Steve Harvey and his third wife, Marjorie Bridges-Woods Harvey are featured in the December 2009 issue of Essence magazine. I didn't want to bore yall with info you already knew (i.e. his book--even I'm tired of hearing about it--and yes, I did read it, his radio show, becoming BFFs with Oprah, the Hoodie awards). So instead I selected excerpts from their interview where they talked about how they met, the night Marjorie almost walked out on him for good, their beautiful blended family and why, after two failed marriages and one messy-ass, much-publicized divorce, Steve considers Marjorie to be his one true soul mate. Also, I want to point out that I read that entire interview at least three times, and I still don't know what Marjorie does or has ever done for a living. If anyone out there knows, let me know! In the meantime, check out excerpts...as well as pics of their blended family as well as their massive 5-story mansion in Atlanta below.
FYI, this weekend, I'll be updating B.C.M. with more blog postings and pictures of black celebrity men.
FYI, this weekend, I'll be updating B.C.M. with more blog postings and pictures of black celebrity men.
Steve, who has 3 children (twin daughters, Karli and Brandi, born in 1982; a son, Broderick Jr., born in 1991 from his first marriage, and one son, Wynton, born in 1997 from his second marriage of over 10 years to ex-wife Mary Lee Harvey), and Marjorie met over 17 years ago when Marjorie walked in late during one of Steve's stand-up comedy gigs in Memphis, Tennessee. He told the audience that, although he didn't know who she was, she would one day be his wife. They dated briefly, but then went their separate ways--she into the arms of a former fiance, he into the arms of a first wife....and then a second. In 2006, they divorced their partners and began seriously dating again. Steve almost lost her when he accepted a phone call from another woman--in front of her. Of that night, Marjorie says, 'I was just at a point in my life where I was like, 'If what you want is the same thing as what I want, then great. If not, it just means we're not in the same place. What I'm not going to do is sit here and be in something where I'm not happy and not getting what I want. I wasn't afraid to walk away. It didn't take a shouting match or me yelling at the top of my lungs to get my point across.' Steve says, 'She wasn't talking loud, but the zippers on that bag were pretty damn loud. Them high heels in that hallway at three o'clock in the morning was kinda loud.' Needless to say, Steve came to his senses and the two tied the knot in June 2007.
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STEVE ON WHY HE CREDITS MARJORIE FOR SAVING HIS LIFE: 'The thing I've learned in all of this is that you can make a lot of mistakes, and you can mess up real bad and God can fix you up anyway. [Marjorie's] loyalty, courage, strength and willingness to help him get closer to my children made her a keeper. That's the cold moral of this whole story. You're looking at two people who were messing up for real and making bad decisions without conferring with God. But the fact that you can mess up that many times and still come out okay is a testament to just the grace and mercy of God, man. He took up all the way around the block, halfway around the world, and we got back to each other. I mean, there's not two days that go by when one of us doesn't look at the other and say, 'Man, you're the best thing that ever happened to men in my entire life.''
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ MARJORIE'S TAKE ON HAVING A BLENDED FAMILY AND THE DIFFERENT CHARITIES THE HARVEY'S ARE INVOLVED IN. PLUS CHECK OUT MORE FAMILY PICS AS WELL AS PICS OF THE COUPLE'S 5-STORY MASSIVE MANSION IN ATLANTA.
STEVE ON HAVING A BLENDED FAMILY: 'It's a blessing when your new spouse is accepting of your children. Do you know the pressure that takes off? At the end of the day, the kids didn't ask for any of this. The kids didn't know you were going to break up with their mama, their daddy. They didn't know you were going to try to find happiness elsewhere. And they really don't have anywhere else to go except where you go. So for a woman or man to accept their partner's offspring as theirs and love them that way? A ton of pressure is off. Slowly but surely, each of the kids came, and everyone agreed that everybody in the house would refer to one another as brother and sister and to Marjorie and Steve as Mom and Dad, regardless of blood ties. There's no 'step' nothing here.'
MARJORIE ON HAVING A BLENDED FAMILY: We had a couple of little 'Come to Jesus' meetings with our children. We make the decisions and you follow suit if you want to continue to live in this house. And you know what? It has really taught them that, 'Wow, we can't really manipulate mom or dad or play one against the other' because they know that this right here? This is solid.'
STEVE ON HIS CHARITY EFFORTS: I'm in the help portion in my life. I've made a lot of mistakes...I've messed up a lot of stuff. But, man, oh man--it feels good to have an opportunity to correct some of it. It feels great to have the opportunity to make an imprint instead of just jokes.'
Steve and Marjorie help others through several of their various charitable endeavors, including a four-day mentoring event Steve holds on Father's Day weekend with 100 boys being raised by single mothers; the Disney Dreamers Academy, a career-oriented seminar for 100 high school students at Disney World; and the infamous Hoodie Awards which is a nationwide program that recognizes small businesses in urban communities. Through these three programs, as well as their newly formed children's charity, the Steve Harvey Foundation, the Harveys are trying to give away $300 million to causes that help children and the neediest among us.
STEVE ON HIS CHARITY EFFORTS: I'm in the help portion in my life. I've made a lot of mistakes...I've messed up a lot of stuff. But, man, oh man--it feels good to have an opportunity to correct some of it. It feels great to have the opportunity to make an imprint instead of just jokes.'
