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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Mary J. Blige will retire "in a little while"

    The 53-year-old superstar has been in the music business for more than 30 years and even moved into acting but has now decided that she has achieved everything she wanted to and will give it all up within due course


    She told Us Weekly: "I've done pretty much everything that I want to do. The boxes have been checked. Maybe [I'll retire] in a couple of years. Sometimes I get fatigued, you know what I'm saying? I'm tired.

    "I've been doing this for 30-something years. So, in a little while, it'll be time. ... [But I'll be] working hard until then."

    When the 'Family Affair' hitmaker does bring her career to an end, she has plans to travel the world and enjoy all that she has worked hard for.

    She said: "Retirement looks like traveling the world. Going to places I've never been before. Relaxing. Being on yachts and in homes and just enjoying the fruits of my labour."

    The Grammy Award-winning star - who split from Kendu Isaacs in 2018 after 15 years of marriage - has seemingly changed her mind on when exactly to retire, as in April she explained that she would probably be looking to do so by the end of the decade.

    She told US TV show 'Extra: "Mary is singing about life. Life... love... being stable and understanding you can have things like love. You can have a good life. "Right now, I'm definitely gonna do some more acting and I'm definitely gonna retire in, like, five or six years.

    "Right now, I'm still doing what I'm doing but not as often as I was doing it because I don't have to now."

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