{"id":81009,"date":"2024-03-07T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/i-used-to-hate-my-own-voice-says-mary-j-blige\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:01:42","slug":"i-used-to-hate-my-own-voice-says-mary-j-blige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/07\/i-used-to-hate-my-own-voice-says-mary-j-blige\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to hate my own voice, says Mary J. Blige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-03-07\" datetime=\"1709802102\" pubdate=\"\">7 March 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mary J. Blige used to hate the sound of her own voice.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Mary J. Blige has learned to love her own music<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Grammy-winning star &#8220;didn\u2019t like&#8221; the sound of her own voice for years &#8211; but her self-love journey has helped to change her opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\nMary, 53, said on &#8216;TODAY with Hoda and Jenna&#8217;: &#8220;I didn\u2019t like the sound of my voice.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But now I listen to my music and now I love everything about me, I do.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I used to hate everything about me. The sound of my voice, the sound of my speaking voice. And I used to just be afraid to hear any music back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMary &#8216;s self-love journey has actually helped to transform her entire outlook on life.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe chart-topping star explained: &#8220;We grow up thinking we couldn\u2019t boast or brag or love on ourselves, and now I\u2019m doing all that. I\u2019m boasting and bragging and loving on myself because I\u2019ve earned it.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I have so much fun with myself. I\u2019m like, \u2018Girl, you look so good. I\u2019m so proud of you. Oh, that looks nice on you.\u2019 And I\u2019m by myself a lot, so I\u2019m always like, \u2018Oh Mary, I love that! Let\u2019s wear this tonight. That\u2019s gonna be hot!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m my friend, you know, and I love me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, Mary acknowledges that she still has faults, and that she&#8217;s still constantly trying to learn and better herself.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Family Affair&#8217; hitmaker &#8211; who has also enjoyed significant success as an actress &#8211; is ultimately determined to &#8220;do the right thing&#8221; in her life.<\/p>\n<p>\nMary said: &#8220;I\u2019m not perfect, but I strive to be better and that\u2019s what I love about me. I love the fact that I want to do the right thing, even when it\u2019s hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/used-hate-voice-says-mary-blige-1395785.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 March 2024 Mary J. Blige used to hate the sound of her own voice. Mary J. Blige has learned to love her own music The Grammy-winning star &#8220;didn\u2019t like&#8221; the sound of her own voice for years &#8211; but her self-love journey has helped to change her opinion. Mary, 53, said on &#8216;TODAY with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[573],"class_list":{"0":"post-81009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-mary-j-blige"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}