Jada Pinkett Smith has found her happy place in marriage, motherhood and with her career.
The confident mother-of-two tells Redbook in its July cover story how despite rumors of a troubled marriage, the devotion and happiness between her and husband Will Smith, 44, is no illusion.
“What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one,” she says. “I’m sorry.”
Not so fast.
Like any protective mother, the former “Hawthorne” actress does in fact have one reason she’d cut ties with Smith after 15-years of marriage.
“Except if he did something bad to the kids,” she adds. “Now we’ve got a problem.”
But the couple seem to share in their undying love for their children – – Jaden, 14, and Willow, 12 – – and revel in the small things that make life so grand.
“We tend to find magic in the mundane,” the 41-year-old actress, singer and activist describes. “Picking Willow up from her girlfriend’s house at 9:30 p.m., and enjoying that ride together, then stopping at 7-Eleven to get some ice cream as a family.”
Regardless of what negatives may come with fame, Pinkett Smith is secure in her relationship with her family and, more specifically, her husband.
“I have been affected by gossip, and I know people who have been to,” she says. “I’ve seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.”
But that isn’t it for the superwoman who not only holds it down at home but also in her forever blossoming career.
Pinkett Smith will produce the upcoming talk show “The Queen Latifah Show” for her 1996 “Set It Off” co-star and longtime friend.
“It will be a cross between Oprah and Ellen,” she explains to the magazine on newsstands June 11, “not serious but heartfelt … to help execute this idea for such an amazing artist is really pleasing. I’m able to be creative on a whole different level.”
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