{"id":738715,"date":"2022-01-07T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/watch-brandy-looks-back-on-cinderella-and-whitney-houston-im-still-not-over-it\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T06:02:41","slug":"watch-brandy-looks-back-on-cinderella-and-whitney-houston-im-still-not-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/watch-brandy-looks-back-on-cinderella-and-whitney-houston-im-still-not-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Brandy looks back on &#039;Cinderella&#039; and Whitney Houston: &#039;I&#039;m still not over it&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Brandy-looks-back-on-Cinderella-and-Whitney-Houston-Im-still-not-over-it.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Brandy reminisced on her 1997 <i>Cinderella<\/i> film that also starred Whitney Houston while appearing on <i>Good Morning America<\/i> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><i>GMA&#8217;s<\/i> Michael Strahan mentioned how the film is entering into its 25th anniversary and asked Brandy what it meant to her to be the first Black <i>Cinderella<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It meant everything to me for young girls to be able to see themselves, that look like me. I thought that was so powerful that Whitney invited me to be a part of something so historical,&#8221; Brandy said.<\/p>\n<p>Brandy said it was her dream to meet Whitney Houston as a child and that she learned so much from her, calling it life changing. Brandy had also begged Houston to play the part of the Fairy Godmother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still not over it. She&#8217;s like my angel,&#8221; she continued about her experience with Houston.\n<\/p>\n<p>Brandy currently stars in ABC&#8217;s <i>Queens <\/i>and also discussed her experience rapping against Eve on the series. Brandy also performed a freestyle on <i>GMA.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212; Brandy reminisced on her 1997 Cinderella film that also starred Whitney Houston while appearing on Good Morning America on Thursday. GMA&#8217;s Michael Strahan mentioned how the film is entering into its 25th anniversary and asked Brandy what it meant to her to be the first Black Cinderella. Advertisement &#8220;It meant everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}