godyssey said:

eric benet purrty! nice cheekbones.

Oh look, new photos of the couple looking gorgeous! They are from this Monday. Mani is beautiful.

VenusBlingBling said:

OKAY! Mani in that silk blue number with her hair flat ironed out is the best I've seen her in a long time. She's finally getting it. Girlie up Mani!!!

And don't think Prince hasn't pondered the what if scenario. I mean I'm glad they are over but perhaps one day P will forego the looks factor and focus on a woman who is beautiful inside and out. He needs to keep these triflin heffas/opportunists at a cool distance. Fuck them but don't go marrying them or tryna invest any money in them.

She looks beautiful...especially in the first one.

For me the verdict is still out on Manuela. One the surface she seems like a beautiful person, inside and out as well as very bright. It's just that some of her actions seem questionable or odd to me.

DesireeNevermind said:

I don't think that Mayte was an opportunist...not saying that you do. I'm just saying that he persued her, not the other way around. I can't say the same for the rest of them.

godyssey said:

well at least to get her in the band and to "close the deal" so to speak in regards to his long term pursuit of Mayte before she was of legal age.

Now, when she joined the group I have read that she did her own enticing to get him to herself... remember there was also Nona and Carmen in the picture.

prodigalfan said:

i dont think mayte "enticed" prince.
if she did,i dont see her admitting to oprah
that she didnt think she would marry him like she did.
i think he capped her head up and made her
feel secure and she rolled with it.
and sometimes the fact that all these other women
want the man you work with everyday can have a role too.
i heard she used to follow him around like a lost puppy.
im sure she probably had an attitude when it came
to nona and carmen,but i can see prince saying
some shit like "they have feelings for me but i just
want to do their music"...blah blah blah.
they all probably got the same story about eachother.
its so twisted.

as for eric and mani.
i personally think they have a very complicatd relationship.
only because mani is a complicated person period.
idk eric like that but he seems too
...hmmm
"loose" for her.
take that however way you want,lol.
sometimes it seems like she has a better relationship
with india than she does with eric.
he needs to be careful with all these beautiful,
powerful,persistent women in and out of his daughter's life.

zoetruluv said:

Hey Zoe! and I agree about India forming bonds with women that Eric can't stick to. Well India is an adult now and maybe it won't be as big a deal when the women move on. I wonder if she still has contact with her stepmom Halle.

Like I said before Mani is no dumb-dumb. What she is doing with Eric I do not know all I know is that it still gets the two of them invited to celebrity events. India at least has been exposed to two women who probably have good hindsight when it comes to men.

The blue dress is fantastic, not like the purple which looked sac-like on her tiny frame. She has a small bust so the lowcut on her looks sophisticated and not sleazy it's a look she should rock more often. Bright blue's should be her signature color. She wore a blue off the shoulder # to a red carpet event with Prince and it also was a standout.

Zoe



So does anybody forsee some babies for Eric and Mani in the near future? I do.

DesireeNevermind said:

you have changed your mind. You once said that you highly doubted they'd ever have kids.

I don't see either of them having children without marriage at least not before she's 40 and she's barely 33. She deffinately strikes me as wanting to get her non-profit up and going strong. It also seems like both the charity and the candles involve alot of travel for her and a baby would be quite a bother. Who knows maybe in years to come. Who knows what the child would look like, Mani's mother is quite dark skinned, but most surely the child would be cute.

Deadflow3r said:

Yep...I've heard a rumor that he wants to lock her down. Of course that could mean anything but I've always took it to mean "baby". If it is true then maybe it has something to do with Halle working on baby #2. You know how people can get...all competitive and crap.

they make a cute couple

booty said:

She is deffinately a pretty piece of arm-candy and at 33 years old she is aging beautifully. I can't believe people poopooed my saying that Bria was 36. Mayte is 36 and Mani is 33 and Bria certainly does not look younger then they do to me. Given the fact that I am 48 I do not think saying that another woman is 36 is an insult.

Deadflow3r said:

I just looked this up on Wikopedia, Halle just turned 43 on August 14th and Salma turned 43 on September 2nd . I don't see either of them looking 7 years older than Bria never mind more than that!!!!

Deadflow3r said:

true. more like same age or younger.

Arghhh, why does he always look like he's Crank-ed out/high on some shizz?

moussemaker said:

wow!she looks gorgeous.
but ummm...a little halle-esque,mr.benet.
and i agree...he stays looking high or like his contacts are dry.
it seems the darker you are,the less age you show.
halle and mani are darker than bria.
that may explain it.
but then again...mayte looks young and is lighter.

i think mani may want kids but may end up putting them off.
shes very busy with her work.
eric on the other hand is probably like "what the hell".

VanityFair said:

Actually for the "black don't crack rule" Mani is a little on the light side... we will see. But she is definitely looking much better, fresher and yes even younger since leaving the old man.

yeah, I said it... Mani looked like an old woman in some of those award ceremony pictures. Really now.

prodigalfan said:

She may have put on a few pounds too. Weight is good for the face. Being married to a man that has a waist like Scarlett O'Hara may have made Mani want to keep her weight on the low side. I bet anything she's a good 7 pounds heavier, just enough.

prodigalfan said:

mani is not light to me at all.
shes one of the darkest woman prince had been with.
and shes darker than prince and one of her parents is actually White.
the real White,not the White for movie marketing and record sales.

as for mani looking old,
to me she has an old face.
its not necessarily wrinkles or bags.
idk how to explain it but i can compare.
taraji p. henson is so pretty to me,
but she does have an old face.

This Ms Henson looks to me alot like Mani's mother. Mani's mother is quite dark but also has the high cheekbones slim upturned nose and medium to thin lips that Mani and this woman have.

zoetruluv said:

agreed, she and Taraji does have an "old face". I think it has to do with the neck and angle of the chin... looks similiar to wizened woman... the neck looks a little scrawny etc probably because they are so thin AND petite... that there is not much fat to pad the ligaments etc in the neck area.

as far as Mani looking "light" I am not comparing her to Prince women, I am talking about Black women in general. The comment was that Mani (and Halle and others) aging beautifully, and I responded something along the lines that "black don't crack" as the reason for Mani and others aging beautifully. Then I countered that with my observation that actually Mani is a little on the light side and that possibly she would not have that magic of "black don't crack" phenomenon.

Are you more confused now??? cause I am!

prodigalfan said:

all you had to say was:
"I am not comparing her to Prince women,
I am talking about Black women in general."
you lost me after that though.