Vanessa Williams | How She Went From a Disgraced Beauty Queen To a Hollywood Superstar

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @hassanburton669
    @hassanburton669 4 месяца назад +99

    Vanessa Williams: The Greatest Comeback Story Ever! Just Cause They Knock You Down, Doesn’t Mean You Have To Stay DOWN. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 4 месяца назад +5

      🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 4 месяца назад +110

    Vanessa Williams is so beautiful and a jack of all trades! Some fun facts: The “family f*cked my husband” from Soul Food wasn’t in the script and was improvised. Also, Vanessa Williams was originally suppose to be Boomerang playing Jacqueline (Robin Givens) and Tisha Campbell’s role in Spike Lee’s School Daze.

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 4 месяца назад +17

      That was some damn good improv! Loved her as Terry! ❤

    • @cosmicbeauty5682
      @cosmicbeauty5682 4 месяца назад +11

      Loved her in soul food. It's funny because I identify with her character 😂😂

    • @michellejorden1539
      @michellejorden1539 4 месяца назад

      The accuracy

  • @donaldwilson2620
    @donaldwilson2620 4 месяца назад +48

    Vanessa Williams is the Renaissance woman. Beautiful singer, actress, dancer, theater. She's also very intelligent. What can't she do? At 61, she has also aged like fine wine too.❤❤

  • @Feed-My-Mind-Not-My-Ego
    @Feed-My-Mind-Not-My-Ego 4 месяца назад +53

    Imagine the bitterness and envy of those who were excited to see her relinquish her crown and title, only to hear Vanessa singing on the radio and starring in movies. 😂 I've always liked Vanessa.

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 4 месяца назад +65

    She's very beautiful but also humble and play the bougie educated woman and villain very well. She was also NOT the villain in " Soul Food". I realized that when I got older. Her family used, demeaned and gaslit her when she worked VERY hard for her lifestyle.

    • @lizd.8655
      @lizd.8655 4 месяца назад +6

      I came across a video (I think from The Take YT channel) discussing the rich aunt/older sister troupe which includes Terry from Soul Food

  • @danavixen6274
    @danavixen6274 4 месяца назад +46

    Vanessa Lynn Williams is not ONLY one of my FAVORITE multi hyphenate artists. She is one of my HEROES after all of the backlash she endured just to rise like a PHOENIX! Proving she's more than a beauty queen, she can sing, dance AND act to this day. Give her new release Survivor on Spotify some love y'all! It's worth a listen! Legs is so UPLIFTING! ❤

  • @AmoMe2009
    @AmoMe2009 4 месяца назад +31

    I am super super super glad her character stayed all the way through on Ugly Betty.
    Wilhelmina Slater is one of my top 10 favorite characters ever on television!!!!!
    I liked her character Renee Perry on Desperate Houswives too.

  • @Glam2Greatness
    @Glam2Greatness 4 месяца назад +10

    She will always be Miss America

  • @EDT3270
    @EDT3270 4 месяца назад +13

    She is such a class act. This was such a pleasant watch ❤

  • @misturrrtylurrr
    @misturrrtylurrr 4 месяца назад +8

    She’s very underrated as a vocalist I believe, she has a lot of great songs on her albums.

  • @carlos64030
    @carlos64030 4 месяца назад +13

    Oh man, I've always been a huge fan of Vanessa ever since I was a kid! I'll never forget her winning that Miss America pageant and how happy my family and I were for her because she lived in our area. I still bump her first two albums on a regular basis.

  • @LayingInAMeadow
    @LayingInAMeadow 4 месяца назад +14

    I was RAISED by Vanessa's music. My parents went to the concert in 98 and I still have the T-shirt❤

    • @cleftheart1969
      @cleftheart1969 4 месяца назад +2

      Same here I loved vanessa williams as kid 😊

  • @generalinformation3507
    @generalinformation3507 4 месяца назад +14

    Vanessa Williams is the most successful miss America winner in history. Before her it was Lee Meriwether. I loved her in eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger💪🏿

  • @tiffany_james
    @tiffany_james 4 месяца назад +13

    ✨ I see where her children got all that talent and charm from. Some ppl in my generation don't know about Vanessa but my aunty living in the states (US) put me on years ago. It was interesting to hear about her come up, I had not known all this before.

