Ever since Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin jumped the broom back in 2012, folks have been critical of the Think Like A Man star’s outfits. While Good’s been in the entertainment business since she was a kid, her critics seemed to expect the sexy actress to overhaul her wardrobe once she married Franklin, a Seventh Day Adventist minister.
“A lot of people came for me, and it was really hard to process,” Good said during an ESSENCE Festival empowerment panel on love and marriage.
Though Good’s been saved since she was 12, the flack she received from her fellow Christians hurt.
“It kind of made me upset with the church for a while. People don’t know what they do, but you have to love them regardless,” she said. “But you have to own your truth.”
Her husband agreed. In addition to being a minister, Franklin has been in the entertainment business for 18 years. The former Colombia Pictures executive said the problem is that some religious folks are just too judgmental.
“So many people try to live by a label, but that’s not the box God put us in,” he explained. “Who we are is not defined by a box. When I live by your expectations of what I should do, then I limit who I am and then I become depressed because I can’t be my true self.”
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SOURCE: ESSENCE
Britni Danielle
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