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Lopes felt just as much at home in the concrete huts of Usha Healing Village
in La Ceiba, Honduras, with its healing lake encircled by mountains,
as she did in the steel wonderlands of Philly, where
she grew up, in Atlanta, where she became a star, or even in Los Angeles,
where she conducted the bulk of her business.
She ultimately bought land in Honduras and moved a team of designers that were to
craft her clothing line down there. It was where her creative juices flowed best.
Publicist Marose said that one day last year while Lopes was in the
lake, the word "release" came to her, and later the date August 16 popped in her head. The
next day she found out that date's significance and decided it would be the
release date of Supernova.
"The reason why I picked [August] 16th as a release date, something weird
happened in my family," she explained last summer. "On that day my father
died and his father was born. Then January 31 was the day that he was born
and his father died. So they came in and out on each other's dates, and they
were both 40 when they died. It's a very significant release date for me. I
have premonitions, and one of those is that the 16th was the day to release
my project. There is magic in those numbers to me."
There was also a certain magic she felt when she looked at Snow, the
daughter of one her homegirls. The child was troubled, having problems in
school. Lopes' friend was going through problems of her own, and the burden
of raising a kid alone was too much to bear, so Lopes intervened.
"Snow is a lot to handle, and her mother and I are good friends," Lopes said
last year. "We have been friends for seven years now, and [Snow] has been a
lot to handle for seven years. A few of us have helped my friend raise her.
She is going through a lot right now. It's getting to the point right now
when she needed someone to take over and raise her, who really loves her
little girl, who will take care of her. That's me and my family. So I have
taken legal custody of her and will bring on a tutor to help her."
Marose said Snow still spent a significant amount of time with her mother
after she was put in Lopes' custody, especially in recent months, given
Lopes' busy schedule. But Left Eye's motherly side definitely had an effect
on the child, starting with her diet.
"Nutrients, I drink juice, 100 percent natural juice," Lopes said of her
strict dietary beliefs. "I am the type of person that is here to make
everyone look at the back of the juice bottle. I am that person that has got
to make you recognize that you cannot always judge a book by its cover. I
drink a lot of water. I drink sea moss. When you eat just to satisfy your
hunger you are not getting the right nutrients. When you fill yourself up
you are not giving your body what it needs to be healthy and grow."
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"I have premonitions, and one of those is that the 16th was the day to release
my project."
