Gabrielle Union Is Getting Slammed For Giving Single Women This Advice

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Gabrielle Union Is Getting Slammed For Giving Single Women This Advice
Gabrielle Union Is Getting Slammed For Giving Single Women This Advice

Gabrielle Union found herself on social media's bad side after snippets from an interview went viral for all the wrong reasons.

Union plays a divorcee in the forthcoming holiday film Almost Christmas, and in an interview with The Grio, she dished on how she thinks people can find love again.

"If your type hasn't worked for you in 40 years, guess what? Your type sucks," Union said in the full interview. "Time to change your type. Think outside the box! Maybe they're younger, maybe they're older, maybe they don't come in the shape or size or color that you assume they would come in."

"But there's so many dope people out there that if you open yourself up and get out of your own way, you're going to have a lot of options," she continued. "A lot more options than you think."

Sounds like pretty reasonable advice, but some on Twitter decided to come for Gabrielle over her relationship with husband Dwayne Wade — namely, that Union was accused of breaking up Wade's marriage. Union also got heat for reconciling with Wade after he fathered a child outside of their relationship, which people on Twitter didn't hesitate to bring up.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Gabrielles type is rich basketball player tho

I'd have more respect for this if she settled

She just said oh well to break baby cuz she already put the time in

 

[lotteryplaya]

 

[Dwolf]

"If your type hasn't worked for you in 40 years, guess what? Your type sucks," Union said in the full interview. "Time to change your type. Think outside the box! Maybe they're younger, maybe they're older, maybe they don't come in the shape or size or color that you assume they would come in."

 

[AlainLocke]

picking out a mate shouldn't be like picking out a car...

 

[RiffRaff]

Yeahhhhh she should have known better. Not wrong, but one of the worst people to say this especially to the generation of single women she's speaking to. Not excusing DWade's actions of course.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

picking out a mate shouldn't be like picking out a car...

Its should!
I'have so much respect for golddiggers

They decide what's most important to them and proceed accordingly

 

[WhereIsTheLove]

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[Knuckles Red]

I feel like if your "type" hasn't worked out for you, for 40 years, then it's not your "type" that you need to change. Its yourself. Unfortunately, after 40 years you're probably too stuck in your own ways to change.

 

[Gimini00]

That's common sense, who could challenge that ?

 

[Solo ✧✦✧]

I see her points, but I don't believe in settling for people that people aren't physically attracted to so I can see why age and physical features matter.

Some women do have unreasonable standards and will regret it in the future though. Chicks that only want to date 6'4+ dudes with model looks come to mind

 

[Nate Dawg]

 

[lowkey0z]

40 years? you lost a LONG time ago

 

[PeridotPuss]

excuse her....her now husband has unprotected sex with other women while also having sex with her...since he created a baby (aka 18+ year dependant) ....and not an HIV diagnosis through his actions ....she married him anyway

Clearly.....she would advise women to do....anything. ...they could....to have a man.

 

[AtomicUse]

picking out a mate shouldn't be like picking out a car...

If youre a man, it should be EXACTLY like picking out a car.