ANTONIA ON DATING: “YOU CAN’T BRING EVERYBODY AROUND YOUR KIDS”
Throughout the years, Antonia “Toya” Carter has gained much wisdom about love and life. She was once married to one of the biggest rappers of our times, Lil Wayne. Since divorcing Wayne in 2004, Antonia says that she has learned so much. Read below as Antonia talks about dating as a single mother and much more.
On what she looks for in a partner:
I don’t like a softy softy but I don’t like a thug either. The reason why is because I don’t need any thugs around me. I have a daughter. I need someone who is well-established, not into a lot of BS, and very family-oriented. Someone that is cool and not on no dumb stuff. You can’t just bring everybody around your kids. I’m dating. I need someone I can bring home to my daughter. Not just anybody can come around her.
On her thoughts about Lil Wayne being incarcerated:
No one wants to see anyone in jail, especially their kids’ father and husband. Wayne and I have a great relationship. That’s just not anywhere that I want to see him. He’s never not been accessible. As long as we’ve been talking or dating I’ve never not been able to pick up the phone and call him no matter what is going on in my life. Now he’s locked up and it’s not like that anymore. As far as my daughter, her and her father have a great relationship. She talks to him every day after school. She can still talk to him but now it’s on a schedule with calls. It’s going to be a change for these 8 months.
On how Reginae is dealing with the whole situation:
She’s saddened by the whole situation but we talk to her about it. Her dad talks to her. When he was going back and forth to court, we were all there: me, his other baby mamas, and the kids. Just being there for him, supporting him. This last time we didn’t go because it was so back and forth. We’d get there and he doesn’t go to jail. So this last time I didn’t let my daughter go because she was just up and down. It was like an emotional roller coaster for her. She was like, ‘I just wish I could have seen my dad.’
On her non-profit organization:
In the near future I am working with my company; a non-profit organization for under privileged kids. I just want to get that up and off the ground where I do different cities, mentor kids and I’m like a big sister to them. We do community events and things like that. And in the future I really want to do a clothing line.
On April 13th, a second season of her reality show, Tiny and Toya, starts.
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I read this article three times looking for the smart part you guys refer to & I don’t see it.
Seems to me she needs to let Wayne go period. As his ex-wife she does not have a reason to call him everyday. I can see the daughter calling him everyday but her? I don’t see it.
Seems to me she still relies on Wayne for alot of things.
But whatever.
They’ve been together since they were kids, they have a long history, marriage, the whole nine-yards and apparently a friendship on top of a child together.
What is wrong with that? Unless one of his girlfriends, current or future wife have a problem with it, then tell me, what IS the problem.
There IS NO problem other than he’s her ex.
They have been together since childhood & have a child together, soooo? Does that mean they are tied at the pelvic bone?
Every thing she utters is Wayne this & Wayne that. Pls…let Wayne go already.
And your point?
My point is what is it to you? You are the one going on about it. She is happy, Wayne is happy. End of story.
i lost brain cells after reading that mess
these hood-rats need to take that money their baby daddy wayne giving them and take up some type of schooling…main class should be sex ed..
I’m confused by this comment: “No one wants to see anyone in jail, especially their kids’ father and husband.”
Aren’t they divorced…???!!! And have been for sometime now…to the point Wayne has moved on and had other children by other women…Sooo who is Wayne a husband to, becuase I don’t recall him CURRENTLY being married to any of those girls…
Its good to see a young black mother improving herself and her quality of life and stopping detrimental cycles
Best of luck to Toya.
I don’t care for the term baby mama or daddy, but you got to understand that at heart Toya is a “hood chick”…baby mama is normal vernacular for her and the people in her life.
I feel her on the whole thing,It’s not easy finding the right one,no matter how the person is go or bad they will always have something wrong with them. Toya is telling the truth,you can’t trust anybody around your kids,you may think u know people but you really don’t.
I liked this interview the only problem I have is when she said the other baby mamas I hate that term with everything in me. Baby mama is so disrespectful if you ask me, why couldn’t she have said the mothers of his other children.
Anyways can’t wait for the second season of Tiny and Toya
Yeah, that part stuck out to me as well. I also can’t believe she lumped herself into that group of “baby mamas”. She’s his ex-wife, not just the mother of his child. I just dislike the term baby mama; it just seems degrading IMO.
she’s smart and she’s always gotten her priorities straight, she just needs to go back to school and finish, she’s too beautiful to talk like that
She will be okay, Do u know how many black men r in the prison sytem and leaving childrne behind. That end up fatheless and end prison like the Father. White people too. Not all, but to many. I just hope her daughter learns from her Fathers mistake and don’t date a guy who does not handle his business. Not a huge fan of Lil Wayne, but he seems to take care of his kids, And makes his daughter feel like a little Princess. So I wish them well. I hope he learns from his mistakes.
I did not see her getting any smarter. But she has grown mentally. Good for her and I like that she puts her child first. Before a man/ boyfriend.
I do not understand the comment that I do not like a thug….. I like Wayne but is it me or is he not a thug. Her current boyfriend Memphiz also seems like a thug….
christi maybe that is why she is so adamant about not wanting another thug in her life. once is enough! at least for some women – she doesn’t want to keep taking her daughter through the same thing over and over.
I went to college in New Orleans…my ex grew up on the same street as Wayne and they grew up together. He came from an established family and was a really smart kid. He actually went to the New Orleans school for gifted kids. Anyway they got married when she was 14 or 15 now they have a child together. She may have learned from that and wants to date a different type of man than the one that Lil’ Wayne projects. That’s what I got from that statement.
Enjoyed reading this interview. I don’t even know her, don’t follow her or her ex, but got good vibes from this.
That is great she is careful about who she brings around her daughter. The kid(s) should come first.