Black Celebrity Men

Mike Vick and his beautiful fiancee Kijafa (who I thought was Trina when I first looked at the cover...well, a prettier version of Trina) are featured in the April 2010 issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine. Now, usually I hate reading interviews in S2S because they're always like 12 pages (front and back) long...literally! But this time, since I'm a fan of their reality show The Michael Vick Project, I trudged through it and I'm glad I did because it was really a good read. So much so that Mike and Kijafa, who plan to tie the knot next summer, are quickly becoming one of my favorite celeb couples for three reasons: 1.) because this girl stands by her man! 2.) Mike absolutely adores her. Shit, he better! LOL! And 3.) they make such a beautiful couple. Below are excerpts from their interview. They dished on everything from how they met (they both have their own stories) to how Kijafa dealt with Mike's incarceration, their money situation and the way folks treated him after he was released. Mike also spoke about his first night in prison, what he plans to do once he retires from football and mending his relationship with his father.

MIKE & KIJAFA ON HOW THEY MET:

MIKE: "I saw her in a nightclub and she was smiling at me. I called her over, asked her what she was smiling about. She said, 'Because I think you're cute,' I said, 'Cool. Go on, stand back right there. I'll come back there and talk to you in a second, because you know, she was there with her crew, so I didn't want to intrude. So I said, 'Go stand right there; I'll be there in a second.' So I went and talked to my man Rick, came back and she was still in the same spot--still smiling. But it was a cute smile, you know, a pretty face, long hair. Yeah, I liked her. So she gave me her number and we went from there."

KIJAFA: "Yeah, okay! I just want yall to know that is completely and utterly false. He was all up on me. That night I must've been looking real nice because a lot of fellows was in the club and they was buying me drinks, and I had two drinks in my hand and I felt this stare. So I looked over and I see this little chocolate thing looking at me. I said, oh, he's kind of cute. So I'm smiling and he's smiling at me. His story is false, but we always argue about how we met. Anyway, I did smile at him and he was smiling back and, you know, he told me to come in. I said, no I'm not coming. If a man wants you, he'll come to you. So he made his way over to me. Did you come or did you not come?"

MIKE: "I mean, I came, you know, because that was the proper thing to do. From the first time we talked, we talked probably 'bout two hours. I was at Walmart walking around shopping. We talked on the phone the whole time, and we just had a friendship that I never had with another girl and talked about things that I never talked about with even some of my friends. So I felt the friendship aspect of it was there. And she can cook!"

KIJAFA: "Way before the relationship, we had a friendship. He's a great guy. He does nice things for me. One of our first dates, he took me to Hawaii."

KIJAFA ON HOW SHE DEALT WITH MIKE'S INCARCERATION: "I just thought that our life was over. I was pregnant when this all came up. I actually moved out there. I took the children. We lived about 20 minutes away from the prison. I got a house out there so I could see him whenever I missed him."

MIKE ON HIS FIRST NIGHT IN PRISON: "I turned around and looked at the door, and I really couldn't believe that I put myself in that situation--that I was finally playing the cost of my crime. And then every time the guard would come to the door to check on me that first day, I thought he was coming to let me out. That wasn't the case. So, the first three hours I got claustrophobic. I had to get under the covers and pull the sheet over my head for a while to try to go to sleep. I kept looking at the food they gave me. That was a bad experience. I'm glad I got through it but it was hard. But it made me grow stronger as a person.

KIJAFA ON HOW SOME FOLKS TREAT MIKE SINCE HE'S BEEN HOME: "Oh, nothing but love, always. I think that the haters, or the people who dislike him, they just keep quiet. People who love him, they absolutely go crazy when they see him. I love to see people give him positive attention. I just smile and I tell him to sign autographs, and I ask them if they want me to take their picture. Some people don't really care about what he actually did. They just love him for what he did on the field. White, Black, Asian, you know they just show him love. So, I don't like to hear people say, oh, it's only White people who don't like him. I read things and I see things like Black people saying he should never play football again."

 MORE EXCERPTS & PHOTOS FROM MIKE & KIJAFA'S INTERVIEW WHEN YOU CLICK THE LINK BELOW!