  • @Itzsheila3087
    @Itzsheila3087 4 месяца назад +9

    I clicked so fast when I saw you were covering Vanessa Williams. Iv loved her work ever since I was a teenager. Very beautiful and so talented, she definitely had the It factor back then😂 She has been through a lot but she has come out at the other end. I wish her well for the future🔥🔥🔥

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 4 месяца назад +8

    Amazing story on Vanessa L. Williams

  • @AquariusSoul
    @AquariusSoul 4 месяца назад +8

    Love to see she's still doing what she loves!

  • @jaylene.turner6524
    @jaylene.turner6524 4 месяца назад +14

    Great video about a great legend!

  • @soigne21
    @soigne21 4 месяца назад +8

    What a star! Go Vanessa!!

  • @thegagabouche
    @thegagabouche 4 месяца назад +8

    Your voice gives me a lil Vanessa Williams sound! I couldn't place it until now lol. Love Comfort Zone, Dreamin, Work to do, Running Back to you, Save the Best for Last, Colors of the Wind... & love her daughter Jillians music too a*k*a Lionbabe❤

  • @jamillawebb3567
    @jamillawebb3567 4 месяца назад +6

    What an amazing life story ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @divinedelaware7541
    @divinedelaware7541 4 месяца назад +8

    So beautiful. Pure and flawless

  • @ranger13
    @ranger13 4 месяца назад +26

    Vanessa’s second daughter Jillian is professionally known as LIONBABE

    • @Charnelle3
      @Charnelle3 4 месяца назад +2

      Aka that girl 🙂‍↔️

    • @ranger13
      @ranger13 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Charnelle3 THAT!!!!!!!

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 4 месяца назад +1

      Their new duet BOP is a whole VIBE! ❤

    • @jamillawebb3567
      @jamillawebb3567 4 месяца назад +1

      😮 I am a huge fan and had no idea! ❤❤❤

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 4 месяца назад +1

      Yep. And she is perfect mixture of Vanessa and Ramon.

  • @losrob27
    @losrob27 4 месяца назад +3

    Genevieve, you have got to be the baddest sista RUclips has ever seen! I would have to put you on the Mt. Rushmore of documentary creators. This is another outstanding biography with so many unknown details. I hope you keep doing this forever and ever and ever!!

  • @latashaharvin618
    @latashaharvin618 2 месяца назад +3

    Vanessa Williams is very beautiful❤❤❤.

  • @thediaryofamusicfreak
    @thediaryofamusicfreak 4 месяца назад +5

    The Right Stuff is still on my rotation of albums! I’ll Be The One, Security, If You Really Love Him, all bops!

  • @niabelizaire3596
    @niabelizaire3596 4 месяца назад +4

    Vanessa Williams is beautiful! 💙

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 4 месяца назад +6

    Vanessa Williams also appeared in Johnson Family Vacation with Cedric the Entertainer, Bow Wow, Solange and Steve Harvey and Light it Up with Usher, Fredro Starr, Robert Ri'Chard, Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker and Sara Gilbert

    • @kerry-j4m
      @kerry-j4m 4 месяца назад

      I just rewatched Johnson Family Vacation and couldn't stop laughing,very good film. Jason Mamoa is also in this movie. Have Light it Up on dvd,haven't watched it in years tho.

  • @DesmondDuvall
    @DesmondDuvall 4 месяца назад +6

    Always love her❤❤❤

  • @butterflyroho6470
    @butterflyroho6470 4 месяца назад +12

    I don’t view VW as ever having been disgraced although they tried to. She was 19yo. She made a mistake. If we think back on the foolishness we did in our teen years we’d crumble in embarrassment. She’s a success story no matter which way you look at it.

  • @TrueCrimeQueen
    @TrueCrimeQueen 4 месяца назад +9

    Vanessa Williams has an incredible story of triumph!

  • @beezy22
    @beezy22 4 месяца назад +1

    Vanessa Williams:had some classic albums and some movies……The comfort zone:still have that album to this day…..also she’s very kind to her fans and sometimes interacts with her fans on social media……

  • @Wc7823
    @Wc7823 3 месяца назад

    I still all of her music in my regular playlists. She’s so talented. I’m glad she didn’t let those assholes keep her down because we wouldn’t have that music, those movies and her ridiculously talented children in the industry. Dreamin is my favorite song of Vanessa’s.
    Great piece on her. This is so respectful.

