“And so everyone was thin and white and young, and I was playing in the same rooms that they were and having the same success. It wasn’t like I was working in streetwear - I was working in luxury,” Smith says. Because I was working in the superficial and very white world of fashion, because I was working in luxury. “I never thought that my age, or the way I looked, me being dark skinned and having short hair, and being curvy - I never thought that any of that would be something that would hold me back. Smith says she never let her age, gender, race or body type limit her in what she dreamt for herself as possible. Once I decided it was what I wanted to do, I was like, ‘I can do this,’ but I had no idea that it would take so long to get it done.” Like, ‘Oh my God, the world is my oyster I could do whatever I want.’ I just didn’t have that angst about it. I approached it like I would think a 21-year-old girl would approach something. “So I literally went into this idea that I could become a TV personality with a lot of youthful optimism. I’d already proved naysayers wrong my entire life, not to mention my entire career,” Smith says. I’d already achieved things that no one predicted that I would be able to. “I let my past successes fuel my future ones. It would take her another five years to fully process what she was feeling and leave the $350,000 job for $35,000 and the pursuit of her dream: becoming the personality we know today as Bevy Smith, the current host of SiriusXM’s “Bevelations” on Radio Andy and a former cohost of the “Page Six TV” and Bravo’s “Fashion Queen.” Despite the glamour of flying to fashion weeks, sitting front row and rubbing elbows with fabulous clothes and famous names, Smith first began to feel dissatisfied with the path at 33. Smith, who is 54, spent the first part of her career as a media executive, working at Vibe and Rolling Stone in her 20s and 30s. “Because this book is about the pivot, the reinvention and also going through arduous times and coming out on the other side of it and still managing to be grateful while you’re going through these valleys, it’s actually really a great time for me to be talking about this book, as I believe that a lot of people need to hear the message,” she says. On June 3, 2014, Smith appeared as guest co-host on "The View".Smith, who has written “Bevelations: Lessons From a Mutha, Auntie, Bestie” - out now from Andy Cohen’s imprint - says that, in fact, she’s been able to find some meaning in the timing of her book’s release. The live special featured Smith as she interviewed several friends of Houston to share memories of the late singer. ![]() On February 18, 2012, as a BET News correspondent, Smith hosted "BET Remembers Whitney Houston. She is part of the cast of the new Bravo reality series, "Fashion Queens", with Atlanta-based stylists, Miss Lawrence and Derek. She is also the founder and host of "Dinner with Bevy", a social networking event held in New York that has become one of the most coveted social events currently organized. Smith was the senior director of fashion advertising at Rolling Stone and fashion and beauty advertising director for Vibe magazine. ![]() She has contributed to Vibe, Essence, Rolling Stone, Latina, Glamour, and Interview, among other publications, and has also appeared on pop culture programs on VH1, E!, Bravo, TV One, BET, HLN, Access Hollywood, and Oxygen. She rose to fame writing and talking about pop culture, fashion, and entertainment. She also hosts a daily one hour show on Sirius/XM.īevy Smith was born, raised, and still lives in Harlem, New York.
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