00:00as males get older we become more distinguished for lack of a better word and for females it's
00:11more like y'all get names like cougar and auntie and things of that nature they count y'all out
00:16way too early man because if angela bassett is is a testament to what an older woman
00:22more mature woman can be man then i want to go that route what's good y'all this is method man
00:30right here and this is my essence uncovered my essence stays covered though but this is my
00:36essence uncovered yeah i'll be good having an essence cover mean to me when i get one i'll let
00:45your ass know this the digital cover the physical copy magazine that i grew up on that would mean
00:51this is this is great i love the fact that you guys even thought of me for this and i am truly
00:56honored i've won a grammy and i recently got my first acting award and that was from the n-double-a-c-p
01:03image award i covet that award more than the grammy any day because that came from my audience my
01:11people and they love me and i'll take that over anything so for essence after all these years of
01:17me being in the business to be here right now speaks volumes volumes to my journey as well as
01:26you know the classiness of this magazine it just got a little bit more classy yes
01:32you can't do both i tried it and it didn't work out for me that's why i took a long hiatus from
01:46acting or acting took a long hiatus from my ass let's put it that way there were shows being missed
01:52of course studio albums not being made because i was way more into my acting than music i haven't met
01:59one person that's acting and singing and they're doing both and it's working for them with the
02:05exception of jlo because jlo does every thing she's the best at it don't at me
02:10i was in a group that meant a lot to its audience we never compromised ourselves and they respected
02:18that so why not 25 26 years from there still have a career because you know you can't pay the buck i mean
02:26i've always been myself so and nothing's changed so the audience should still be there and we're
02:32blessed to still have the audience there that's all i can say
02:34how important has physical fitness been to my overall well-being when i started um big depressed
02:42insomnia a bunch of things going on for me it was if i'm going to get my mind right my body might as
02:47well be right why you know exercise the mind and not exercise the body does it make sense it was just a
02:52transition for me i feel like if i can do it anybody could do it
02:55you
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