What inspired you to create the Diamond Doll Foundation?
To me, the Diamond Doll Foundation is about being able to help young girls. Those girls in the inner city, who aren’t as privileged and girls that are kind of lost, those that don’t come from a great home or who don’t have older influential people in their lives to help them become great women. I travel a lot and I meet so many young girls and everyday life for them is a struggle. Everyday life for them is a different day of facing some sort of obstacle that they feel that can’t endure. It can be girls who get pregnant at early ages, girls that are on drugs, who have been abused emotionally and physically. My life is great, but I’ve been through a lot of different things that makes me have the strength that I have and to be able to give that back to girls that may be weak, who have low self-esteem or don’t have enough confidence, that I’m here for them.
Why at this particular point in your career do you want to start the foundation?
Right now, it’s just good timing because before, I was so busy trying to mold myself in my career to make myself become a solid believer to other woman so they could have something to look up to. You can’t really give advice to people if they don’t know for a fact that you have your feet planted in the ground. I just think everything comes with time and I’ve always wanted to do something to give back; to talk to these girls to let them know that everything that myself or any other entertainer do is not everything that you see on T.V. We’re still human beings. We still have fears. We still go through everyday life just like them. I’m stronger, I have the strength and the voice and I think it’s just great to reach out to young girls who are trying to find their way.
When did you create the foundation?
I’m just putting it together this year, but I’ve been generating information about starting the foundation for a little over two years though.
Where do you see your foundation five years from now?
I would definitely say it would be very successful. I see it growing and I see the development from girls to young ladies all over the world participating with the foundation. I see it as becoming a family outside of a family; almost like a second home where I can reach out to people to let them know that I understand what they’re going through. I want to see it expand outside of Miami to everybody worldwide. In every city, state or country, there are girls that are going through the same issues and being able to show girls that they are not alone will be great.
Is there anything else you want to mention about the Diamond Dolls Foundation?
The main objective for this foundation is to really reach out to these young girls to try to endure a lot of confidence, self-motivation and pride in them-selves. It’s really not just about the fame and the glamour and the glitz, it’s about trying to bring young girls into young ladies, young ladies into young women and molding young women into being the best strong women that they can possibly be. You are the company that you keep, so if you want a better life, you may need to change your surroundings. And that’s basically what I’m trying to project with this foundation.
You are in control of your own destiny and you are what you make of yourself. I get tired of girls saying they can’t do this or they don’t know how to do this because they don’t have the initiative to get up, get out and make it happen. Nobody is going to make it happen for you, you have to make it happen for yourself and it can happen. You can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you fight hard for it. People have low self esteem for all different reasons; you may have a girl that may have been molested, sexually harassed or whatever and they feel like it’s the end of the world for them, and it’s not. There are so many actresses, celebrities or people of high standards that have been through those same type of situations and they were still able to prosper. It’s all about building a foundation of strong successful women.
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