There were undoubtedly thousands of other "average-looking" Black women who would have been equally willing to compromise themselves, and yet who failed to achieve her level of success.
I've never watched her tv show, but I assume that she must have a level of "smarts" far beyond the average.
Regards,
Born from a one night stand to a single teenage mother.
Became inner city Milwaukee girl pregnant at 14. (Inner city in this case I suspect is code for near North side which was the "black ghetto" then and still primarily is. Rife with prostitution.)
Child dies, moves to Tenessee to be with a man who is questionably her father and winds up in radio while still in high school.
Local tv personality by 19.
Fast start for a kid. Kids make bad choices. Bad people play on the poor choices made by others.
Have you ever noticed that prostitutes, even ex-prostitutes, tend to have some rather weird relationships with people they let in to their personal lives until the day they die?