This is allegedly Idris Elba’s ex-wife, Kim Elba. She’s a celebrity makeup artist here in Atlanta. Kim Elba is very pretty, but she doesn’t fit the type of woman that I’ve seen Big Driis out with lately (at popular skin clubs like Body Tap, for instance).
If the woman I’ve seen Driis with (on several occasions) is his girlfriend, it means he’s gotten over his LSLH complex and realized that the true beauty of a sista does not lie in her skin color, but in her heart.
Here’s an excerpt from a British online newspaper article in which Idris describes being married – and divorced:
I ask if he has a girlfriend. “For a long time, I’ve been very private with my life, but I’ve just realized, you know what, who cares?” he says. “So yeah, I’m dating. I’m not in a full-time relationship, and I like that. I’ve done it all, y’know, been married, all that s***. I honestly think that marriage is outdated. I think people need to get married because they’re in love, not because it’s the “right” thing to do. I got married at 25 and was divorced by 29. You’re coerced by society, by family . . . by your religion.” (Source)
Since Big Driis is now 36, that would mean his marriage was over in 2001 – and not recently as the source would have me believe.
Here’s part of the email I received:
*Sandra, have you seen this?!*
hmph! I wonder what REALLY went on with Mr. and Mrs. Stringer Bell… like I said before, Mr. “Daddy’s Little Girl” musta finally let his girl out of the dungeon, cause Idris’ ex, Kim Elba, who is like a major makeup artist in ATL, has been spotted out and about all of a sudden in the “A”, NY and LA and honey— my girl (who works at the CVS in Atlanta) told me that she was shocked to read that article (i sent you) because apparently they looked so happy in their vacation picks from Jamaica last year….not to mention that the writer of that Times online article got his stuff ALL wrong…do people do any fact checking anymore?
Peachy Mean1
Anyway, shout out to loyal reader Peachy Mean for the flicks!
… I don’t get it, the botton line is that he’s single right?
Okay and ……….
Well since this is “news”……..Sandra can you make a medical minute out of this mess…………
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/hairband.asp
SHE LOOKA LIKE A MAN, BABY!
auntie…why are you obsessed with color?
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If the true beauty of a woman lies in her heart vs. her skin why do we have to talk about skin color soooooo much.
and this is news because…????
Auntie Sandra you have got to get over your color issues. A light-skinned black woman is no less black than a blue-black black woman becuz at the end of the day YT still considers either one a nigger. You are effectively perpertrating intra-racism and are making Willie Lynch smile in his grave.
you are so right MzTee – you pulled out Willie Lynch on us.
It’s sad some of us still have that mentality.
Why does everyone who has a LSLH chick have to be with her because it’s the “in” thing? It’s not just for appearances, maybe it’s because, gasp, they actually have a brain and some form of substance? I’m sure he, and other men, like women all flavors, so to point out significant others and such based on their appearances is kind of infantile. She may have had a good heart too. You don’t know that. Some may consider me LS with my long hair – does that make me less likeable and weaker to black people? Should my husband be critisized for wifing me up instead of a dark skinned chick? Because I’m just as good, if not better, than the next chick, regardless of her color.
Sorry, I just get mad when people are pointing that out.
Other than that, this is not news…
i guess i need to reread this post…i don’t get it, maybe there’s nothing to “get” lol…
she’s not cute
Who the hell is this broad?
Was she posting bad comments and got sent to the corner? Cause that’s where she keeps taking all these God damn pictures!
Lmao@ HunE!
Why does anyone get upset when Sandra posts anything color related, y’all know she’s just trolling for a reaction, don’t feed into it, its the Sandra Rose trap.
You’re right, karaz. I’ll chill…
If the woman I’ve seen Driis with (on several occasions) is his girlfriend, it means he’s gotten over his LSLH complex and realized that the true beauty of a sista does not lie in her skin color, but in her heart
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So are u saying his LSLH ex-wife, or any LSLH woman does not have true beauty in their hearts? Sounds dayum silly to meeeeeeeeee
Well she doesn’t look anything like the drop dead gorgeous Baltimore laywer I was led to believe was Idris’ ex wife. One thing I do know is that he is not recently divorced. I was aware of his divorce status something like two years ago.
DivaMama Says:
Some may consider me LS with my long hair – does that make me less likeable and weaker to black people? Should my husband be critisized for wifing me up instead of a dark skinned chick? Because I’m just as good, if not better, than the next chick, regardless of her color.
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I know what you are saying. I am light like Terry Crew’s wife only I keep my hair long My husband has to defend his blackness to why he married a white woman. Terry’s wife looks mixed as I do when I have a darker hair color. When my hair is ligher I look straight up white.