Legendary “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin said her recent medical problems have been resolved.
Franklin, who was rumored to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, told JET magazine in an exclusive interview, “I don’t have to talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors. The problem has been resolved.”
Good for her!!!!
You can read Aretha’s interview in its entirety all right here!
Conversations Of A Sistah 
YAYYYYYYYYY!!!
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Do they have support bras for women who are “extremely blessed” in the chest region? There is no need for the girls to hang to your belly button.
#cruelandunusualpunishment
#mybreastshurtforher
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*PRAY* She is healthy
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Long live the Queen!!!!
God Bless her and others who are on the road to recovery
I may feel like I am lacking in certain ares but I thank GOD for my health!!!
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@Daisy: Amen,amen,amen…
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I got off to a bad start with this post. I apologize in advance. I’m really glad to hear Aretha is doing well and she’s not on her death bed as everyone was making it seem. Continue on the road to recovery….
P.S. I still stand by my bra comment though….
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@Yvonne
she def needs a breast reduction or better bra there is no getting around that.
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The statement, “The problem has been resolved,” can be looked at two ways. Either the doctors have successfully treated her issue or she has gotten herself right with the Man upstairs. Either way, I will continue to *PRAY* for her.
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I glad ‘Retha is doing good!’ Maybe she was just retaining water or something.
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I glad ‘Retha is doing good! Maybe she was just retaining water or something.
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We expected that from you. LOL.
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Do they have support bras for women who are “extremely blessed” in the chest region?
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Thank GOD I was not blessd in that region. LOL.
I know legends want privacy but isn’t it their duty to talk about health issues so their followers will get themselves checked. Katie Couric is the poster gal for Colon Cancer.
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I hope ReRe isn’t making “light” of her condition.
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I hope ReRe isn’t making “light” of her condition.
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Unfortunately to me that is what it sounds like.
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“I don’t have to talk about my health with anybody other than my doctors.” — Aretha Franklin
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Good for you Miss Franklin. And I hope you are doing well. Wouldn’t want to start off this year by losing one of the greatest voices of all times.
(goes and puts “Ain’t No Way” on repeat again)
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She needs to slow her role on them dayum ding dongs and ho ho’s..
Its no secret that Ms Franklin has very poor eating habits.. which is the real reason behind the cancer issue.. my granny died of cancer and when I used to visit her in the summers, she’d make us these big ol plates of food, morning, noon and night.. but I wasn’t bout to eat all that ish.. RIP granny
Black people need to develop better eating habits and life styles.. we are killing ourselves.. I truly believe that HIV, and cancer are self inflicted
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Wow I don’t think everybody who gets cancer brought it on themselves. Very healthy and fit ppl do get cancer everyday sadly. Even toodles get cancer did they self inflict as well? Some cancer is genetic as well.
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I agree a lot of cancers are genetic, it runs in my family.
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and um spice, “THE DEVIL KNOWS YOUR FAMILY’S HISTORY 2” AND if you believe him he’ll take yall all OUT!
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@FLO: I hope you can go down to the hospitals and explain the 2 and 3year olds with cancer that they should have been eating right!
True some cancers are food related, but alot aren’t. Most are hereditary or genetic. A baby that’s been only on milk who develops cancer surely didn’t bring it on themselves.
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there are some genetic forms, HOWEVER we all know ms Franklin is eating herself to DEATH! just like my granny did boo, this is a common problem among Black people, that’s why I was fist pumping M Obama for her concern for kids nutrition. Obesity, cancer, diabetes are taking some of us of in droves.. I’m not over looking that issue. Its an epidemic- FACT!
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@flo: You made a gen statement and that is what I disagreed with. I am a health nut and gym rat so I don’t have a prob w/what was said.
I am gald she has enough tact when spreading her message. I never said Aretha was the pic of perfect health or eating habits.
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Daisy,
Im talking about pancreatic cancer, or cancer that is ususally ALWAYS caused by poor living habits, smoking, excessive drinking, hog head cheese, fat back eating.
Its an epidemic that is murdering our grandparents, older Americans.. for instance, Im sure my granny would have still be alive, had she put the damn turkey neck down and picked up an apple.. just sayin
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smoking, excessive drinking, hog head cheese, fat back eating.
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damn….Im gonna die!
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I hear you on that. I think when you generalized it and said that cancer and HIV is self inflicted… I think that part was to broad based. Yes we do eat all types of unhealthy is. But not everybody gets sick as a result. For example, my granny… died at 90! EVERYTHING had pork in it she cooked. My dad… is 95 and counting. Momma 70 and counting (yea my dad robbed the cradle) Doesn’t know what a smoked turkey wing look like in greens and beans, but will cook da H3ll out of fatbacks! (he from the south) Its bacon and eggs everymorning….just saying.
Oh the HIV thing… same thing.. children, rape victims, trusting wives/husbands, don’t self-inflict.
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Doesn’t know what a smoked turkey wing look like in greens and beans, but will cook da H3ll out of fatbacks! (he from the south) Its bacon and eggs everymorning….just saying
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🙂 My granny is 86 and she from Mississippi and she pretty much eat the same way…I think its more genetics than anything…
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@flo: I am a water junkie and was doing everything right yet was still recently dx as a type II diabetic due to genetics not eating habits or lack of excerise. So that is why I disagreed w/your org gen statement. I am on a call now and will hit the treadmill as soon as it ends. I believe in doing all you can to stay healthy and live long but you still never know when you may be hit w/an illness. I am thankful for my healthy as I said earlier.
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I think it is more genetics. I put fat back(salt pork), smoked neckbones and hamhocks in my greens. I will eat neck bones as a snack. LOL. I love a fried egg and bacon on my burger. LOL. Just because I am not obese doesn’t necessarily make me healthy, just like a fat person isn’t necessarily unhealthy.
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smoking, excessive drinking, hog head cheese, fat back eating.
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Ditto. I’m buying some pickled hocks when I get off work.
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as long as nothin is wrong with mashed potatoes and gravy I’m good!
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No disrespect meant, but the speculation going on in this very post is why Aretha said what she did about it being nobody’s business but her and her doctors.
Unless you KNOW her family’s history you can’t KNOW what caused her cancer, if it even is cancer.
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I Co-sign @Yvonne
Privacy is a precious thing!
So I say…Good for her!
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@Florida,
Lifestyle can be a factor I’m not in denial abt that but not always.
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Yeah Well, I hope her health issues were “resolved” positively. She’s a gem.
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Im confused…so she doesn’t have cancer?? If not good for her and God bless!
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I love you Momma ‘Re!!!!
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She reiterates why she talked to JET, “I know my fans are concerned. Let them know I am feeling great and coming along.”
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ReRe, if you wanted us to know what was going on, then why did you talk to JET? Nobody flucks with them unless they’re on the toilet doing the #2.
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@Justice, that was just plain nasty!
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wasn’t it @Starr, but im still lmao!!!!
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Im glad she is doing better and I hope she continues to do well. We just lost one queen we cant afford to lose another one now….
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“PROBLEM SOLVED”
Whew! I am glad! *clapping my damn hands*
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I’m so hoping what Aretha said is true. She is a true legend!
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I will try to refrain from any comments, BUT while she was getting surgery on her pancreas she should have them take out some of that fat….I know I would have…might as kill two birds with one stone!!
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corp
If you have certain health issues they won’t do any type of weight loss surgery
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Oh…ok….but isnt most of the time the weight causing the health issues? Im confused!
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Food can be suicide….eat right feel good.
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not if her heart isnt strong enough.. OH and obesity, like aretha has, can cause heart failure
Food can be suicide.. eat right.. feel good
@ Daisy- neither am I.. but I do bake as opposed to fry, and I MIGHT walk to the store, as opposed to driving… things like that can prolong your life and health.. ALSO- WATER people… PLEASE DRINK LOTS OF WATER!
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that’s why I was fist pumping Michelle Obama for her concern for kids nutrition. Obesity, cancer, diabetes are taking some of us out in droves.. I’m not over looking that issue. Its an epidemic- FACT!
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And Felicia,
That retarded ass Sarah Palin trying to diss Michelle’s prgram…I guess Sarah thinks everybody goes in the backyard and hunts for their dinner everynight..some of these kids that live in Chicago live in food deserts..and the only stores around are corner stores that sell old a$$ food and junk food! the government should take some responsibilty in what kids put in their mouths!
