According to Insider Jada Pinkett Smith reveals in her memoir
“Worthy”
Where she detailed her childhood, Hollywood stardom, and relationship with Will Smith that she bought her own engagement ring after he proposed to her so she could maintain some form of control and prepare herself for marriage, per Insider.
“I went to Harry Winston in Beverly Hills and bought my ring, a nice-sized pear-shaped diamond set in a platinum band,”
Jada Pinkett wrote in her newly released memoir.
“By buying my own ring, I took some measure of control and sent the message to myself: All right, get with the program.”
She went on to reveal that a decade later, Will Smith outdoes himself and gets a 10-carat Graff diamond ring, she added that in the moment she had to move quickly to make it all real and concrete for her psyche. Jada says the ring was a statement to her fear saying
“Get used to this now.”
The pair wed in 1997 and have two children together, son Jaden Smith and daughter Willow Smith, but Pinkett Smith never wished to be married.
Jada Pinkett says this choice was never about Will Smith, it was due to her long-held belief that marriage wasn’t for her additionally stating that her mom Adrienne Banfield had two failed marriages.
“My big predicament was being too scared to get married and just as scared not to get married,” she said. “I was stuck.”
After Jada became pregnant with their first child, her mom told her that she had to marry Smith.
Despite her resistance to the concept of marriage, she accepted Smith’s proposal.
“Once I accepted that this tiny being inside me was having her or his way, and had chosen us as parents, I was able to listen to Will when he came to my side as I was resting on the chaise lounge I had put in his bedroom,”
She wrote.
“As I was lying there, trying to ease my all-day pregnancy sickness, Will leaned in and proposed by saying there was no way I was going to have a baby without him marrying me.”
“All I could do was cry,”
Pinket Smith.
“His proposal was beautiful and sincere, but I was scared as hell.”
When Jada and Will got married in December 1997, she found herself
“straight-up bawling”
While walking down the aisle.
“I was happy and sad, hopeful and scared, triumphant and uncertain,” she said. “But what I knew was that I was going to give this marriage my best.”
Although Jada Pinkett and Will have been legally married for more than two decades, she revealed during her promotional tour for Worthy that they quietly separated in 2016.
She also said that the pair
“did some really deep work together”
After the 2022 Oscars and are currently working on reconciling.
#Clique, what are your thoughts on this, should they keep it coming or keep us out of grown folks’ business?
