Longterm couple Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade were all smiles and holding hands as they headed for a romantic dinner date at a restaurant in Beverly Hills on Monday. Gabrielle, 45, recently spoke about using her “authentic voice” instead of her fake voice to get what she wanted.
The Being Mary Jane star said she used a “dumb-ass special voice” during her early days in Hollywood. She said she rehearsed the voice daily in hopes of impressing people during auditions.
But she says more doors opened for her when she stopped being fake.
“When I spoke in my most authentic voice, I got what I wanted — I got what I deserved,” she told Elle Canada. “And I’m 45. I think I’ve been in this business 22 years using that dumb-ass voice that I thought was helping me, and I’m sure it did at certain times. But I wonder how my career could have been different if I had let that real voice out.”
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She means she stopped using that fake ass white girl voice and just kept it real. Ok, good for you Gabby.
I refused to comment on Dwayne’ s outfit.
*scrolls back up* I don’t blame you. ?
What in the orthopedic crazy camel toe shoe wearing hell is on Dwayne’s feet???
I’m glad Gabby now feels comfortable being herself. If she couldn’t trust her own voice how could anyone else trust her…
Giiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlllllllllllllllllllllllll
Longterm couple…LMAO
They both said lets put on some shoes that don’t match…
I cant stand them as a couple! ughhhh
Her “white voice” or “professional voice” majority of black folks have one…so the people on the other end don’t get intimidated know it’s a black face on the other end of the call…
Not Giiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlllllllllllllllllllllllll? LOL. We used to say that in 7th grade after the junior high dance. I memba Conrad danced with me and then kissed me in a corner. Yep, the blue light was on and eerything. Umph, umph, umph, I went way back and ain’t nobody even ask me to go there. I just had a flashback of when life was innocent and pure. LMAO!
LMAO…he would NOT have left the house with that WHOLE get up on had she really cared about him JK
He wants to play football now??
Gabby is definitely a head case and I am not a psychiatrist so I won’t get into her obvious mental issues. Anyone ever notice how she always has that mental look on her face? The one that says: “I’m okay, you okay?” I’m okay, you okay?” Her face is never relaxed and genuinely happy. It’s like a deer in a headlight look that says “I’m okay, you okay?”
As long as her inner brain otherwise known as an acting coach keeps lying to her telling her (1) that she is an actress and (2) that speaking through closed teeth while trying to act will someday garner her an Oscar, I would say it’s a safe bet to say she is still acting fake.
She’s very annoying.
She also got more out of d wade when she started eating azz…
I can’t listen to this hoe
I just love her! As for Dwayne, he looks like a (Thunder cat) dressed like that. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/15962b6c8007be26235bd1dfb3ecf91b2b001b535355ee0ee061acf70b7199b7.jpg
Anthony Anderson sound different at time…so does antonio fargas. Thats all i got
Okay???? Maybe she feels that if he wears crazy outfits like this no one else will want him….
D-Wade couldn’t wait to get out of Cleveland and put on some all whites and sock shoes, lol. He put on one of those Miami Vice Heat jerseys and was like, “I’M HOME!”
LOL those do look like his shoes
Gabby(Whom I worked with in a DMX movie) is part of my second favorite couple under The Smith’s.
Well his pants are advertising his goods so that’s going to get more attention
LOLLOLLOL!!!!!!!! This is true…
yawnsss.
Antonio Fargas? I love his ugly ass!
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What is this ding bat talking about?
Not Conrad ?
Right! My husband can get dressed, and I look at him a certain way…back in the closet he goes ?
Well good for her..?
Cuz I’ve been using my special dumb@ss voice all my life …been cashing these special dumb @ss checks BECAUSE of it too.???BYE GRL.
When is he going to come out the closet? Gabby is an annoying person.
Stopped being fake? I wasn’t aware that there had been a cessation of her fakeness.
I Cant listen to a word that comes out of her annoying, scheming mouth. Let’s just see how long she stays with Wade after his career is over.
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They look like some riding pants I had in my summer camp days. He can’t shift his marbles in those pants.
Excuse me Sandra Rose sorry to bother you … but can you please help me with what real voice is she talking about ??
Those ninja turtle feet shoes Wade is wearing annoys me as much as Gabby does. Did she quit acting and became a philosopher?
so true i call it the Becky Voice
She is just so uninteresting. There is nothing about her that makes me say yes I wanna watch this show or see this movie because she’s in it.
You are correct. I also noticed that most people have a different voice depending on what they are doing and whom they are talking to. Even YT. They( white males) try to sound intimidating on the phone then when you meet them they look like little fat rudy poos.
Gabby beautiful and all i never get into any of her shows ………..she seems mean girl issue to the core
Was this before she and Wade were married? Or after? Just curious ? But she looks good!
oh please she’s still a fake shallow heffa ,she’s always looking for validation and acts as if what she has to say is manna from heaven
Gabrielle Union is a beauty. People are unnecessarily harsh on her. She started off playing younger than her age in white teen movies, but she also did some black movies playing her age, and even Bad Boys 2 in which she was stunning. That’s a blockbuster movie. Is using a white voice what she means? I never noticed that she did. Does she mean she was typecast as the beauty, cheerleader, or mean girl? I think she’s had a great career. She’s no Viola Davis. She should be proud.
