According to Tiffany Haddish, she previously declined a check for several million dollars for an endorsement agreement because it didn't fit with her principles.
The comedian and actor is the newest face on the cover of Cosmopolitan's travel issue.
Haddish acknowledged in the cover article that she turned down a $10 million payout because it made her "feel like sh*t."
“I’ve turned down $10 million just to do a post because it didn’t represent my brand,” she told the outlet. “I turned down $10 million because my soul is worth more than that to me. My spirit, my integrity, how I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror every day. I’d rather be flat broke than get money to do something that makes me feel like sh*t.”
Haddish, 42, explained that her mindset has even extended to her acting career. Now, she accepts roles that “resonate with her soul” and lets her exercise her producing skills.
“At first with acting roles, I used to just be like, what seems like fun?” she said. “Now it’s, what seems like fun and what resonates with my soul?”
She went on, “Then I ask, who else is working on it? Will it be my friends? What I’ve noticed lately, though, is that casting has been coming to me first. So I’ve learned how to fight better too.”
“It’s a battle getting the people that you want, because everybody still looks at you as talent, when they fail to realise I’ve produced things, got nominated for awards, won trophies. I kind of know what I’m doing,” the Girls Trip star added. “Give me an opportunity to make you richer, sir. I might not know how to keep a man, but I know how to make some money.”
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We Can’t Take Our Eyes Off Tiffany Haddish’s Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover
Multi-hyphenate Tiffany Haddish is Cosmopolitan’s 2022 Travel Issue cover star. For the cover story, Tiffany opens up about setting boundaries, the privilege of being able to travel, queendom-building and more.
On the cover, Tiffany looks incredible in an orange crochet cover-up by Cult Gaia, which she paired with silver hoop earrings from Gold & Honey and gold rings from Jennifer Fisher. Like always, she sports her platinum blonde buzzcut complemented by a two-toned smokey eye look and neutral lips.
Read excerpts from the interview below:
On setting boundaries between work and self-care
I love and hate telling people no. I love it because it’s for me—I have to take care of Tiffany. I hate it because nine times out of ten, whoever’s asking me is somebody I probably really like and care about. If a friend wants me to do a show or something like that, I have to be honest and say, ‘I can’t do it. I gotta get up early in the morning and the reason I gotta get up so early is because I need to go for a walk. So you just got to be selfish in a way, and I hate that feeling of being selfish, but I love the results.
On staying true to herself in an industry that tends to try to polish celebrities as they ascend
They be trying to polish me. They be trying their best. I ain’t perfect. There is no way on God’s earth that I’m not going to make mistakes, that I’m not going to say something out of pocket, that I’m not going to be out of order. But I’m willing to learn and I’m willing to evolve, and how I feel today might be different than how I feel tomorrow. But if you don’t make mistakes, you’ll never grow. You’ll never be successful. Every successful person I know that’s winning has failed multiple times.
On Black women being often praised for being “resilient” and “strong”
This is the part I hate, and I don’t know if my phone has been listening to me or what, but I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about it on social media. I am not just a strong, Black woman. I am a woman. I need to be nurtured. I need to be protected. I need to be soft.
Read the full issue here.
@tiffanyhaddish for @cosmopolitan’s travel issue and talked about everything from finding peace and imposter syndrome to the state of comedy and our shared East African heritage (š°šŖšŖš·).
Say it with me now: Tiffany Haddish needs a vacation š“ Between writing multiple (yes, multiple!!) books, playing a role in literally every major movie of the summer, filming an Apple TV+ series, and scheming about her next projects, our Travel Issue cover star finds a little peace. And a hot stranger.
Credits
Editor-in-chief: @jessica_giles
Booked by: @maxwelllosgar
Photographs by: @josefinasantos
Fashion by: @waymanandmicah
Hair by: @hair4kicks
Makeup by: @makeupbyhendra
Manicure by: @nails_by_yoko
Production: @wonderserra
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