Kandi Burruss Is Focused On Black Woman Empowerment (In & Out Of The Bedroom)

Kandi Burruss has been boss goals for as long as we can remember. She’s gone from being an R&B icon and reality TV star to Broadway producer, sex-toy maven, and entrepreneur extraordinaire. And she’s been serving up Black beauty empowerment — and ownership — the entire time. In that time, she has taught us that you could choose your sexy — whether it’s in oversized clothes or barely-there thongs — as well as how to create our own spaces to celebrate us.

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That’s why we are loving her newest cover interview for Hello Beautiful. In it, she talks about launching Bedroom Kandi and “focusing on her own thing” based on her vision and not others’ approval.

“Even if you are the cleanest of the clean, and do everything by the book, a lot of times they still don’t choose you,” she said in the interview.

She continued:

“People respect who I am and realize that I don’t really give a damn what people say or care to change my brand at all for anybody. What I do actually works. I represent most women. At the end of the day, as a lot of us are mothers, a lot of us are business women. A lot of us have sex. Like, why are we pretending that we’re not sexual beings because we’re a mom. Sex don’t stop just because you had a baby? Being sexy, shouldn’t stop just because you had a baby, like those things should still continue on.”

She also talked about making history with her debut as a Broadway producer, for Thoughts of a Colored Man, which will feature Broadway’s first all-Black, male cast.

I am excited about it,” she said. “Broadway has been known as ‘The Great White Way’ for a long time in past history. To have a show like this with all of us, you know, being a part of it, championing it. It has to be a success. It’ll be a win for not just us, but for the whole culture.”

Of course, no cover interview would be complete without a kick-ass cover spread, which Burruss nails in a series of ’60s mod swimsuits and dresses that are giving us all sorts of retro pin-up vibes.

Scroll through to check out a few of the looks below.

Read the full interview here.