When it comes to what we’ve seen on Shekinah via reality television, she always appeared to have a bubbly personality and a joking spirit.
But recently while co-hosting “The Real,” she got real and broke down while responding to her critics.
She revealed that it really upsets her when people question her intelligence and assume she’s from the projects.
Here’s a transcript of what she had to say:
Loni Love: What do you want people to know about Shekinah?
Shekinah: That I do talk fast, but I am intelligent. Um… I dropped out of school, but I wanted to be something, so I went and got a GED. I went to cosmetology school. I didn’t come from a background of nothing, I have a grandmother, she is beautiful. She lives with me and I take care of her and I am thankful that God let me be with her.
[The Real audience claps.]
Shekinah: But my grandmother always owned a daycare center, so you know if somebody owns a daycare center, they got good money. She had a daycare center keep like a hundred kids, like this was my background. I always had a car. I always had my own room. I always had a cell phone when I was young. I don’t know what it is to struggle but I did want to go to the hood, and maybe that was my problem. I went to the hood, I wanted to see what was over there. We stayed in the neighborhood, but we were not project. I went to the projects though to meet and greet. My grandma kept a lot of project kids, so I know both sides. But I just hate how people always, you know… putting me down and they don’t know me.
Loni: Believe me…
Shekinah: Oh and I want speech therapy anybody out there that’s seen this show today!
Loni: [Laughs.] You say you want speech therapy?
Shekinah: I want speech. I need help.
[The Real audience claps.]
Jeannie Mai: I actually really love your accent so much. When you came out day one, I was like, “Dang, there’s a swag to the way you speak.”
Shekinah: Yeah and I’m country, I’m from the south. And I have braces…
Loni: What did I tell you? I said, “You know what, sometimes you have to look at yourself on TV. Look at yourself and then you can see, you know, the mistake. Because I do that.”
Shekinah: I wasn’t that mad at myself.
Loni: And I told you that. I said, “you were great.”
Shekinah: But everybody else… [gasps] They tore me up y’all!
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People question her intelligence because she’s always saying dumb things.
Didn’t she just say she gets plastic surgery because she’s too lazy to work out? I think people would have less to criticize if she didn’t feel the need to share her every thought with the rest of us. Like the old saying goes, it’s best to be thought of as a fool then to open up your mouth and remove all doubt.
The internet is the one place where trolls have the most courage. If I was famous, I’d never read any comments about me.
She always came off to me like a person who really didn’t care what people felt about her. I guess you never really know what people are feeling until they say it.
So true.
Aww this made me sad.
She needs thicker skin because this won’t stop people from talking sh-t about her on the internet.