Ayesha Curry is the girl boss we all aspire to be and she is proof that basketball wives are far more than mere trophies. As she and her husband rose to fame in the sports arena, the multi-talented mother used her talents to become an icon in her own right.
In February, she revealed her pregnancy with Baby Curry #3, but she recently took to Instagram to share the news that a bun in the oven isn't the only thing she's been cooking up. She announced that she's hosting a brand new cooking game show on ABC with a grand prize that could buy a whole lot of groceries for one lucky family. She posted on Instagram:
"So excited I FINALLY get to talk about this. This mama has been hard at work on a new exciting project!!! I'll be hosting and exec. Producing a new competition series for @abcnetwork called Family Food Fight!!! 8 families from across the country will go head to head to claim the title of America's number 1 food family! Not only that... they'll win $100,000."
Family Food Fight will be the first major project for Ayesha's production company, Yardie Girl Productions, and will add to her long list of food-related accolades. The 29-year-old Canadian-American mogul mommy is also the CEO of a wine company, restaurant, and meal kit delivery service and was the first woman to be named a CoverGirl who is not currently pursuing a career as an actress or singer.
Ayesha released her own cookbook, The Seasoned Life: Food, Family, Faith, and the Joy of Eating Well where she shares personally curated recipes, and garnered a number of guest appearances on various cooking shows before starring in her own in October of 2016. Ayesha's Homemade, later called Ayesha's Home Kitchen, was given two six-episode seasons on The Food Network and gave fans an in-depth look at what it was like in the personal and professional lives of the Currys.
Ayesha shared that she has been cooking since she was 12 and told People in 2017 that she had always had an affinity for cooking, because in essence, it is an act of love. She said:
"I am a firm believer that food makes people feel something. It makes people feel good, warm and happy. That's the most rewarding thing for me, when someone takes that first bite and I see a smile. It's probably the same adrenaline rush Steph gets when he plays a game."
She admitted that her current pregnancy has been difficult, but she still makes time to kill it in the culinary world. Ayesha positioned her brand to have an extremely lucrative portfolio, and still makes time to be a great wife and mother. She is proof that women are pretty much superhuman.
Though we don't have an official release date for the new show, I can't wait for Ayesha Curry to heat up the summer with details on how me and my family can get hooked up to win that $100K!
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Skylar sees things differently. At the time, she was shooting content on her iPhone. Temi came into the picture with a new perspective, an understanding of tech, and, eventually, a camera. “He doesn't give himself enough credit,” Skylar says. “He wasn't just my tripod. He wasn't just standing behind the camera and going ‘click.’ He was giving advice. He was giving me insight to how I could look at things from a different perspective. And I was like, 'Oh, he’s an artist.' I think it was maybe a heartbeat of that kind of energy of like, ‘Baby, can you take this picture?’ And it turned so quickly into, we're partners. We can work together in a way where we're advancing each other's creative thinking.”
The pair often says they’re two sides of the same coin. Skylar is an Aquarius. She attended art school, paints, and loves poetry. She’s more than happy to let the couple’s management firm and agency, Kensington Grey, handle their admin work. And, she loves to sleep in. Temi, on the other hand, wakes up early. He’s a Virgo. He loves a to-do list and regularly checks in on the couple’s brand partnerships spreadsheet to make sure everything is on track.
Because his storytelling was steeped in his love of technology, he didn’t always think of himself as a creative person. “Where I [am] the dreamer who wants to pluck things out of the sky and spend all day with my head in the clouds, Temi [is] so good at grounding me and helping me figure out how to make things make sense on paper. We just work together in such a complimentary way,” Skylar says.
It’s been more than six years since Brooklyn-based couple Temi and Skylar started dating, and nearly four since they cemented their working relationship. On TikTok and Instagram, the couple’s travel, fashion, and home content regularly rack up hundreds of thousands of views. They’ve worked with brands such as Coach, Aesop, Away, and Liquid IV, bringing their vibrant perspectives to every campaign they execute. Still, nearly two years since both Temi and Skylar committed to full-time content creation and creative directing, the couple says their romantic connection remains their priority.
“We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting,” Skylar says.
Working from home can make it hard to separate work from personal life for any entrepreneur. It can be even more challenging when your business partner is also your lover. Temi and Skylar had already used couples therapy as a tool to help them effectively communicate with one another. When they ran into challenges while working together, their therapist helped them set physical boundaries to help combat the issues.
"We told each other we would much rather go back to full-time jobs and preserve our relationship than to be full-time freelancers, barely getting a night's rest [and] barely kissing each other because we're so busy shooting."
“It actually took us doing very specific physical things to create boundaries between work and play in our relationship,” Skylar says. “So, for instance, we will only have conversations about work when we're out of bed or we're at the table or in the office. Initially, when we started, we had to light a candle to say that, 'Okay, this is a space where we're connecting, we’re not talking about work.' We needed really hard boundaries at the top. And then it became a little bit more organic.”
The boundaries have been crucial to implement, especially because the couple began working together so naturally. When the pair first met, Skylar was NY-based a social strategist for BuzzFeed and was using content creation to drive business to her lingerie company. She was shooting her own content. Temi was working for Microsoft in D.C. He’d recently traded in his DJing equipment for a camera. “I've always loved taking pictures,” he says. “Even when I was a kid, my African mother would wake me up at 3:00 a.m. [during a] party, and be like, 'Come take the family picture.'”
Growing up, Temi says he watched his parents support each other and be the true definition of partners. He knew he wanted the same for his own relationship. But, the couple also wanted to make sure they were being financially responsible. The pair didn’t quit their traditional jobs until they’d saved up two years' worth of their cost of living. And, Temi received his Master of Business Administration from New York University with the knowledge that it could either help him advance in his corporate career or be applicable to his business with Skylar.
Temi and SkylarCj Hart @hartbreakToday, they say their working relationship is more of a “quiet dance.” They still implement some of the boundaries they learned in therapy, but they also lean into their natural strengths and deep love for one another. When we speak, Temi has planned a date for the couple to see Princess Mononoke in 4K IMAX and added it to their Notion so they can factor it into their busy schedules. “I fully plan to date for the rest of my life,” he says.
Skylar says the couple doesn’t just wait for date nights to check in with one another, though. This often happens in the mornings, after Temi has made her peppermint tea and poured himself a cup of coffee. When they ask each other how they slept, she says, it’s not just a “nicety.” It’s a genuine question meant to foster connection.
“A lot of it happens during the day in the midst of work. We'll stop and we'll hug. Or we’ll slow dance in the kitchen,” she says. “Sometimes it's hard to set a whole date night when you have 7,000 things going on. So, we must grasp these moments and check in when we can. And I think it's become so organic to us that I actually didn't even realize how often we do it. But all day long, we're like, 'Are you good? I felt like your energy shifted,' because we're best friends, we just know. We just feel it happen.”
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