Kanyi Okeke
Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige Serves as Guest
Editor for the June 2012 Issue of Essence Magazine, as gives advice on style,
spirit and success, saying “you’ve got to make
you feel better.”
She will be a
headliner at the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, traded places with
editor-in-chief Constance White for the issue hitting newsstands on May
11.The 41-yr-old entertainer also shares with readers the
importance of loving and being true to oneself.
“I was never
really able to look at myself in the mirror until I began to hear God telling me
I was beautiful. Suddenly, other people started telling me I was beautiful, too,
because I had started believing it…”—Mary J. Blige.
