016, citing irreconcilable variations and requested the court docket to disclaim Isaacs $110,000 monthly in spousal help. In court docket paperwork obtained by People in 2017, Blige acknowledged, “I am not responsible for supporting [Martin’s] parents and his children from another relationship which he lists as ongoing monthly expenses” and claimed he spent greater than $420,000 on “travel charges” for a girlfriend.
Blige was ultimately ordered to pay Isaacs $30,000 monthly in non permanent spousal help, per court records and their divorce was finalized in 2018.
The exes don’t seem like on nice phrases — in October, Blige advised Self that regardless of initially praising Issacs for serving to her overcome a drug habit and despair, the credit score was given in haste.
“Well, when I look back, I see that we all want what we want. And we want it to be the way we want it to be,” she advised the journal. “I wanted a savior. I’d been hurting so long, and so much, and so bad.” She added, “he did not deserve that credit.”
Blige additionally advised Self that medicine and alcohol was a smokescreen “to cover up what’s really going on inside” including, “You’re taking drugs so you can go out and feel courageous, or go out and feel beautiful or whatever. You’re doing it to cover up something.” The singer additionally refused skilled assist, as an alternative selecting to manage on her personal.
The singer revisited her divorce in December throughout the Facebook Watch present Peace of Mind with Taraji P. Henson.
“It gets lonely and it gets sad,” mentioned Blige including, “..I’d rather be myself than to keep making the same mistakes over and over again.”
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