ETOnline.com:
Monique Samuels is a mom of three!
The 35-year-old Real Housewives of Potomac
star took to Instagram on Monday to share the news that she and her
husband, Chris Samuels, welcomed their third child, a son named Chase
Omari. The couple also shares a 5-year-old son, Christopher, and a
3-year-old daughter, Milani.
Monique
shared five pics from the special day that show baby Chase posing with
his mother, father and siblings. Both Christopher and Milani held their
baby brother, while Mom and Dad watched on. The little bundle of joy
looked thrilled in the shots as he held his mom's finger and hung out in
his parents' arms.
"It’s... A... BOY!!!! Told yall! I’m 3 for 3 with guessing genders now
😂😂🙌🏾 Chase Omari Samuels born 1 week early (today) at 4:56pm
weighing 8lbs 15oz 21 [inches] long!" Monique captioned the pics. "Thank
God for a safe and fast delivery and one healthy baby boy!!!! Thank you
all for the well wishes and prayers 🙏🏽😘 Thank you @people for
another amazing exclusive and thanks to my sister @callme_tosh who took
all these pics 📸 and didn’t pass out while I pushed the baby out
😂🙌🏾."
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ETOnline.com:
The Real Housewives of Potomac’s all-cast trip might only feature some of the cast.
In
ET’s exclusive first look at this week’s all-new episode of the Bravo
hit, the ladies gather for a dinner that quickly turns from bad to
worse. To start, it’s just Gizelle Bryant, Robyn Dixon and Ashley Darby
at the table, with Gizelle explaining why she has no interest in going
on an international trip with the women, planned by co-star Monique
Samuels.
“Why would she even be inviting me?” Gizelle asks. “Why? Why would she be inviting Robyn?”
“You come to Congressional Black Caucus, you don’t speak to me,”
Gizelle notes in a confessional. “You decide to befriend little [my
ex-boyfriend’s ex-wife] Miss Kyndall just to spite me, and then you want
to go to another country with you? No ma’am, Pam. Not interested.”
“It’s just weird,” Robyn notes.
“The
invite wasn’t even luggage friendly!” Gizelle calls out. “She said,
‘Pack your Louis Vuitton.’ Karen [Huger] can’t come … Candiace [Dillard]
can’t come. I mean, it’s just ridiculous.”
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Bravo.com:
Monique Samuels is mother to two absolutely adorable children: son Christopher and daughter Milani. Now as The Real Housewives of Potomac entrepreneur gets ready to welcome baby No. 3, she says this pregnancy has a particularly special meaning.
Monique experienced a miscarriage after she got pregnant for the third time last year, which RHOP fans saw her open up about earlier this season (clip above). She recently opened up about that challenging time in a post on her blog Not for Lazy Moms,
explaining that after the miscarriage occurred around 7.5 weeks into
her third pregnancy, she "was a complete mess on the inside."
But Monique shared the happy news earlier this month that she and husband Chris Samuels are expecting their third child. "I’m more careful than I’ve ever been this time around," Monique wrote in the blog post.
Unfortunately, there have already been complications in her
pregnancy. An ultrasound eight weeks into her pregnancy revealed that
Monique had a subchorionic hemorrhage in two areas of her placenta that
should have been fully attached to the wall of her uterus, she explained
in her blog post.
"My doctor told me that if the placenta fully
separates, I would lose the pregnancy, regardless of the excellent
health and size of the fetus," Monique shared. "Talk about devastated
and afraid!!!" Instead of giving in to the fear that she'll lose her baby again,
Monique said that she is committed to staying positive and following her
doctor's orders to take it easy.
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EOnline.com:
Real Housewives of Potomac star Monique Samuels is pregnant.
The reality star took to Instagram on Sunday to announce that she and husband Chris Samuels are expecting their third child.
"I'm
way too happy to be bothered... I'm full of life... LITERALLY," she
wrote alongside a video of her baring her bump. #RHOP #MoniqueSamuels
#RealHousewivesofPotomac #Blessed #PartyOfFive #Unbothered."
The two are already the proud parents to two kids, Christopher and Milani.
The happy news comes just a few months after the RHOP star revealed she had suffered a miscarriage.
"As
soon as I took the pregnancy test, Chris is just grinning from ear to
ear, and it never once dawned on me that we would lose it," she said
during an episode of the Bravo show. "Until you've experienced loss it's
hard to even put it into words."
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BravoTV.com:
If every time you see NeNe and Gregg Leakes together, it doesn't warm your heart, you may need to check your pulse. The Real Housewives of Atlanta couple is #RelationshipGoals, especially after they worked through their marital issues and remarried in 2013 to come back stronger than ever.
NeNe and Gregg's love story has definitely been an inspiration to one Real Housewife: Monique Samuels.
"Oh my goodness, I remember when NeNe and Gregg broke up. I was
devastated, because I love them as a couple, like together, and then
when they got back together, you could just see that the respect level
for each other shifted so much. And Gregg was just worshipping the
ground NeNe walks on," The Real Housewives of Potomac mom recently gushed to The Daily Dish.
"A lot of times, the woman, we're the ones that's always pushing the
man, and then they ended up breaking up, getting divorced, and then when
they got back together, it was him, he's her biggest cheerleader, so I
really enjoyed that."
Monique, who became a Real Housewives superfan long before she ever got into the world herself, said she also admired how Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker
similarly overcame adversity to keep their relationship alive. "She was
having issues with her mom leading up to them getting married," Monique
said. "And to see them still going strong, they have a baby boy, I
really enjoy seeing that. Like, it really makes me smile."
