Jada Pinkett Smith finds it annoying to be only known as Will Smith Wife
Being primarily known as Will Smith’s wife bothers Jada Pinkett Smith, who married him in 1997 but recently announced a separation. She feels that her relationship to the Oscar-winning actor frequently overshadows her identity, despite her own successful career.
In an interview with Red magazine, she mentioned.
“It [being only known as Will’s wife] was more annoying than anything else … I had so much going on in regards to so many other emotional difficulties, it was kind of down on the list.”
The ‘Girls Trip’ star, who’s working on fixing things with Will, doesn’t use the term “marriage” because she doesn’t follow traditional norms. She explained:
“I try to stay away from conventional terms like ‘marriage’ because people have a very specific idea of it and I’m not in the business of trying to change that. I like spending time with me and I like spending time with my family and that’s it. I have no desire to do anything else but that.”
Together with Will’s son Trey from a previous marriage, Jada and Will, who have children together named Jada and Willow, made a commitment to always tell the truth, especially in the face of temptation.
She said: “I wasn’t going to go into a marriage in my early 20s, in Tinseltown – Will being one of the most sought-after actors in the world – thinking we were exempt from having to confront inevitable temptations… I didn’t want to play that game, so I was just like, ‘This is where we have to have a level of friendship; this is where we have to be honest with one another.’
“That friendship has been the core of what’s helped us get through some of the most difficult times.
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“Us pulling at each other to love each other so that we could feel a certain way about ourselves, to then separate and find our emotional independence, to then meet each other in the middle. Learning how to show up for ourselves is showing up for the other person. It’s been a deep learning process in how to love.”
Jada said she needed to take a moment to consider her priorities and came to the conclusion that her family was the most important thing in her life.
“I had to get really solid on what my priority was. At the end of the day, that was my family. That doesn’t fit into what makes a powerful, independent woman? Leave a woman to decide for herself what is important to her.
“It’s a lot of personal reconciling that helps us get that balance – recognising that we’re not here to be everything to everybody, and that’s okay.”
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Jada Pinkett Smith finds it annoying to be only known as Will Smith Wife
