LeToya Luckett’s newest starring function is in Lifetime’s “Line Sisters” — but the singer-turned-actress says she’s nonetheless combating the notion that her solely accomplishment was her three-year stint in Future’s Baby.
“I’m by no means aggravated when someone brings up Future’s Baby. I’m so blessed and grateful for the expertise of every thing,” she tells Web page Six.
“I used to be just a little woman, I used to be 11 years previous after I turned part of that group. However after they overdo it and make me really feel like that’s my solely accomplishment, then it’s like, ‘Now wait a minute.’”
She provides: “I really feel like I’m in a spot in my life, in my profession, the place folks [aren’t saying], ‘The previous member of Future’s Baby’ … and that’s due to my current work.”
Luckett, 40, offered thousands and thousands of information with the hit R&B group, alongside Beyoncé on their first two albums. She parted methods with the act, together with LaTavia Roberson, again in 2000.
The mom of two provides, “I used to be simply there to dwell my goals at such a younger age. It’s nonetheless part of my maturity — it’s one thing I’m so pleased with, no matter the way it ended, when it ended.
“I’m in a position to have songs on the radio that my youngsters can take heed to, and so they know ‘that was mommy,’ and ‘that was mommy in that video.’ I’ve all these fantastic tales… I’m an individual who likes to see the nice in issues. I’m optimistic.”
She says of first segueing to appearing, “When I didn’t get a job I [would] take a look at the woman that did get it. It will make me really feel like, ‘Wow, does she have one thing I didn’t have?’ However on the finish of the day, perhaps it simply wasn’t meant for me and there’s one thing higher coming.”
Her recommendation to aspiring performers? “Be true to you, be good to you, care for you and that’s the perfect you are able to do,” she says. “I would like my legacy to be that I by no means gave up. I did every thing with good intentions, and I at all times stayed true to who I used to be and I gave my finest.”
Kierra Sheard, Drew Sidora and Ta’Rhonda Jones all co-star in “Line Sisters” which debuted this month on Lifetime.
Source: Web page Six