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Diddy opens up about the death of soul mate Kim Porter
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs has opened up about life after the sudden death of his soul mate, former girlfriend Kim Porter.
The music mogul posed with his six chil- dren on the cover of Essence magazine’s 49th anniversary May issue. In excerpts posted online, Combs offered his gratitude for the outpouring of love after Porter’s passing on Nov. 15, 2018 from complica- tions from pneumonia.
Porter is the mother of three of his chil- dren, 21-year-old Christian and 12-year- old twin girls Jesse and D’Lila. Combs told the magazine he has learned to be a more attentive father in the aftermath of his grief.
“Before this, I was a part-time father,
you know? My family was always first, but there are countless times when I chose work over everything else,” he said. “But every day I can hear her telling me to go and spend some time with the kids and make sure everybody’s all right, like she
would do. I’m just a lot more present, and, most important, now my kids come before anything else in my life.”
Three days before she died, according to Combs, she was sick with the flu and “sent the kids over to my house so they wouldn’t get sick.” He recalled one night, when he went to check on her, “she was like, ‘Puffy, take care of my babies.’ She actually said that to me before she died.
He said he went into “mommy mode” after Porter’s death, trying desperately to make sure the kids wouldn’t hear about it online or on the news.
“Every time Kim and I talked, it was about the kids,” Combs said. “It was what she cared about the most.
The magazine hit newsstands Friday.
Garner graces cover of People’s annual ‘Beautiful Issue’
NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Garner graces the front of this year’s “Beautiful Is- sue” of People magazine with a cover story that cheers the way she balances Holly- wood, business and motherhood.
The magazine revealed the cover Tues- day of the annual issue that hit newsstands Friday.
On the cover, the Texas-born, West Virginia-raised Garner, 47, is shown sitting on the hood of a car with grassy hills in the background along with the quote, “I’m grateful every day.”
The “Alias” actress is co-founder of a baby food company, acts as an artist-am- bassador for Save The Children, and is mother to three kids with ex-husband Ben Affleck: 13-year-old Violet, 10-year-old
Seraphina and 7-year-old Samuel.
“I’m starting to get to the point where I realize this job is not going to be forever,”
Garner told people. “Not in the all-en- compassing every meal, every moment, every day way that I have loved for the last thirteen years. It’s going to shift. But there’s
beauty in how it works in episodes.” Garner said that when she arrives home
from a fancy photo shoot, her kids object to her glam get-up and want their mother back.
“They’ll look at me and say, ‘Can you wash your face? Can you put your hair in a ponytail and put your glasses and sweats on?’” Garner said. “And I see the compli- ment in that. They just want me to look like Mom.”
Last year the magazine rebranded its “Most Beautiful” issue as “The Beautiful Issue,” to make clear, its editors said, that it’s not a contest.
Singer Pink and her children were on the 2018 cover.
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