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People.com:
The ladies of The Real Housewives of Potomac already came to blows during part 1 of the explosive reunion last week — and in PEOPLE’s exclusive sneak peek of Sunday’s closer, the gloves come off as accusations of infidelity fly.
The most shocking? Charrisse Jackson-Jordan’s claim that the Grand Dame of Potomac Karen Huger —
who has been married to her husband Raymond for more than 20 years —
has been unfaithful, with a secret boyfriend on the side.
“People say you have a boyfriend. Do I talk about that?” Jackson-Jordan says. “Blue Eyes or whatever his name is?”
The accusation sends shockwaves through the Potomac Housewives — the camera catching Ashley Darby, Gizelle Bryant, and Monique Samuels’ respective OMG faces.
While the allegation itself may be surprising, what isn’t really
shocking is that Huger and Jackson-Jordan go at it in the first place.
After all, the longtime friends have had a few falling-outs this season
(who can forget their big Bahamas brawl?) — with Huger even calling
Jackson-Jordan “a New Jersey Harlot.”
Asked where that comment — and the suggestion that she had a photo of
Jackson-Jordan with someone other than her estranged-husband Eddie
Jordan — came from, Huger plays coy.
“I’m not going to do that, Charisse,” she says. “I was hurt. And I
meant that I would put the picture up, but I just couldn’t do it.”
“But it’s not factual,” Jackson-Jordan shoots back — explaining how
fake photos had circulated on Instagram from an unnamed “crazy person,”
who was out to expose Jackson-Jordan’s infidelities. “This is where all
this thing of a boyfriend came from.”
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MonstersandCritics.com:
Karen Huger breaks down in tears on The Real Housewives of Potomac
season finale — after the other ladies question the reasons she moved
into her new home.
The meltdown comes after repeated questions from the other housewives
about why she made the sudden move out of Potomac to Great Falls,
Virginia, and whether it had anything to do with her financial
situation.
The episode sees the other ladies questioning the Grand Dame about
whether she’s lying about her home and why she made the almost overnight
move.
She started living in the new house after coming back from a vacation
in Bermuda, despite telling the other ladies while there that she
didn’t know where she was going to move to after receiving a “cash
offer” for her old pad from overseas.
Her secretive way of dealing with the whole issue didn’t go unnoticed by the group, and they were left wanting answers.
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AOL.com:
How are you holding up as your first season as a Housewife winds down?
I'm
good! The thing I love about this is that I'm being me -- I'm being who
I am, which makes it so I don't have to put too much energy into it.
I'm just living my life, so it's been pretty easy. It's been a fun ride,
and I'm enjoying it. I come from a family that loves to laugh and make
light of everything. So, you're paying me to clown people and be shady
and all of that? This is right up my alley!
Was there anything that you were anxious about heading into the season, though?
Initially,
I was concerned with whatever perception viewers would get of me, and
[I was] hoping they'd consider me in a more positive light and see me
for who I really am. I've seen other reality shows where they take
things and spin them, so that was the one thing I was concerned about.
But I spoke with my husband [former Washington Redskins star, Chris
Samuels] and he said, "Listen, don't worry about things that are outside
of your grasp. Just do whatever you can do and take it from here and
own whatever you need to own."
What about Chris and the kids? How are they handling being on the show?
It's been really good! My kids, man, you would've thought that they'd come out of the womb with cameras on them. [Laughs]
They act like the cameras aren't even there! My daughter smiles at them
and waves, and my son is like, "Can I go back downstairs with the
dudes?" My husband has obviously been on camera before, and he's
enjoying it. The same way that I think it's fun, he thinks it's fun.
Talk
to me about the tense scene with Chris' mother, during which you had a
heated war of words. What do you think of how that played off on TV?
No,
my mother-in-law and I normally don't exchange words like that. That
particular time, for whatever reason -- because the cameras were there
-- she got really exited and was like, "I'm going to show her up!" She
kept coming back to everything I said with something competitive. I was
like, "Really?" She does this to all of her daughter-in-laws, but she
took it to another level [that time]. I tried my best to remain calm and
handle the situation.
It was very ugly, and one day my kids will
see their grandmother calling their mother a "heffer." I'm not really
concerned about it, but the concern I do have is that they're not going
to have the relationship that they should have [with her] because of her. It was definitely disappointing, but we live, we learn and we move forward.
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InTouchWeekly.com:
The breakout star of The Real Housewives of Potomac shares her mission in life to make a difference in the world.
Monique Samuels is more than just a Housewife, she is a mom, wife, entrepreneur, and advocate for change.
The mother-of-two is a boss in every sense of the word. She manages
her husband’s multiple businesses, which includes a real estate
investment company, business enterprise, and the Chris Samuels
Foundation. On top of that, she is also completing her business degree,
managing her portfolio of real estate, working on her blog, “Not for
Lazy Moms,” which discusses holistic and natural remedies for adults and
kids, and touring schools across the country to inspire children to
succeed with her B.O.S.S. mentality.
We caught up with Monique to find out what being B.O.S.S. (beating odds, setting standards) means to her.
Monique, what drives your passion to make a difference in the world?
MS: My family inspires me every day. I want to serve as a positive
role model by working hard to make a difference in the world. My
philosophy is that if you can change the mindset, you can change a
generation.
What is the mission of your foundation?
MS: If you can perceive it, you will achieve it! The "I’m B.O.S.S.
Foundation" is committed to guiding youth and members of the community
through establishing mentorship and leadership programs. Many crave the
idea of success, fame, and fortune without developing the mentality to
be prepared to achieve it. God will never give you more than you can
bear, so why not prepare your mind to be ready to receive the blessings
he will pour out to you in your due season?
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