Jeannie Mai Explains Why She Plans to Take a Submissive Role in Her Marriage to Jeezy

Jeannie Mai has no desire to be the boss in her upcoming marriage to Jeezy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

According to Entertainment Tonight, The Real co-host talked about the roles she and Jeezy plan to take in their marriage with her co-hosts Loni Love, Adrian Bailon, and Garcelle Beauvais. She also clarified that being submissive in her context doesn’t mean she is “lower” than her soon to be husband.

“So, I’m gonna say right here, that I, Jeannie Mai, going in to my marriage — I want to submit to my man. Let me explain,” the DWTS contestant said. 

“When I hear this definition … submitting has a negative connotation. It means that you are less important, you are lower than that person that you’re submitting to. It usually can be like, you know, referenced as somebody who works lower than you, and that’s not what I’m referring to here.”

The 41-year-old explained that because she’s already accustomed to being in charge of so many aspects in her busy life and career, she’s actually looking forward to the idea of her husband taking the lead at home but understands that while this approach works for her, it might not work for others.

“I don’t want to lead in our household and in our marriage,” she continued. “I want him to lead, and I have all the essence of what I bring as a wife to make that decision, but that I love that my husband will be the man that leads. I like that structure in a marriage, and I look forward to that because girls — it’s tiring being the boss of me. It’s tiring leading all the time in my life.”

Jeannie also admitted that she has a tendency to be a dominant woman like her mother, and she doesn’t want that in her marriage. 

“I grew up in a household – my mom … she has a very strong force, and she took over a lot of decisions in the household, to the point that my dad, unless it was always going to be a fight, he was like, ‘You know what? Go ahead. Whatever you want to decide. Go ahead, and I’m just gonna do me.’ And that caused a wedge. And I can have that tendency. I’m just saying for me, I can have a tendency to follow like my mom, ’cause it’s what I grew up in, and I saw it.” 

The happy couple started dating last year and got engaged in April. Mai gushed over Jeezy, whom she described as the “love of her life.”