OUR THICKETTE MO’NIQUE REVEALS IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF ESSENCE MAGAZINE THAT SHE WAS MOLESTED BY HER OLDER BROTHER FOUR TIMES!

In the October issue of ‘Essence,’ the Baltimore native reveals that she was sexually abused by her brother at the tender age of seven.

“I was molested by my older brother,” she tells writer Audrey Edwards during one of her most candid interviews ever. “And even when I confronted him and told my parents, he said I was lying, and nothing was really done.”

‘The Parkers’ star said that her brother molested her four times over the course of four years, using certain tactics such as candy to lure her into the bathroom.

Her parents, she said, were in disbelief, but she didn’t hold them accountable “because me and my brother were both their children, and I just don’t know the kind of position they felt they were in.”

However, the way her parents handled the situation left her bewildered.

“My father was very upset, but it never got mentioned again,” she added. “I’ll never forget my mother saying, ‘If it’s true, it will surface again,’ and I remember thinking, ‘Why would I lie? Why is there even an if in this?’ I was angry with them for so long, because I felt as if they should have seen what was happening.”

Mo’Nique’s alleged sexual abuse came full circle when playing her latest role as an abusive parent in Lee Daniels’; forthcoming film, ‘Push.’ Based on the seminal 1996 novel of the same name by Sapphire, the story is a graphic account of a young black woman growing up in a cycle of incest and abuse.

“My brother was a monster to me,” she commented. “When Lee [Daniels] would say ‘Action,’ I became my brother.”

Her brother, she said went on to serve 15 years in prison for sexually abusing another girl and never made amends for the abuse.

“He still acts like he doesn’t know what I’m talking about,” she vented in the magazine, which hit newsstands today.”So screw hurting your feelings. You need to get your feelings hurt, and you need to get some help.”

Mo’Nique, who serves as Guest Editor of the magazine, a special issue dedicated to plus-sized women, admitted to being nervous about telling her painful truth but felt it was her duty.

“It makes me nervous. It’s like, Oh, God, what will it do to him when people read this? And then another part of me is like, Goddamn it, it’s my obligation to let people know, and to tell women to watch their children.” (Source)

I COMMEND YOU MO FOR COMING OUT WITH YOUR STORY! THERE ARE SO MANY WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS AND THEY NEED TO HEAR YOUR STORY.

CHECK OUT THE MAGAZINE. THE OCTOBER ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO THICKSATIONAL WOMEN!

YES! THE QUEEN IS GOING BACK TO HER HIP HOP ROOTS!

Queen Latifah considered naming her new hip-hop album The L Word “just to mess with people’s heads.” The New Jersey rapper/actress has endured much speculation about her sexuality because she doesn’t discuss her personal life and played a lesbian in the 1996 film Set It Off. “L was gonna stand for love though or La,” she laughs. “Since people want to play games, I like to jab back sometimes just for fun, but I’m like, ‘Nah, that’s too much energy wasted.’ ”

Latifah calls the new album (due in December) “banging” and plans to hit the road next year. She’s been working with LL Cool J and Dr. Dre. “They pretty much did the whole album,” Latifah said during a small roundtable interview to promote her new film The Secret Life of Bees, which also stars Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Dakota Fanning and Sophie Okonedo. “My boy Kenny Flav did one track and I think might do two more. Missy [Elliott] and Swizz Beatz are the only two people I have left. But they’re mixing it right now.”

Latifah, whose last album, 2007’s Trav’lin Light, was a collection of jazz and R&B standards, says she “just about” wrote all the rhymes for it. “Dre helped me write some stuff. He wrote some stuff with me and Ludicris wrote a record for me.” Lyrically it covers a range of topics, she says. “A lot of love on there. People, dealing with people, how people do all kinds of things, but then you’re like, ‘You know what? They’re just people.’
“Just like the media,” she adds. “You read something in the paper and just when I start to get mad, I’m like, ‘You know what? They’re just people.’ People do stuff. People will let you down. They won’t be around, but hey they’re just people, what are you gonna do?”

The as-yet-undecided first single should drop within the month. And Latifah says since she jetted away for a break, she’s not even sure what the finished product will sound like. “I did all my parts and then I went on vacation. So they put people on it while I was gone and they’ve been waiting to talk to me to surprise me,” she adds (though she is certain Busta Rhymes makes a cameo). “I’m actually supposed to talk to them and find out who the hell is on that damn album. I’m sure there is no one on there I don’t like.”{Source}

I AM EXCITED TO HEAR THE QUEEN BLESS THE MIC AGAIN. RIGHT NOW WOMEN ARE DEAD IN HIP HOP! WE NEED HER TO STEP UP SO PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER HOW IT’S DONE!

ACCORDING TO PEOPLE MAGAZINE JENNIFER HUDSON IS NOW ENGAGED TO HER BOYFRIEND DAVID OTUNGA (PUNK).

“I can confirm that Jennifer got engaged to her boyfriend David on Friday night in L.A.” says the rep.Otunga, who is known as “Punk” from the reality show I Love New York 2, popped the question with a Neil Lane diamond ring on the Dreamgirls Oscar winner’s 27th birthday.

The couple, who have been dating less than a year, both hail from Chicago. (Source: People)

PUBLICITY STUNT MAYBE? THICKETTES YOU KNOW I THINK PUNK IS TOO PRETTY. LIKE “TERRY MCMILLAN EX-HUSBAND PRETTY” BUT HEY JEN IF YOU LIKE IT I LOVE IT! CONGRATS TO YOU THICKETTE AND I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.