Throughout the marriage of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith, there have been rumors or swinging, infidelity, and divorce, but the couple has defied all odds and have stayed together. At a time when 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, Will and Jada seem to have found the secret to making it last. Could it be that they don’t indulge their perfectly human jealous tendency? That seems to be the case because an incident occurred this week between Jada and a deceased rapper that would have made a lesser man turn into the green-eyed monster. But not Will! Find out what happened and more celebrity couple news in this week’s “Coupled Up.”
1. So this week, Jada Pinkett-Smith released a bunch of personal and family photos, and we also learned of a letter daughter Willow Smith penned to rapper Tupac Shakur when she was younger. In the handwritten letter, Willow asks Tupac to “come back so mommy and me can be happy,” suggesting that Jada had a difficult time accepting Tupac’s death. Now it’s no secret that Jada and Tupac, who met at the Baltimore School for the Arts, had a very strong connection that some assume was a romance. Jada has gone on record saying that was never the case even though they did have those feelings for each other. And it seems she’s explained those feelings to her daughter.
So on the surface there’s nothing wrong with Jada talking about her love for Tupac to Willow. But I will say it’s a bit odd, considering that Jada is still married to Willow’s father, Will Smith, yet is carrying strong feelings for Tupac and has allowed those feelings to go public. Will and Jada’s marriage seems to last because they don’t subscribe to the traditional idea of marriage, and I guess that includes remaining jealousy-free too.
2. While in Las Vegas to debut his clothing line Trukfit at S.L.A.T.E., Lil Wayne also had some personal company. Word is that he flew Karrine “Superhead” Steffans in to join him. Now, Wayne and Karrine claim to be friends after having a past fling, one that included Karrine ditching her then-husband Darius McCrary whenever Wayne was in town. But these two just seem a little too close for comfort in this pic for nothing to be going on.
If I were Dhea, Lil Wayne’s girlfriend that he proposed to back in February, then I’d be more than a little worried. Superhead didn’t get that name for respecting the relationships of others, and Wayne has enough babies spread around the country to make it pretty clear that he’ll catch any poontang thrown at him.
3. If you’re a fan of “Love & Hip Hop,” the original, then you’re quite aware that Fabolous refused to claim cast member Emily B as his woman, even though she had bore his child. But there was a little something I noticed about the album release party for Trey Songz‘s Chapter V, Fab not only attended the event with Emily, but also posed for a few photos with her! It also seems like the couple coordinated their looks too.
I guess Emily airing all their dirty laundry on “Love & Hip Hop” sort of shamed Fabolous into stepping up … but damn is Emily patient!
4. In other “Love & Hip Hop” news, Yandy Smith and Kimbella Vanderhee had a date night at NYC’s La Marina just a month or so after giving birth. Yandy partied with her son’s father Mandisi and surprisingly Juelz Santana was there with Kimbella. Despite her being pregnant, Kimbella and Juelz weren’t on the best of terms towards the end of last season. But you know, babies have a way of bringing people together.
Too bad both Yandy and Kimbella played into the assumption that women have to bounce immediately back after giving birth.
