“Some of the titles I was working with were Rebirth, Reincarnation, Reinvention, Resurrection… I just felt like Two Eleven describes all of that. It’s the day I was born, and each year, I evolve and change with time,” she told YRB magazine. “It also has a whole new meaning to it because I gained my angel. My icon is my angel now. It’s all tied in there and I just think it best represents who I am and the responsibilities I have moving on.It may not be the exact situation or circumstance, but no matter what, pain feels the same in any situation,” she said. “I was definitely having to pull from the most painful experiences that I had to connect with Melinda, and that’s a hard thing to do when you’re excited and happy to be doing a movie and working with Tyler Perry.”
"They're making me look like some kind of nut!" she joked with S2S. "But I mean it's all good. I was a trending topic worldwide three weeks in a row."
"I'm taking a whole lot of criticism from a lot of people, but I have a pageant background, so I'm used to being judged on that scale."
"Let me just say it this way: I'm the new girl, and I know every season goes through it," Kenya explained. "Tami [Roman] went through it. They talked about her hair, her clothes everything. Meeka [Claxton] obviously went through it so much so that she left [the] show or got kicked off.
"Nobody has ever thrown a wine bottle at me," Kenya admitted with a laugh.
"We love it, we think it's Christmas in April," partner Sean Howard says. "Given the fact that we recently purchased the venue and put $1 million worth of renovations into it, this will be a great boost in business us and the entire area.
Set for a seven episode recurring role, Whittle joins the list of actors slated to play opposite Single Ladies cast including Charity Shea, Lisa Raye and Denise Vasi. Among that list is Dancing With The Stars front-runner William Levy, Dancing With The Stars alum Romeo Miller, Hip Hop recording artist T.I., Rick Fox and former One Life To Live actor Terrell Tilford.
