The Hollywood Superstar actress of the 'Being Mary Jane star' has just spoken about the hacking of her nude photos. This 42-year old star was married to a NBA star 'Dwayne Wade' not quite long, has written an essay on the December issue of Cosmopolitan, outlining the hate against women, and she also said it in a public audience at the Magazine's Fun Fearless Life conference in NYC last Sunday.
In her words she said thus;
"The day after my wedding, we were all sitting around, rehashing the best day of my life, and I get a text from my team that there's an article that over 100 female celebrities had been targeted," she said,.
It was just 3-weeks gone from their wedding honeymoon that this photos surfaced all over the internet.
"I'm on this island paradise with my family and I had hoped they had apprehended these criminals, but they hadn't. In the moment, I froze. I was mortified, terrified," she said. "I just didn't know what to do. I felt I had given so much of myself, but I had saved a little bit for myself and for my husband, and they had taken that from me."
"I didn't do anything wrong — no matter what people describe to me, 'It's your fault, you're stupid to take nude photos, that's what happens when you're a celebrity' — all this nonsense," she said. "They're criminals. What you do with your own body is your choice. Period... And when someone takes your choice away and your power away over your own body, it's a crime. Period. A hacking scandal? We're lessening it, making it more palatable for mass consumption, but it's a crime."
She also said that she got a very wonderful support from her husband Wade, his Super Catholic Mom, and the Paparazzi that she met on her travel.
"Everyone I thought would have a negative reaction or blame me in some way, or kindly position it as something I could have avoided — no one did. Everyone that I love and respect looked at it for what it is, which is a crime," she said. "Over a hundred women were targeted — if these women weren’t celebrities, there would be much more outrage, but because we're female celebrities 'we weren't good victims and we enjoyed it, all PR is good PR.' That's what they say."
She said that she wasn't happy about people telling her that she looked good in those pictures.
"'At least you look good! Thank god you were working out!' That's not the point. 'I looked attractive while a crime was being committed?' It's a crime."
"People panic when something bad happens and are trying to lighten the mood, and it makes it worse ... and now I know you looked," she said. "Everyone has the choice of not clicking."
She thereby encouraged women that if they every find themselves in this such a situation , they should never give up, but to match strongly ahead.
In her words; "Empower yourself. Take the control back," she advised. "I want you all to be the woman who did something about it, the woman who didn't take it lying down, the woman who still accomplished all her goals. That is a much better story to tell."
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