Actress Elinor Donahue (“Father Knows Best”) is 73.
“It just depends on what my life may bring.” The birthday bunchĪctor Hugh O’Brian is 85. “My last hiatus was because I had my children two years apart, they’re 2 and 4 now, so they’re at the ages where I can step back out and travel,” she says. Now that she’s back on the scene, Monica would like to make more albums consecutively, but says she’s not sure she won’t take years off like she’s done in the past. She says she’s in negotiations with the network for a second season. One thing that’s helped is Monica’s reality show on BET – also titled “Still Standing” – connecting the R&B songstress to a younger audience. “Still Standing,” her fifth album, debuted at No. “When I say I’m not who I used to be, I mean that some of the things that’s happened in my life, they were just consequences to my own actions, me not making great decisions, me not picking the right people to be around and keep in my company,” she explains. That’s why on her new CD, “Still Standing” – her first in four years – you’ll hear a familiar refrain from the singer proclaiming how, on the verge of 30, she’s fully matured. (after The Storm/Miss Thang (CD) Monica Super Hits (CD) Monica Makings Of Me (LP) Monica The Makings Of Me (CD) Monica After The Storm Limited Edition. The suicide of my first love, the death of my grandmother, the loss of a lot of different things that happened in the public eye that I didn’t get a chance to step away and grieve and live like your average person would,” says Monica, 29. Buy The Makings Of Me (CD) by Monica (CD 10.98).
“I experienced a lot of different hardships. Monica, who debuted at 15 with the multiplatinum-selling CD “Miss Thang,” wasn’t one who succumbed to celebrity pitfalls as a child star.