In the months before making her new album, The Definition Of… (out July 29 on 19 Entertainment/RCA Records) — and long before she met her new husband, Kendall Taylor — Fantasia Barrino put a ring on herself. “I was getting all of my old relationships out of my system,” recalls the Charlotte, N.C., native, who, as a 19-year-old single mother, belted her way to victory on American Idol‘s third season in 2004. “I didn’t want anybody; I said, ‘I’m marrying myself.’ “
The token of that commitment to herself was not quite the dazzling piece of bling that proudly sits on her ring finger today, courtesy of Taylor, the COO of a local courier company — but, she says, “I spent good money on it; that was me realizing my value. I said, ‘Some man has to top this, because I’m worth it.’ “
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