Respect and maintain your private life.
Beyonce didn’t reveal publicly that she had wed, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter until six months after the nuptials. Prior to getting hitched, she was also extremely closed-mouthed about even dating Carter. In early 2010, Knowles-Carter announced that she would be taking a hiatus from her music career to “live life and be inspired by things again.” Beyonce revealed that she and Jay-Z were expecting their first child at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, which was five months into her pregnancy. The Carter’s closed out an entire wing of Lenox Hill Hospital to ward off paparazzi, reporters, and fans from the birth of their daughter, Blue Ivy in January 2012.
I can only hope that the striking parallels between Ms. Knowles’ story and Whitney Houston’s will end soon.
Both women started as startlingly talented, beautiful and sweet. Both had Christian upbringings with roots in gospel. Both uncharacteristally married successful “bad boy” musicians. And, like Ms. Houston, it seems Beyonce’s persona is slowly changing to that of a spoiled diva living in her own universe.
Time will tell if Beyonce writes her own history or follows the path that appears to have been laid out for her.