Mo'Nique defends her decision for open marriage: It was my idea

Mo'Nique and husband Sidney Hicks have been publicly open about the fact that their marriage is an open relationship, but Mo'Nique says that there are still some misconceptions out there about the relationships...

TheGrio Staff

Jan 20, 2016

Mo’Nique and husband Sidney Hicks have been publicly open about the fact that their marriage is an open relationship, but Mo’Nique says that there are still some misconceptions out there about the relationships.

Specifically, she wants people to know that the idea of an open marriage was hers in the first place.

“No one knew it wasn’t Sidney’s idea to have an open marriage. It was mine,” she said in the debut podcast for “Open Relationship.” “I want to say that again. It was not Sidney’s idea to have an open marriage; it was mine.”

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During the podcast, Mo’Nique criticized those who thought the open marriage idea was Hicks’ idea simply because of the way she looked.

When you pull it up, and you [look] up celebrities in open marriage and you see Will and Jada, whoever the person is the author of that article they say well we can understand why they would be in a open marriage they’re both beautiful people. When they start talking about Brad and Angelina, they said, ‘Well we can understand—they’re both beautiful people. The moment it got to my damn picture with my husband they said, ‘Oh, we hope Mo’Nique not gon’ let him just use her like that, because society looks at me and they see a woman that looks like [she] couldn’t possibly have a man that looks like that if there was not something else involved in it…she’s gonna let this man do anything he wants to do because she’s famous and she has money and now she can have whatever she wants, but she’s gonna let the man use her and abuse her.

Listen to the full podcast here.