Feature Best known for her breakout role as Diamond in The Player’s Club, LisaRaye McCoy has been through the trenches a weathered her personal storms. From being a sex symbol, to the first lady of Turks and Caicos, McCoy has reinvented herself time and time again. This time, after going one of the hardest times of her life, McCoy says she’s back and better than ever!
EGL: You recently had a birthday and I know a lot of people were talking about your appearance in Jaheim’s latest video. Do you think that the words to that song really embody you and that you do get better with time? LisaRaye: Yeah, I do feel that way. I’ve been saying that for a long time, for the last couple of years actually. Its just something so rewarding and solid knowing who you are and recognizing your past and realizing that you don’t want to make those same mistakes and that you want to do better. So, grasping that and grasping the knowledge you know you need to get there is such a trip. It’s a journey. And it’s been good for me to stay open and want to receive it and now I’m really living. I’ve always lived and felt the grass grow under my feet, I’ve always been that type of girl, but now to say that I am a woman and mean it and embody it and hold it is like yeah! EGL: A lot of times we see in the media that life is all about being young and being beautiful, what are some of the things that you’ve learned growing older and through life that are way more important than those things that we see portrayed in the media? LisaRaye: Girl, just being healthy, happy and peaceful, and in that order. I don’t want to stress anymore than necessary than we have to in life anyway. Time waits for no one. We’re not just on this Earth to stay here forever so you’re going to get older. Do that gracefully and be healthy. I want my mindset to be peaceful, joyful and happy.
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