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Juanita Bynum’s 50th Birthday Bash
Prophetess Juanita Bynum held her 50th birthday bash last Friday night at the Georgian Ballroom in the Biltmore Hotel. All that ghettofabuless-ness was going on downstairs as I was upstairs in the same building during the B.o.B. listening party. I have never seen so many church folks in one place…well except at church. 
I bet you’re wondering why Juanita’s wearing that dayum wedding dress aren’t you? Well…apparently she explained to Essence that for her 50th birthday she was gonna face her fears and do things a bit differently:
One of the greatest moments of my life was the day that I married. That day was supposed to be the defining moment of my life when I would show the world that I had stepped into my womanhood. It was always the original intention of my dress and I refused to let it not be because it was made for me. So I wore it because I felt like someone had robbed me of that right. I waited so many years to walk in it and I wanted to give the dress the honor for which it had been made. My father told me to always face your fears head-on, and since this was the dress that is connected to the incident for which the whole world remembered me, I said that if I’m going to cross over I have to go back and stand in the same place.
In case you’re wondering, Bynum’s dress is the same one worn in her $1.2 million dollar wedding to Thomas Weeks, the same dude who beat her down in a parking lot then said he was the abused spouse. *sigh* Anway…the dress, valued at $65,000, is adorned with Swarovski crystals and took nine months to make. Bynum says she had to alter it since she’s lost 2 dress sizes since the wedding. She also made her own skirt to celebrate her half a century on earth. The front of the skirt consisted of photos of her; the right side of the skirt had photos of her mom; and the left and back were of her dad. Photos below:
Check out her full explanation over at Essence.
Miesha
January 28, 2009 @ 10:59 amshe actually is quite a beauty. when she showed up at the trumpets she was so regal and femme.
LilMissRed
January 28, 2009 @ 12:52 pmwhat the??!!! Its official-shes crazy
That ATLOne
January 28, 2009 @ 1:45 pmOk .. um yeah. That is crazy. Why would she even want to perpetuate that madness? What people will do to be in the limelight. It’s sad really.
Mr Say It Plain
January 28, 2009 @ 2:44 pmShe needs help!
ATLien
January 28, 2009 @ 3:46 pm@ Miesha ~ yes she is a very beautiful woman but I think she’s going through some thangs. As any normal person would after having their dirt placed in the limelight. Those pics of her at the trumpet awards didn’t help either…IMO
Tami
January 29, 2009 @ 10:16 amI hate to say this but she had that top on at the Trumpet Awards pics are on my blog page lol. I thought she was so grand lol
black ty bbay
March 18, 2009 @ 4:59 pmSee, this is one of the reason why brothers don’t want to be bothered. She is every meaning of the word phony!!!!
jermaine
April 3, 2009 @ 9:03 amShe’s class act that’s for sure
just broke and ghetto as hell..lol
ltanya
April 25, 2009 @ 3:16 pmGOD SAID JUDGE NOT THAT YOU MAY NOT BE JUDGE DO PEOPLE HAVE ANY THING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT ANY BODY GOD IS LISTEN TO EVERY THING YALL SAY ABOUT HIS CHILD AND EVERY TIME YOU PUT YOUR MOUTH ON PEOLE YOU PUTTING YOUR MOUTH ON GOD CAUSE YOU DONT KNOW WHY SHE DO WHAT SHE DO AND WE DONT KNOW WHY YOU HAD TO GO THOUGH WHAT YOU DID BUT YOU CAME OUT JUST LIKE SHE DID AND IT WASNT MAN THAT BROUGHT YOU OUT IT WAS GOD SO WATCH WHAT YOU SAY BEFOR YOU SAY IT CAUSE GOD CAN PUNISH YOU FOR PUTTING YOUR MOUTH ON HIS CHOSING PEOPLE JUST PRAY FOR THEM AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU OKAY ,GOD IS WATCHING YOU ONE WAY IN CHURCH AND ANOTHER OUT WHO FOOLING WHO NOT GOD, REPENT WHILE YOU GOT THE TIME,LOVE FORGIVE WHILE YOU GOT THE TIME TOMORROW NOT PROMISE,MISS LOVE
Ms. Cleo
October 24, 2009 @ 10:25 pmItanya, I suggest that you open that dusty book you take to church on Sundays called a Bible. You are referring to Ps 105:11-15, but evidently you have NOT read it in its complete context. The anointed ones were the Kings.
Context is the key to understanding Scripture, but the misguided have been taught to tear verses such as this out of their context by the very people who use this tactic to exploit them. This very method of twisting Scripture serves both to enrich the pulpit pimps AND keep the flock from discovering their error.
“Harm” here does NOT mean saying something TRUE about someone, whether in leadership or not.