Tina Knowles, Beyonce's mum has finally opened up on her marriage and divorce after 33 years of being married to Matthew Knowles. The 60-year-old designer was the keynote speaker at the Woman & Money Leadership Luncheon in Houston, Texas.
On divorcing at 58 ,she said
I was very sad. When you look at someone else, you look at them and say, ‘They’re attractive. They have a lot of good stuff
going on for them. They have no right to have low self-esteem. They
have no right to feel sorry for themselves.’ Well, it doesn’t matter who
you are, what you are, what you’ve done, what you have. You’re a
person; you’re a human being. And when something strikes you like that,
it takes the breath out of you. And my fight came back! After a while, I
let myself feel sorry for myself for a minute and then I said, ‘You
know, I’m so blessed to have all the opportunities that I have. And I
don’t have the right to feel sorry.’ I started telling myself this. continue...
I started reading my art books. I love art but I had never had the time.
I started traveling. I would travel with my daughter [Beyoncé] but not
to work! I would say, ‘No I’m not working.’ I had my girlfriend who
would make me laugh. I sent for her and she would come on the road and
we would go to museums, we would go to lunch and we would just laugh.
And I just really had forgotten how to live. I had just lost all of
myself so I realize now that part of the low self-esteem was, yes, being
58 and having to start over again, and the other part is that I just
lost myself. That I was so busy working and going and taking care of everybody else that I just forgot about Tina.
On finding love at 59
The whole thing about dating was the scariest thing in the world! I
would tell my friends, ‘Where am I gonna find somebody at 59 years old?
Where do you meet men? Where do you get them? And they’re all gone.’ It
was really funny so I just focused on myself.
Finally, a girl that worked with me said, ‘This guy I know wants to take
you out. He just thinks you’re hot!’ And I’m like, ‘Really?!’ So she
said, ‘Yes!’
My kids got me ready, and I changed clothes five times. I didn’t want to
be too this and too that.Well, I went out with the guy and he was a
very, very nice man and thank God he wasn’t my type because I wasn’t as
nervous once I met him. So I was like, ‘You know what, this is just like
friend time.’ But it was so good for my self-esteem to have somebody to
say, ‘You look nice!’ To give me a flower, to take me out. So I went
out on a couple of dates with him but I knew he wasn’t the one. But it
got me past that [point in my life.]
On hearing her husband was getting married again
I hear that my ex-husband is getting married. Now this is my family. My
ex-husband is my family. I don’t want to get back into that at all,
that’s not what I want. But it still hurts a little bit, right? It’s
still a blow to your ego. So I call my crazy friend Monica to take care
of me the week of the wedding.
She comes to LA and she says, ‘Tina, you gotta get out ..let’s go out!
Let’s go see some men!’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know where to find
‘em!’
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Tina Knowles, Beyonce's Mum Talks about her Marriage and Divorce
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