Quite Contrary - Zink Magazine

Mary J. Blige is the stuff that after-school specials and dreams are made of. BY VANESSA CRAFT

Interviewing Mary J Blige comes with a few hazards.  For a start, she has a bad reputation for being moody and difficult with the press.  Just ask Veronica Webb, who Mary threatened to ‘f*ck up’ after she wrote an unflattering article about her. Adding to this history, any questions for Mary had to be pre-approved by the record company.  And the Zink time slot is at the end of a seven-hour marathon of interviews and meet-and-greets. 

So when the conversation starts with several long, suck-up-all-the-oxygen yawns, it doesn’t look promising.  But then Mary giggles, and sheepishly says, “I’m saawry!” and everything is going to be just fine.  Things are different now.  Mary is different now.

Lounging in her hotel suite wearing a luxurious cashmere sweater and wool trousers, with immaculate hair and makeup and a diamond the size of an orange on her ring finger, Mary J Blige is working the hell out of the diva look.  She really has come a long way from her childhood spent under a cloud of abuse, molestation and poverty in the projects of Yonkers, New York. 

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