Celebrity oversharer Jada Pinkett Smith is once again in a sharing mood. The 46-year-old actress, who has been with her husband, Will Smith, for over half their lives, Instagrammed her insight on relationships.
On Saturday, Jada posted a happy family photo with Will, his son Trey and their daughter Willow. In the caption, she observed that, “I’ve been watching a lot marriages dissolve around me. It’s been really painful. Marriages change.” She went on to elaborate, “Sometimes they need to be reimagined and transformed. Sometimes they are simply over … but either way, I pray that folks going thru this painful transition find the patience and the love within to not throw the ‘babies’ out with the bath water.”
If that post didn’t give you enough to read into, the next day, she posted a “pillow talk” video on the ‘Gram discussing forgiveness. In the clip, she revealed:
“It’s been a deep journey for me because I’ve had to look into the shadows of my own heart and understand how I’ve hurt other people and forgive myself for any wrong acts that might have committed or any pain that I might have caused other people.”
She went on to say that understanding herself gave her the “power to forgive other people” and stated that, “None of us are perfect, we’re in this together, learning how to love.” And, if that wasn’t enough, the clip was accompanied by an enigmatic caption, where Jada says, “It’s all a delicate process where I also had to realize that just because my heart may embrace and forgive… doesn’t mean that person should be standing beside me.”
Are these posts alluding to Jada and Will’s relationship, or is Jada referring to someone else? It’s hard to tell, although some believe that one of the dissolving marriages is that of the couple’s close friends Tisha Campbell-Martin and Duane Martin, who are in the throes of a potentially messy split.
Jada and Will have already acknowledged that they don’t refer to themselves as a married couple anymore, but declare that they have an unbreakable relationship. I really want to know what brought about the reflections on forgiveness, even though Anna Faris described it better in Just Friends. I hope all’s well in the Smith household.
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I hope for the best for her, but somehow everything she does lately is just TMI! Take a break from social media.
I believe that she and Will have already split and are simply waiting for a decent time to speak about it
This was on Blind Gossip a while back. Given all she’s saying,,,,it makes sense. I bet it’s true.
Bingo. They have had problems for years.
Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Pretty sure it’s higher than that in Hollywood. The fact that they don’t refer themselves as a married couple makes me believe that they are divorced (quietly). JMO.
Part of the reason I’m 40, in a serious relationship, but NOT rushing down the aisle, is because of how common divorce seems.
I’ve been getting the vibe that Jada an Will have secretly divorced, or are really close to splitting up
Have a friend, after 30 years of being in the same relationship, who is getting married. Both live and take care of their elderly mothers and will probably not live together after they are married. For some it is a legal thing. My daughter’s fiance died and she did not have any legal rights to anything. Luckily his family included her in all the decisions (even though they had lived together for 5+ years). The only reason my daughter would have gotten married was to be able to provide health care for her fiance because his work did not.
I don’t get the need to put all this out there publicly. Other than being desperate for attention, why would someone in the public eye not cherish the privacy of their family relationships?
She looks good though.
Yeah, she’s really oversharing, which to me always indicates insecurity. I tend to think she’d be better off talking this through with a therapist vs posting on IG.
She does look really good. Love the family photo, too.
I think Jada has a very high horse on which she sits.
I liked the first few episodes of her show and then the narcissism and over-sharing got to be way too much. Willow would try and say something and Jada would make it all about her. Every time.
I also think that the Smiths are still Scientologists. Will often squeezes in some aphorisms into his videos that are very Scientology-esque.
On a side note, Willow is the only celebrity kid who I think could make it as a model on her own, without the nepotism. She is stunning.
I don’t believe Will & Jada are recognized as full blown Scientologists by the Scientology community, they are definitely Scio-friendly and sent their kids to Scio-schools, they’ve definitely taken Scio-courses – but I’m not convinced they are officially Scientologists.
I read a lot of Scientology stuff and follow Tony Ortega’s Underground Bunker and that is the impression I get (Will & Jada are not generally discussed at all).
Doesn’t it kill you that some celebrities think that every thought they have has to be put out there on social media? She thinks she is some kind of genius. Sheesh!
I know lots of non celebs who are the same way on social media. There’s something about it that either draws in the narcissists or brings it out in people. One woman I know posts more in a day than I do in a year, seriously. About things that make me wonder why she thinks anyone even cares, lol. Like how she’s a master at folding her fitted sheet.
You are so right. I have a friend who posts things about a dozen times a day.
I know people who put EVERYTHING about their lives on social media. Some of these people must be really full of themselves to think anyone gives a damn, or they must be really,really bored with nothing else to do
Same here – this one posts big long paragraphs, usually about some meaningful life lesson or parenting lesson she learned just that hour. EXHAUSTING. I’m about to snooze her because it’s getting on my nerves.
I think she sees herself as some kind of uber evolved, enlightened woman. She seems to think it’s her job to share her wisdom with the world now, with all the social media posts and her Facebook show. She’s been married a long time, but that’s probably because she was willing to put up with s*** most women aren’t.
The thirst is strong with this one.
Right! Not every marriage is a special snowflake. Get over it and move on.
I try not to get irritated with her but why does she think that she has it do much more together than anyone else that she can be advising us plebes on how to live our lives???
Mmmm-ummm — well some people’s love may not be quite as strong as Smith love now; is it? Some folks have certain standards and will not tolerate infidelity or indiscretion. They refuse to put on a stoic face while offering their higher level que sera sera zen sensii posits while their lover ruts with the next beautiful just-legal costar because Method. Her pontificating to the masses as the sage OG brings to mind cries of no collusion no collusion. Say it like you mean it often enough and it’ll come true. Oh puh-leeze woman take your kids to Costa Rica or go visit your mom. There will be enough wealth that none of the descendants of your super union will ever need an education.
That’s the only thing she always talks about. How it’s so hard. How they make it work. How it’s so great. How they fight to stay together. How its’ so awesome, how it’s so tricky. How it’s so easy. How they are so in love. How love goes through stages.
Get another topic already, Jada!
You have to have some really F’d up things happen to you to reach Jada’s perspective. I feel her & I respect that she can articulate it to the masses. Lemonade touched me in the same type of way. Ideas about marriage, infidelity, failure, forgiveness, family, & unconditional love. You don’t speak on these things unless your heart has been broken, you’ve been cheated on by someone you love deeply & you want peace. Personally I dig it & it helps to know I’m not alone.
Was anyone asking for his advice?
I hate it when celebrities pontificate to the “masses”. They talk in vapid pablum-speak that sounds like some inane self-help book written by a Deepak Chopra wannabe. It just ends up pissing me off because they’re not down in the trenches struggling to pay medical/dental bills, mortgage, groceries and find enough time between working long hours and doing housework to even sit down for a serious relationship talk. It’s all well and good to sit on your high horse with millions of dollars in the bank and naval-gaze to your heart’s content but live the real life for a while and you’ll realize how f*cking easy you have it.
She also loves to remind us of her close personal relationship with another venerated veteran of OG hip-hop royalty with whom she finagled the role of 15-year-old eager hanger onner and Tupac’s No. 1 muse. However, by her own account he also actively recruited his sessual partners every elsewhere but from her. Nevertheless this Super Pac relationship transcended mere pleasures of the flesh. She should have paid more attention as to how Will’s first wife raised her and Will’s boy, rather than leaving her’s to fend for themselves and raised by entitled coyotes.