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Is she talking about that dumb valley girl voice some black women use to gain acceptance?
I think everybody (all races & both sexes) uses a professional voice versus their normal or ratchet voice in professional environments.
Yes, that one.
My grandfather would have me call businesses on his behalf and be sure to use my “white voice”!
Gabrielle Union not only has admitted during a TV interview that she is a whore she also admitted in a TV interview to being a “mean girl”. I don’t believe any amount of head therapy has changed any of her deep rooted character flaws.
Got it.
Naw, Gabby – I call BS, Bih, because ain’t no way in the fugg you “authentically” believe it’s cool for your man to be strolling around in some tight ass nut huggin’ jodhpurs w/thong-boots and glossier lips than yours. Kindly sell that shat to somebody else.
I had to scroll back up to look at his pants.?
I really wish men would walk away from this super tight pants fad.?
Hate his shoes!!! I hate toe socks and mittens. I hate anything that causes separation…lol. Racist shoes, socks and mittens…lls.
I got a problem with a heterosexual men wearing clothes that can show off a dick print……That chit is for my eyes ONLY…….lol
Look how limp his hand is while she’s holding on tight
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everytime she has a personal epiphany does she really have to share it with the entire world.
I just had a vision of Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas in those pastel suites, and in the air tonight playing in my head ? ??
Hell nawwww….. not panthro from thunder cats ???
lmaoooo
I read this in her dumb azz vc!
Now if only Janet Jackson and Tisha Campbell would follow suit….
Yes, the one Tisha Campbell uses…it makes me cringe…I don’t trust people who can do that for that long…not to be trusted
I would say before…
lol
I couldn’t watch Martin because of her.
If it’s big, ain’t nothing you can do to hide that print.
Yes…it’s very suspect
Bet you that’s his blouse.
Yes. Unfortunately.
Lol right…you will get more respect and get more than likely get whatever the call was handled without incident …shameful that’s what we have to do but it’s reality
Most do LOL
Lol…racist shoes
Love Gabby.
Hate he with D-Wade.
It helps others.
Well, you have to admit before the real work can be done.
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It’s not her voice that annoys me, it’s what the voice says that is irritating half the time.
LMAO
Post about jarule out there rallying with nycha about no heat or hot water saying they living in a 3rd world country ? but aint spk on that fyre festival lol he trying 2 make a name for hisself he wanna be up there with jay z, puffy & ofcourse 50 by any means lol
What dik print?? I magnified my screen to 120% to see if I could see it..and NOPE…..sooooooo…..maybe he has it tucked??
hate his shoes….love hers…..the blouse is still out for debate….
Exactly. Mother always says to me, Its amazing how you switch up…just like that. I’m like we gotta be able to adapt quickly. it ain’t hard at all.. LOL
Like How I speak with her is ya know proper but if I see my friends, I go back to IN MY ZONE Comfy voice…LOL
No D-Wade…. Love you Tho! And some thing about her I just never cared for, guess because she was fake.
I love that she has a light skin mentality. YES.
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Are you saying she’s still using her fake voice? Lol.
I loooooove her FLAWLESS haircare line. My natural hair CRAVES her masque.
& May perception be on point from now on! ???Im me, Im nice
I prefer her fake personality….
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She never stopped being fake.
I agree. It’s something about her.
She’s such an idiot. With an idiot husband. Two self absorbed ridiculous idiots. How a court lets this idiot raise someone else’s kids is testament to how money even buys courts. Their mother can’t be worst than this idiot.
If Wade was my ex I wouldn’t even want my kids around this unethical mean fake shallow snob who leveraged his womanizing into a ring. The ridiculousness she writes in her books putting their bedroom life on blast is not proper stepmother material in my book.
Don’t feel bad that this idiot doesn’t include his break baby in the family photos because I’m sure the break baby mama doesn’t want her child around that idiot.
LOL
She always chooses the worst shoes for him. His feet always look ridiculous. Good lord, they try too hard to be fly.
Like I said, she’s an idiot.
Exactly. But she’s an idiot misguided into believing she’s a role model for sisters spewing this and other ridiculousness. She’s so delusional. She can speak however she wants to speak because she’s a kept baller’s wife, stepmother, and for the most part a retired actress who doesn’t have to interview for jobs anymore.
Omg so true. Just scrolled down and saw your comment. Had I seen your comment before I made mine upthread, it would have made a co-sign. For a second, I thought I was being harsh, now I know I’m not.
LOL!!!!
He dresses too metro for me. If your clothing makes me question your sexuality, then its definitely not a good look.
What exactly is she saying here? That she’s done using her “talking to white people on the phone” voice and will now use her everyday ebonics? It’s gon take more than that for her to not be fake. Girl bye.
LMAO
All damn day.