*Loni Love has opened up about her personal life and recent headline-making moments on “The Real”..
The daytime talk show co-host and comedienne addressed her recent breakdown over her weight loss during an interview with Madame Noire., and the criticism she received for saying Black women have piss poor dietary habits because they don’t know how to eat properly.
We previously reported… in a segment for the show, Love talked about being an ambassador for Weight Watchers and became emotional about her own eating habits.
“Let me tell y’all, I did not know how to eat,” she said before breaking down into tears. “Growing up in the projects, we just had to eat what we could,” Love added, NewsOne reported.
“I know it sounds funny,” she continued, “but a lot of women in the African American community, we don’t know how to eat because we grew up that way.”
Watch the full moment via the clip above — Loni’s breakdown occurs around 6:30.
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Love told Madame Noire of the backlash she received over the comment:
“I didn’t see any of that discussion cuz I was working on—I’m also the voice of “Bridezillas” so I was working on that. But I did hear about it. First of all, I never speak for every Black woman. If you go to my book, it actually explains how I grew up so my statement was for some women. Although, there were some women who were upset, there were a lot of women who understood what I was saying about accessibility capitalism has caused in the poor communities- that has caused us not to be able to eat clean. And not be able to eat the correct way. Which is why you see an obesity rate that is highest among Black females—more than any other race. Even with Black males. Black females have an obesity problem.”
She also spoke on Amanda Seales’s reaction to her breakdown:
But there was also another component about it, which was Amanda who didn’t understand because she’s new to the show. She didn’t understand. She personally called me and she was like, ‘Yoo…you were talking and the next minute you started crying.’ And it’s like, “Girl, that’s what we do on the show. It’s called “The Real.” It caught her off guard and that’s why you see the reaction that she had. She was like, ‘Do you want to do an IG?’ I said, ‘No, Amanda, this is a show. This is “The Real” and this is what we do.’ And like I said, she didn’t have time to come back and go, ‘Loni?’ We just had to get out. So, it is what it is.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Love addressed Tamar Braxton’s claims that she is the reason why the singer was fired from the show in 2016. As noted by thejasminebrand.com, Love allegedly wanted to be the only “ghetto” Black woman on the panel, according to claims Cookie Hull made to Comedy Hype.
Loni said of those claims:
“I do have thoughts about that that I addressed in my book. But I will say this, anybody that knows me, knows that I will not describe myself as a ghetto girl. I wouldn’t describe Tamar Braxton as a ghetto girl. I might say that we believe in the power of being ourselves. But ghetto girl?! I would never do that. And also, there’s a lesson in this. When you try to help people, you have to watch who you help. I’ve never been against any Black woman. My fans know that. That’s the reason why I wrote this book. When you read the book, you will see. I’ve been trying to get the truth out for years. But here, we dealing with this reality show type [mentality]. I do address that in my book.”
She then further explained her comment that there aren’t any plus-size fashion icons for Black women:
“When I said what I said. I said, ‘There are no plus size women that I know except for Ashley Graham of recent that are legends. Where’s our Naomi Campbell. They don’t put us on the covers of magazines. And that made a lot of plus size models mad. But I’m like, they’re not putting us on magazines. That last plus size woman I remember was—and I’ll probably get in trouble for this— was Mo’Nique. All I said was, ‘Where is our plus size legends?’ Because Black women been plus size for years. But they don’t give us a chance to be on the cover of magazines. Now, you might have your blog. You might have a couple of campaigns but I’m talking about where is the plus size Naomi Campbell for Black women. I’m not talking about Ashley, cuz ain’t Ashley White? So that’s what I was talking about…”
Love also explained why she made her boyfriend James Welsh sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
“I think an NDA (which is a non-disclose agreement) especially when you are a female that is making your way. And you meet somebody who is going to be in your life—it’s not about them. It’s about the people that are around them. And it’s not to question their friends’ character. But let me tell you something, when people need money, they do strange and odd things…. It was once we decided to go monogamous. And then I said, ‘You know what, I need to talk to you.’ It was just an honest, adult conversation. I know some people—celebrities— the minute somebody walk in they house, they’re like, ‘No, in order to do this…”
“Go down to Netflix. You can’t walk in the door without signing an NDA. And you may say, ‘You’re not a business.’ No, your life is your business. And it’s a lot of people that will make up stories and say certain things. So at least you have that to at least be some level of protection. Once we decided it was just going to be a relationship between he and I—and he was fine with signing it.”
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