For the Mother’s Day edition of Jet, the weekly African American pamphlet magazine, Kim Porter graces its cover. She talks about her life beyond Diddy (you two were just pictured being boo’d up last week), her business ventures and motherhood. The cover line is hilarious: “Makes her own life” (yeah with Diddy’s money.) Like I said in the past she is an embarassment to black women. KIM, GET SOME COUNSELING AND A NEW MAN, IN THAT PARTICULAR ORDER.
I would like to know who at the Jet headquarters thought it would be a great idea to use this woman as an example of anything positive? Of all of the black mamas in the world to choose from–Jada, Halle, Mary J, Iman, Nia Long, Vanessa Williams, Nicole Ritchie, Kimora–this is what you come up with. Hell I would rather them have put Keishya Cole’s mother Frankie on the cover! At least that would be an encouraging story about getting past your demons in order to be a better mom. Kim is still being possessed by her demons: greed and stupidity. What is she going to teach her daughters about relationships and self-esteem?
And now I hear she is getting a reality show on Lifetime! This nonsense only gives hope to other groupies, gold diggers, NFL baby mommas, jump-offs and lazy women who just don’t want to work, that this triffling, settling for less behavior can get you something other than a new car, a Dior clutch and paid parking tickets. Using your uterus as a vessel to procreate in order to make money should not get you on the cover of a magazine, EVEN IF IT IS JET!
Some of you think that I am taking this too far, but watch in a month The Learning Annex is going to offer a class on “How to make being a jump-off a sustainable career.” You’ll see.
May 2, 2008 at 9:36 pm
… great article … could not agree with you more!
too bad there is such a big audience for magazines that deal with so much ‘trivia’ anyway …
thanks for your honesty & integrity in speaking the truth no matter what.
May 4, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Kim Porter is a terrible choice for the Mother’s Day cover of Jet. She has no self esteem staying witha man who has public affairs and children outside of the relationship. In one interview a few months back someone asked her if her son Christian knew he had another sister. Kim replied that her son has two new baby sisters and does not need to associate with the other one. What a horrible thing to say about an innocent baby. Kim Porter did not even address the child as a human she just said the “other One”. She shouldn’t be mad at the baby or baby’s mother because they had no obligation to her Diddy did. I would have rather seen Jada Pinkett Smith or Michelle Obama on the cover. Whoever put Kim Porter on the cover has poor taste. Just as the person who put Diddy and Kim on the cover of Essence o few months back.
May 10, 2008 at 2:40 am
i’ll pert briefly by stating that her reputation around atlanta is nothing worthy of the cover of this pamphlet. lest i say, a refined karrine stefans so purported.
May 10, 2008 at 3:41 am
I think the rule of thumb to be on TV is now being stupid, vapid and completely self involved. How about having someone on the cover who has accomplished something themselves.