Mary J. Blige has achieved a lot in her decades-long career, but she’s not interested in retiring anytime soon. “I’ve done pretty much everything that I want to do,” Blige, 53, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of cutting the ribbon at New York City’s Ghirardelli Chocolate & Ice Cream Shop.
“The boxes have been checked.” Blige went on to say that she might be ready to hang it up in “a couple of years,” but she’s still enjoying herself at the moment. “Sometimes I get fatigued, you know what I’m saying? I’m tired,” the R&B icon said with a laugh.
“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.
” But whenever she finally does retire, Blige has some ideas about how she’d like to spend her golden years. “Retirement looks like traveling the world,” she explained. “Going to places I’ve never been before.
Relaxing. Being on yachts and in homes and just enjoying the fruits of my labor.” Blige’s second album, My Life , will turn 30 in November, and she’s already celebrating — the LP is one of her favorites.
“That’s my baby,” she told Us . “Because it shows the difference between where I was and where I am. I was in such a dark state of mind.
And life was not something that I wanted to live. When I had to make a choice and when I made the choice to love myself, those are two different dynamics. .
.. I didn’t want to live, now I want to live.
So I .