Ex-Basketball Wife Carlita Hodges Dishes on R. Kelly and the Pitfalls of Celebrity Marriage

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 17, 2014 - PRLog -- It appeared to me when we got home, that Craig would lose his damn mind. Even with us still being very close, things were changing. Craig was becoming, in my opinion, very arrogant. He started asking me to do things you don’t ask a wife to do-once again, they were sexual things. I wasn’t sure where it was all coming from-it could have been that he got some bad weed. I had these moments when I thought he was cheating on me again, and maybe he was.” Excerpt from Carlita's Way: Out of the Dark, Into the Light (My Journey).

When Carlita Hodges (http://www.carlita-hodges.com/) met and married her first love, Chicago Bulls guard, Craig Hodges, she never imagined that her life would be filled with secret affairs, drug addiction, and a devastating betrayal that would haunt her for life. In her new tell-all memoir, Carlita’s Way: Out of the Dark, Into the Light (My Journey), Carlita reveals her traumatic yet empowering journey as a celebrity wife who overcame years of media scrutiny, abuse, and betrayal that almost shattered her self-worth and happiness. Now a revered author, speaker, domestic violence and women’s advocate who is garnering national media attention, Carlita Hodges reveals the downside to fame and being married to a celebrity athlete. Reports from both the New York Times and Sports Illustrated have estimated that the divorce rate for professional athletes is around 60 percent and may even be as high as 80 percent.

Fame, affairs, and traveling are the top reasons for the high divorce rate for celebrity athletes. In Carlita’s Way, Carlita Hodges comes clean about life as a celebrity basketball wife. “Before my ex-husband got drafted in the NBA, we were inseparable. We definitely loved each other, but fame brought out different sides of him that I never knew existed. There were drugs, women, and other red flags, but I didn’t listen to my intuition, and felt that things would get better. Although all marriages have challenges, women who marry celebrity athletes face a different set of issues that people don’t talk about. Infidelity, abuse, and homosexual activity are just some of the things wives of celebrities have to deal with behind closed doors, says  Hodges.

“A lot of celebrity wives live unhappy lives behind the cameras, and are pressured to do things that undermine their self worth just to keep their relationships. If they don’t give in to the pressure, they will be quickly replaced by women or even other men. Although many reality TV celebrity wives flaunt their lavish lifestyles, and seem happy on the outside, many of them suffer from depression, low-self-esteem, PTSD, and other emotional struggles.

Many are heartbroken because at some point, they realize that they have sold their souls for a fantasy,  and they feel trapped, abandoned, and alone.  I wrote Carlita’sWay: Out of the Dark, Into the Light (My Journey), (http://www.carlita-hodges.com/) to educate women and make them aware that nothing is more important than self-love, self-actualization, and being independent. No amount of fame or money is worth enduring any type of abuse. We are taught to put money and men first, but we must love and honor ourselves first, look past the fancy cars and diamond rings, and see a man for who he really is,” states Carlita.

View the book trailer for Carlita’s Way: Out of the Dark, Into the Light (My Journey), here:http://youtu.be/2kQqUehGyQ8



About Carlita Hodges:

Former model and ex-celebrity basketball wife, Carlita Hodges, is a highly sought after empowerment speaker, author and writer. She has garnered local and national press, including Eurweb.com, Madame Noire, The Chicago Defender, Café Mocha withMc Lyte, Loni Love, and Angelique Perrin, and many others. View her interview with Niki Woods, the senior producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, here:

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For more information on Carlita Hodges or to purchase Carlita’s Way: Out of the Dark, Into the Light, (My Journey), visit www.Carlita-Hodges.com.

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