La La Anthony A Bad Bitch? Lala Anthony for ELLE.com

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 Power actress and businesswoman La La Anthony took ELLE.com's cameras through her new Tribeca home, and shed light on "bad bitchdom."

A bad bitch, for Anthony means "You can take the power out of any word, it just depends on how you use it," she explains. "I realized that a bad bitch is a good thing. It means you're in control and it means you know what you want. You have a good head on your shoulders." And in control, she is. Anthony is at a precipice in her career—a media mogul in the making.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. "I love what I do, so when you love what you do it doesn't feel like work….All I know is hard work, I don't know anything else. I've been working this hard since I was a teenager and I started interning at a radio station," she says. "I'm also very independent and I never want to put myself in a position where I have to rely on anyone for anything, so that's kinda' like my motivation to keep going."

The former MTV VJ, who got her start at the age 16 as an intern for New York's Hot 97 radio station, signed a 360-development deal with iTV earlier this year. The career-making deal already has Anthony producing and developing a non-scripted show with Timbaland on her old network, MTV, and working with Queen Latifah on making Anthony's New York Times Bestseller relationship-guide, The Love Playbook, a motion picture—in which Anthony will also star. There is of course, the stunning polymath's much-anticipated return to television this summer as "LaKeisha" on Power, Starz's runaway hit. It's a complicated role that has broadened Anthony's acting chops and made her a central figure on cable television's highest-rated show. A fashion line for Lord & Taylor is rolling out later this summer to solidify Anthony's sprawling reach in culture. "That's a bad bitch rule: Make your own opportunities!" she says, laughing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just days shy of her 38th birthday, Anthony conceded this was a time she would be attempting more risks and putting herself first. "I'm learning that as I go, because I have always put family, friends, life, work before myself and I get to myself later. And now I'm realizing you can't 'get to you' later. You being great, makes everyone else around you great, makes you a better mom, a better person. You being great makes you better for everyone else."  Did You Enjoy this post? DROP A C.O.M.M.E.N.T ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie