Tami Roman: TV Personality Focuses on the Bible After Miscarriage, Defends Out of Wedlock Relationship Against Critics (Interview)
When she joined "Basketball Wives" in 2010, Tami Roman became known as a spitfire of sorts who engaged in numerous altercations that resulted in people petitioning to have her booted from the VH1 reality television show. Years later, Roman has found her way back to the world of reality television but is leaning on God to fight real life struggles like a recent miscarriage that took place when cameras stopped rolling.
Roman, the 45-year-old reality television star that got her start on MTV's "The Real World" in 1993, understands there are people who perceive her television persona as someone who doesn't make her Christian faith a priority in life. But the seasoned actress who has appeared as a series regular on shows like CBS' "Moonlight" and "Extant" insists that is far from the truth.
"I know that people see me on the reality shows and they think I'm not a Christian, that I don't live a Christian life. Contrary to popular belief, when I go through situations, good or bad, I lean on the Word,"Roman told The Christian Post.
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"So when Reggie and I lost our child, for me it was just turning to Scripture and understanding that everything is going to happen on God's time. You know, for every purpose, there's time and judgement."
Roman, a mother of two, was expecting her first child with former New Orleans Saints player Reggie Youngblood, her 28-year-old boyfriend of two years. While television audiences are witnessing the pair publicly work through their issues on the WE tv reality television series "Marriage Bootcamp," they are leaning on God to get through the tragedy of losing their unborn child that she carried for 10 weeks.
Two years ago, Roman lost her mother, Nadine Buford, after a battle with cancer. On her mother's birthday, she lost her unborn child with Youngblood. The pair announced the loss to the world last July, and Roman is still trying to cope with it all.
"I just viewed it as 'OK, it's not the time' and asked for renewal and strength to be able to just move on, press on and knowing that this wasn't the time for that particular moment because God knows what He has planned for me and I just have to trust in Him and not lean on my own understanding,"Roman said. "If it's meant for me and Reggie to have a child, then that moment will present itself again."
More than having to deal with her recent loss, Roman has had to endure backlash from people who've not supported her relationship since she's working on building a family with Youngblood without being married.
She spoke about the amount of judgement she has received from the Christian community and defended her decision to live with her boyfriend without actively seeking to marry him.
"I've actually had people comment that I'm not being a good example to my children, so I just wanted to touch on that and say the word has no specifics on marriage. What I mean by that is there is nothing in the word that says two people need to be legally married for there to be a covenant between them and God and share a union," asserted Roman, a mother of two.
"What the Word does speak to is two people need to operate as one flesh, to have a covenant between themselves and God and for that situation to be an eternal 'til death do us part' type of moment. So although Reggie and I aren't legally married on paper, we have made a conscious decision to live as a married unit without being legally bound to that situation."
