Mýa is making it clear that her life path doesn’t must appear like anybody else’s. The singer and actress not too long ago appeared on the Hot & Bothered podcast with Melyssa Ford and opened up about why marriage and youngsters have by no means been priorities for her.

“I’ve never had a desire for marriage and children,” the 45-year-old artist mentioned in the course of the interview. She defined that her perspective was formed at a younger age after watching her mother and father undergo a divorce. That expertise, alongside along with her personal journey within the music business, inspired her to deal with independence, creativity, and non secular progress moderately than the standard household construction.

“It’s not even my focus, and it never has been,” she added. “I’ve witnessed a divorce between my parents… I’ve witnessed a lot of things, and it’s also not been a safe place in my mind as a little girl. So I’ve always thought a little different. The white wedding dress, I was very fearful of those things, so I looked elsewhere and probably escaped too much in my work. Knowing that if I have to be gone 95% of the time, and my work calls for me to travel, that must be intimidating, and I also can’t show up properly for my significant other.”

Even along with her sturdy stance, she admitted she isn’t fully closed to the potential for change. “Not say I won’t [have the desire] and not to say I’m not open,” she shared. “… [But] it hasn’t kicked in for me yet.”

Fans would possibly keep in mind the viral second in 2020 when Mýa shocked the web by posting pictures of herself in a marriage gown on the seaside. Many believed she had secretly tied the knot, however the photos have been a part of her music video The Truth. The stunt was really her means of celebrating self-love.