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It was all in a day's work for iVillage when we were invited to spend four days with Brandy at the Half Moon Resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica, to celebrate the launch of her new album, Afrodisiac. But honestly, hanging with a celeb is like playing Russian roulette. Will she be cool? Will she be on time? Will she answer the tough questions? Or will four days with Brandy feel like being trapped in a Divas Live special? For a "work" trip to Jamaica, this was a risk we'd have to take.
Only 25, Brandy has powered through life at a breakneck pace. Since she sold four million copies of her debut album at 15, she's starred in her own TV show (Moesha), dropped two more albums, garnered five Grammy nominations, costarred with Whitney Houston in Cinderella, dated Boyz II Men crooner Wanya Morris, attended the high school prom with L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant, married and divorced record producer Robert Smith and appeared in one of MTV's first reality shows, Diary Presents Brandy: Special Delivery, which documented her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter (with Smith), Sy'rai.
photo credit © Half Moon Resort