Steve and Marjorie help others through several of their various charitable endeavors, including a four-day mentoring event Steve holds on Father's Day weekend with 100 boys being raised by single mothers; the Disney Dreamers Academy, a career-oriented seminar for 100 high school students at Disney World; and the infamous Hoodie Awards which is a nationwide program that recognizes small businesses in urban communities. Through these three programs, as well as their newly formed children's charity, the Steve Harvey Foundation, the Harveys are trying to give away $300 million to causes that help children and the neediest among us.
16 COMMENTS:
looking at steve's twin girls makes me wonder what his first wife looks like. i'm sorry but those girls are not cute. marjorie's kids are adorable though.
Marjorie Bridges Towsend Woods Harvey is a gold digger from Memphis, TN. She was married to 2 known DRUG LORDS drom the M town. Steve has a real GOLD DIGGER this time. She is going to take him for everything. She plays a sweet charming lady but she has a heart of a hustler. She cares for no one but herself. I have know her for years. BEWARE STEVE SHE IS GOING TO GET YA MAN!
SG thats the word around the web. Marjorie is a glorified gold digger. Found this on another site-
Steve Harvey can kiss my ass in the grass! Dude is as fake and as phoney as that afro wig he glued on his head before going "bald." Can't stand him. The things he said about and did to Bernie Mac were grimey as hell. When he should've been uplifting and congratulating Bernie instead he went around bitching about him. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Iain't gonna even get into the way he treated his second wife.
Well at least they have a beautiful home?
I read the article and I think Marjorie is a very beautiful loving woman. What Steve did in the past is in the past. If we were all judged on our pasts mistakes, we'd all be some lonely people. Now if the time comes where he will choose to treat Marjorie like the pieces of shit he treated his first two wives, well, that's on her. Only time will tell if he's really sincere about this marriage or not. If he wants to keep the millions of dollars he's made in the past year alone in his bank account, it may behoove him to keep his dick in his pants. Word.
Furry lip dog!
I still believe that Steve cheated on Mary with Marjorie. I found it odd that he and Marj had knew each other for so many years. Wasn't his ass married to Mary when he met Marj? Trifling. No wonder Mary stayed having a mean ass unit plastered on her face whenever she was with him. He did her so wrong.
Oh and its BOUT DAMN TIME you started updating this blog again SouthernG! What, you had molasses in your ass or something?! LMAO!
They made sure she was showing off her ring, huh??????? LOL. It look like it costs as much as they house!
okay, some of yall are so damn mean and hateful. Do yall live in this man's house? Does he personally tell yall all of his personal business? All yall know is things put out here by a third party. A bunch of he said she said mumbo jumbo. the man has said over and over again that he isn't perfect and has even admitted that he has made mistakes. If yall read what SouthernGurl published yall would know that. reading is fundamental. use it! And stop wondering and worrying about what another grown ass man is doing in his home.
What a joke! STEVE HARVEY is like his comedy, terrible and unfunny!
Publicity and money will make you lie about everything! His ex should write a book called "The Real Steve Harvey", or "What Really Happend in the Harvey House".
Steve harvey been married three times......who is he to talk about what successful woman need to do...anybody that's been married that many time he's the problem......successful women need to avoid and RUN like hell if they encounter a man like him..........my question is why is it all ways the BW is the problem .......if she is successful then their is a problem with having a BM...if they work at MCDonals then they have a problem with that....I say BM are the problem and they make up excuses for it.......they are the problem...they get a little money and they make a fool out of themselves and start talking about how bad BW are.........well let me tell you...to all BM men out there...before you got so high and mighty...it was a Black women who stood by your side to help you get there....whether it be your mother or your girlfriend/wife...sn you get a little something you want to talk to the world how Bad Black women are........you never know...when the world and it's trashy non black women beat you up.....BW will be gone!
I believe that these two were messing around while he was married. And steve wants to talk about God bringing them back together. No you big teeth bastard it was the cheating that brought you and that whore back together and you and her both will get what's coming to you. Mary was the lucky one she got away from his shity looking mouth ass his mouth has marjorie stank ass all over it. Three marriages each speaks volumes about them both. Maybe these two deserve each other steve's mouth look packed with shit & she look like half man half woman. And steve I really don't like this bastard talking about relationships between others and can't handle his own stupid looking bastard. When this bitch take you to the poor house think about mary. She's going to have you out on the cut pulling up your pants and selling dope like her other two men & running from the police you crazy looking bastard.
Well all I have to say is , if they are happy then so be it, let them be happy... But one thing I will add that in this life every de ision we make has a consequence. If he is fake and she is a gold digger like people say.... Well what can i add other than they are perfect for each other. Ive always thought that things happen for a reason, and some rumors arent too far from the truth... God does forgive... But our past doesnt go away. Best luck to bothe of them, and time will tell us the truth!!
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Wow!! This is some cruel stuff here...ruthless!! plus, you talked about his kids?? People really??? ???
Dont believe what the internet says because its probably not true even if it is he knows and she knows and they both know they both had a rough past , they both love each other even without all that fame they both love each other , she turned his life around and his wife mary didnt im sorry to mention her but she was messing with him when he was first married so they all are not innocent but look when they are now they both shohld be soul mates if you dont agree then dont .... Wow
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