Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith And Adrienne Banfield-Norris Cover Harper’s Bazaar’s First Digital Issue


Following the instant hit of the Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Talk show, Jada, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris features in Harper’s Bazaar Magazine.

Their openness and vulnerability on the show made it special, popular and loved by everyone.

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In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the trio shared how vulnerability has helped them become stronger.

Jada revealed the show was borne from conversations she had with Pauletta Washington, Denzel Washington’s wife, at the red table seven years ago. She said,

I had a nervous breakdown.

I mean, not a nervous breakdown … what do you call it? A freaking mid-life crisis. I turned 40—when you look at your life and everything that was true is now not, and everything that was seemingly untrue now is true.

Willow who just turned 18, shared how she’s come to see vulnerability as power.


She said,

It’s more like an extension of our conversations when we’re alone and just how we are with each other naturally.

Obviously, we’re in a patriarchal society that looks down on vulnerability and looks down on emotion and looks down on femininity.

The biggest rebellion is coming into your vulnerability and seeing that as a power. Once you get in touch with your emotions, you start to understand things in a whole other way. When you express what you feel needs to change, or what you feel is unfair or wrong, that’s so important, but the real agent of change is when you embody the truth.

Adrienne, who had a heroin addiction for a long time and had talked about getting out of that life on the show.

She said,

People come up and just thank me. [They] say, “I’m trying. I’m working on it,” that kind of stuff. I just try to encourage them.

I felt like the impact that I could have to change the stigma of addiction and the help that I could offer was more important.

 





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