Mo’Nique has a message for anyone dreading a milestone birthday: forty is a good thing. The comedian and Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins star turned 40 at the end of 2007 and says she has never felt freer.
She has brushed off the idea that 40 is the new 20, saying she has no interest in going back. In her telling, the confidence that comes with age has improved everything from her relationships to her comedy, and she is enjoying life more now than ever.
It is the same frank, no-apologies attitude that made her one of The Queens of Comedy and keeps audiences coming back to her stand-up.