  • @yahainHotPink
    @yahainHotPink 4 месяца назад +4

    Thank you! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @happygolucky7241
    @happygolucky7241 4 месяца назад +4

    Legend 💯 ❤️‍🔥

  • @Rockhead84
    @Rockhead84 4 месяца назад +12

    Man...that "The Comfort Zone" album cover did something to 6 year old me 😮😅

    • @TheRetroWoman80
      @TheRetroWoman80 4 месяца назад +3

      Perhaps the best thing about that second album was all the songs that DIDN'T get major radio airplay. I loved the entire album but these are special right here:
      Goodbye, Better Off Now, Freedom Dance, Just For Tonight, One Reason, You Gotta Go, Stranger's Eyes, Still In Love and What Will I Tell My Heart💚💚💚💚

  • @crystalsherman8896
    @crystalsherman8896 10 дней назад

    I like Vanessa Williams. I'm happy she overcame so much and God blessed her and she survived

  • @byrolyn8182
    @byrolyn8182 3 месяца назад +2

    VANESSA YOU ARE ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN ON THE PLANET.. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 4 месяца назад +5

    She did an amazing job as Teri in the movie Soul Food

  • @KadeSutherland
    @KadeSutherland 4 месяца назад +5

    Running Back To You (1991)🎉 - HER BEST SONG🎉

  • @danawalker3153
    @danawalker3153 4 месяца назад +5

    Very good video

  • @dreameryoung38
    @dreameryoung38 3 месяца назад

    I truly enjoyed this ,followed her career from crown to now.On watching this think Im going to pull out my greatest hits by her.I truly loved how she bounced back.Now the people apologed for taking her crown,oh please

  • @alfonsogreen2722
    @alfonsogreen2722 4 месяца назад

    I got a big big crush on Vanessa Williams. I actually met her at my job 1 time

  • @michellejorden1539
    @michellejorden1539 4 месяца назад +1

    She was in the jackson movie too

  • @michellejorden1539
    @michellejorden1539 4 месяца назад +1

    She is beautiful

  • @jadedaejanae
    @jadedaejanae 4 месяца назад +7

    Both the Vanessa Williams’s were associated with a “soul food” too lol

  • @zzizahacallar
    @zzizahacallar 4 месяца назад

    ❤ Vanessa Williams. So beautiful and talented. I wish I could watch her on Devil Wears Prada

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 4 месяца назад +1

    Never forget that moment when Vanessa Williams was on the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as sports journalist Danny Mitchell and she said I went and saved the best for last and Will was surprised.

  • @lisawicks8205
    @lisawicks8205 4 месяца назад +2

    She went on to become the best known and most famous former Miss America.. take that

  • @chancest.thomas5160
    @chancest.thomas5160 4 месяца назад

    0:12 My Childhood Role model since '96.
    Her Autobiography is GOODT!!

    • @kerry-j4m
      @kerry-j4m 4 месяца назад

      It is ??? I'm gonna buy it.

  • @beaniegee5129
    @beaniegee5129 4 месяца назад +1

    Vanessa Williams also collaborated with Black Sheep on the song Work to Do off her sophomore album The Comfort Zone

  • @arthome2441
    @arthome2441 4 месяца назад

    You go gal!!!

  • @taureanmay1411
    @taureanmay1411 4 месяца назад +1

    0:03 Vanessa Williams.

  • @kikieaddy2576
    @kikieaddy2576 4 месяца назад

    Haven’t received any suggestion from this page I just soo happened to check myself thankfully I did YOU TUBE ISN’T LOYAL.

  • @Makoto03
    @Makoto03 4 месяца назад +5

    I think its kinda ridiculous that her Miss America title was stripped over spicy photos she took years prior.
    These days a contestant would win and start an OF account the next day. No one would even care. lol

    • @NattyPi
      @NattyPi 4 месяца назад +5

      nah even today tehy would likely strip the title for porn photos. my only hope is that she didn't get sexually exploited to gain fame. as in anything more than just those pics

  • @darrylcarter3691
    @darrylcarter3691 4 месяца назад +6

    Do Bone thugs n harmony please.

