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8:51 am - 08/03/2011

SISTER,SISTER Star Wants Women To Consider Interracial Dating




Tamera Mowry walked down the aisle for the first time this past May when she married her longtime boyfriend, Fox News Correspondent, Adam Housley. Tamera was the beaming bride with her twin sister Tia by her side as they celebrated her big day. Tamera sat down with Essence Magazine to discuss her married life, being a good wife and the persistent question about her interracial marriage.


On the interracial question:

Well, I always find these questions so interesting, because I’m a product of an interracial marriage — and I never really grew up seeing color. I honestly realized that my dad was White when someone told me in middle school. They’re like, “Oh your dad’s White?” I’m like, “Oh, my gosh, he really is White.” I knew what race was, but it didn’t matter to me. Yes we are an interracial couple. The thing is we do still deal with that. People always question that. If anything, it hurts, but we do have more people supporting us then making stupid comments. We kind of just ignore it and focus on the positive. Love is love and a lot of times people might be in the situation they’re in because they put barriers up. Like some people only want to date a model, or an actor, or an athlete. You’re only limiting yourself. Open up to what’s out there because God made us all.



On what it means to be a good wife:

My mom was such an amazing example. She was a mom, wife, and a career woman. I just want to be there for my husband. I don’t ever want him to think that he’s not getting everything at home — love, attention, encouragement, a meal. I just want him to feel the best he feels at home. I think that’s what a good wife is. Someone who is very attentive to her husband.




Tamera and Tia will appear in a Style Network special, “Tia & Tamera” dishing on their wedding and Tia’s pregnancy, airing August 8th.

Would you consider Tamera’s advice and date outside of your race?  Have you done so already?


***what does him working at Fox have to do with their interracial marriage?  imo if you are going to hate on Fox, u best hate on CNN, MSNBC, and the rest of them.  Not a fan of cable news tbh....



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emesieremonde 3rd-Aug-2011 04:48 pm (UTC)
I didn't notice my mom was SIGNIFICANTLY lighter skinned (lighter than Rihanna) than the rest of my family until another black person brought it up.

Things like that happen all the time once you start going to school. As a little kid other kids point things out to you. Clearly that black child was from a household where skin shade had been discussed regularly and mine hadn't.
awkwardmumbles 3rd-Aug-2011 04:50 pm (UTC)
when i was in 2nd grade we brought out parents to school and someone asked why my mom was white (inner city school) and i started BAWLING like hysterical
emesieremonde 3rd-Aug-2011 04:54 pm (UTC)
omg bb lol im sryy. i shouldn't have laughed but....

hopefully u got over that :)
awkwardmumbles 3rd-Aug-2011 04:56 pm (UTC)
lol how roooood

apparently i used to make my mom walk behind me on the way to school omg :[

JSYK WE GO TO THERAPY TWICE A WEEK BECAUSE OF THAT INCIDENT
emesieremonde 3rd-Aug-2011 05:03 pm (UTC)
omg bb IM reallllllly sorry

wishing y'all good luck :)
awkwardmumbles 3rd-Aug-2011 05:07 pm (UTC)
lol i was jk about the therapy thing
quote_me_once 3rd-Aug-2011 04:55 pm (UTC)
lol irl. sorry bb.
wishingheart 3rd-Aug-2011 07:03 pm (UTC)
when i read this i automatically thought of that scene in mean girls "if you're from africa, why are you white?" lol, so sad.
nothingcleva89 5th-Aug-2011 04:25 pm (UTC)
"OMG, Karen, you can't just ask someone why they're white!"
fakevoices 3rd-Aug-2011 05:16 pm (UTC)
i didn't know i was black until i moved to north america tbh
emesieremonde 3rd-Aug-2011 05:18 pm (UTC)
idk you were born outside NA. Where at?
fakevoices 3rd-Aug-2011 05:23 pm (UTC)
lol i was born in england, but moved when i was little, moved to nigeria, then the bahamas, and now canada
probably going to move to scotland in a few years
emesieremonde 3rd-Aug-2011 05:26 pm (UTC)
jfc I need to leave the US once and for all....well not forever, but just for a couple years :) It's so suffocating living here tbh

/firstworldproblems
fakevoices 3rd-Aug-2011 05:28 pm (UTC)
lol
its not as glamours as you think, i was bullied a lot for being the new girl in every school i went to which is a lot
but ia, people should live in more than one country in their lifetime, it is cool and exciting
empirebird 3rd-Aug-2011 10:07 pm (UTC)
lol me too.
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