Momma Dee

Deborah Bryant (née Gaither; born September 21, 1963), better known as Momma Dee,is an actress, singer and reality television personality, best known for her appearances on the VH1 hit reality show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. Quotes It took me three years to learn how to walk again. Now within those three years, nobody in my family came to boil a pot of water, came to do anything for me and my kids. A couple of friends and everything. I couldn’t work again because every five years, I would have to get a new hip. And then when you go into those type of surgeries, it takes like four or five months for you to even walk again…It was hard in those days…My son was there and my daughter was there to give me a bed bath…But then I had to come on food stamps and welfare. And it was hard. That wasn’t enough money to pay bills and put toys up under the tree and buy school clothes. Who was gonna do? And I’m not a begger so I went out there and I got it myself. Now, it wasn’t by force. It was by choice. So I went and got it. I am not glorifying that type of behavior that I did. But what I am saying is I had survived it… They came in so I could control certain things from my mouth. See, any time you get inside the head, the tail gone follow No, I don’t. Coming from the childhood that I had…The day I had my kids, I looked at them in the face and I said “Hi, I have waited nine months to meet you, I’m your mom”. And as your mom, I’m gonna love you, care for you, nurture you for the rest of my life. Because at the end of the day when they roll me in the casket…It’s done Momma Dee Talks Abusive Childhood And Dealing With Her Haters;By Taren Vaughan External links Category:living people