Tameka Raymond and company sat down for a photo-op and interview with UPTOWN Magazine recently and she is giving us major style teas. Tameka talks being a single mother with a career, not spending money on frivolous things and of course, Usher.
On The Custody Battle(s)
According to Raymond, Usher filed for sole custody of their kids in January 2011. Nine months later, she filed for sole custody as a counteraction. She thinks she understands his reasons, including control and wanting the kids to move around as he does.
“He is a man very accustomed to having his way,” Raymond says. “This has nothing to do with how I parent. Trust me, I never will have a desire to keep a man away from his kids. I am not June Cleaver or head of the PTA, but I know I am a good mother.”
On Her Love Life
Raymond is a loving mother, however. The Irish twins are always playing in her bed. “I love it, but we can’t make it seem like there isn’t room for anyone else in here, right?” she laughs. Are there any candidates? “I am dating,” says Raymond, who keeps her body toned by practicing Pilates and yoga a few days a week. “It’s refreshing. I have not been single in a while. I got divorced and married in the same year. It was a run-on relationship,” she jokes. “But a lot of guys like to play games. I like a man that’s a boss. I am not the dominant one. But a lot of the ones with the right mind-set wear OshKosh overalls. And if they are not fly, I don’t like them.” She also has strict rules. “I don’t bring men around my children. They have never met an ‘Uncle Tony.’ The two that I did bring around, I married.”
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