  • @bunnysb2587
    @bunnysb2587 4 месяца назад

    I love the save the best for last
    And I also love fighting back to you

  • @blackdragon6
    @blackdragon6 4 месяца назад +5

    Her haters must feel siiiick 😂

  • @princejojo2
    @princejojo2 4 месяца назад +1

    She was my first girlfriend in my head. (I was 4)
    I've always been infatuated with her since I saw the cover for The Comfort Zone.

  • @learrist
    @learrist 4 месяца назад +2

    Is it just me or does Vanessa Williams resemble Olivia Newton-John?👀 & reason why I'm saying this is because she looks EXACTLY like a black version of Olivia Newton-John + they BOTH have the same vocal range frfr💯

  • @NattyPi
    @NattyPi 4 месяца назад +4

    I just looked up the pics and all I can say was. why in the world would she take those photos? I can understand if it was just artistic nudes but that was porn. bad judgment call. live and learn. she had a good comeback

  • @cleftheart1969
    @cleftheart1969 4 месяца назад +1

    In living color did good tribute parody of her 😅

  • @mvry6573
    @mvry6573 4 месяца назад +3

    Can you do Rick Fox next then?

  • @5thdawg917
    @5thdawg917 2 месяца назад

    😅 bruh, i had a crush on her as teen even though she was on her 50s when watching desperate housewives..

  • @aaronj.brooks1977
    @aaronj.brooks1977 4 месяца назад

    Vanessa Williams I just want put your name in the end of my rhyme Doowutchyalike , I’ll say that when things were going well for her won some local pageants and the biggest one the miss america pageant but somehow someone tried to knock her down and put her to shame forcing her to give up her crown , but with some help she rose to fame and success and she can tell all of her haters how you like me now.

  • @DomoniqueStewart3936
    @DomoniqueStewart3936 Месяц назад +1

    ALRIGHT, LOOK. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE 1996 BLOCKBUSTER FILM "ERASER" WITH ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER FOR WARNER BROS. WHICH MEANS THOSE ASSHOLES SHOULD'VE PUT MY FAVORITE MOVIE "ERASER" ON THE FUCKIN' MAP, BUT DAMN, MAN! 😡😠

  • @TrvisXXIII
    @TrvisXXIII 4 месяца назад +1

    My brain is still confused on how she came from parents that looked like that lol I don’t see the resemblance with her features at all

    • @NellieKAdaba
      @NellieKAdaba 4 месяца назад

      But that's a good thing that she doesn't look like her parents.

  • @kikieaddy2576
    @kikieaddy2576 4 месяца назад

    They really didn’t know have a lot of makeup for African Americans. We looked so dry with flashbacks dominated.

  • @LateNiteFilmWatcher
    @LateNiteFilmWatcher 4 месяца назад

    13:23 i perfer Vanessa L. Williams

  • @elijahspeller6796
    @elijahspeller6796 4 месяца назад

    Soooo.... You're telling me she's available.... asking for a friend...

  • @genrodriguez5496
    @genrodriguez5496 4 дня назад

    one of the worst actresses I have seen. I cannot stand watching her movies. Especially in ugly Betty. I have to fast forward from seeing her. I rather watch Betty. She is a way better actress.

  • @THENATIONIBUILT
    @THENATIONIBUILT 4 месяца назад +1

    it was her fault!

    • @gigggiii
      @gigggiii 4 месяца назад +7

      Oh shut up

  • @mizzjacquettaxx6974
    @mizzjacquettaxx6974 4 месяца назад +1

    I absolutely love Vanessa’s work. She was an awesome phenomenal singer and actress.🩷❤️

  • @TheRetroWoman80
    @TheRetroWoman80 4 месяца назад +1

    I'm glad Vanessa continued on with her very versatile artistic career. I have loved listening to her sing anything, especially ballads, since '88.
    That Miss America craziness just goes to show earth "success" is most often followed by clouds of grey because this world hates organic happiness and joy.
    This consistent reality saddens me🫤

    • @NellieKAdaba
      @NellieKAdaba 4 месяца назад

      I love her music sine the 1990s.

  • @kikieaddy2576
    @kikieaddy2576 4 месяца назад

    Haven’t received any suggestion from this page I just soo happened to check myself thankfully I did YOU TUBE ISN’T LOYAL.