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Sarah palin isnt concerned with eating habits in her neck of the woods, because Im sure her community isnt flooded with mcdonalds and fast foods resturants, like Black neighborhood are.. Michelle is a Black wmoan, tending to Black issues… that’s why I love her
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Sarah Palin annoys and irks my soul her voice is like nails on a chalknoard to me
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Cancer is a sore subject with me because I have lost my grandmother and father to it both of lung cancer and yes they smoked cigarettes which is why I will never pick one up.
I like the fact that Michelle is trying to fight childhood obesity, she was in Philly over the summer at a new fresh produce supermarket and its ashame because the neighborhood didnt have a supermarket in over 10 years. Thats where the main problem lies. There are plenty of chinese stores, KFC and McDonalds in the neighborhood but no supermarkets. It starts at home and we need to cook better foods but if the poor cant get to supermarkets what do they do?
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ok I’m back…..
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ok…so jump in where-ever…
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I hope all is well with Aretha and she recovers.
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We all could look at Aretha and tell she was a walking medical book with all that weight but as long as she is on the right track I hope she is doing better with her health. You only live once, its easy for us to say what she should have done but no one knows her life.
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and Aretha is old school…thats how people back in the day ate and lived….its gonna take a long time to get people to eat right…I dont even understand why they sell all that ish at the store if its not healty..chitterlings, hog mawgs, and hog head cheese needs to be remove from the shelves…so it wont tempt people!
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so outside of smoking bad eating habits can cause cancer?????? I never knew
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theyre talking about like, breast cancer or kids poor with some sort of bone cancer. ..which is true and I will admit that I wasnt thinking along the lines of thoses issues when I made my statement…….
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if the doctor told me that I have to stop eating my crablegs, crawfish and shrimp…then I tell him to go ahead and kill me now…My seafood addiction is serious business!! I dont give a ish what they say..it makes me FEEL good when I eat it!!
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@Corp-my family had a troth of chiterlings at Christmas and New Years party I have never ate them but I understand what you are saying. Also people only start eating healthy if something major happens to them. If you have a heart attack you start eating healthy or lung cancer you stop smoking. People know the food and cigs are bad for you but they continue to do them.
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@Chi-my family had a troth of chiterlings at Christmas and New Years party
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I cooked some a couple of days BEFORE christmas cause I didnt wanna share them with my family…that is so fat of me…but I dont care..LOL!
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Ok this convo is making me hungry
*making a stop to the seafood spot around the corner from me for some crab legs*
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@Brown-my boss is fat like Santa and he is healthier than a man half his size lol.
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*hold shank in one hand with a mixin spoon full of potatoes and gravy*
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we can compromise, throw the broccoli in and I’ll put gravy over it and eat it!
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I Absolutely LUV The Original and ONLY QUEEN (In My EYEZ…)
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I Absolutely LUV The Original and ONLY QUEEN (In My EYEZ…)
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I agree
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meant to say kids born with bone cancer – I was thinking “poor kids”
my bad 🙂
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making a stop to the seafood spot around the corner from me for some crab legs*
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just had me about 2lbs today..they sure was good with that Lousiana Crawfish Boil Seasoning!!!
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I hope she really doesn’t have pancreatic cancer. My uncle was diagnosed with it just this Thanksgiving and didn’t make it to Christmas
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Hello All. May Arethea’s faith in God remain strong.
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We are living in some perilous times. Stay prayed up People. Peace.
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No lie…there is a chick in my dorm and she is a G cup (WTF). She doesn’t invest in the best of bras so when she sits down and lean back in a chair, they fall to the side. She had on a jacket one day and had it buttoned up and I swear they were coming out the bottom of the jacket.
She’s getting a reduction next month.
Thank the lord!!
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LMAO!!!!
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“She doesn’t invest in the best of bras so when she sits down and lean back in a chair, they fall to the side.”
Damn!!!! I would love to meet her!
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I say she had gastric bypass and a breast reduction. Because no one ever confirmed the pancreatic cancer story. God Bless her tho.
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Either way @Val: It’s called having Faith and not dwelling on the Negative but now dwelling on the Positive. I only pray for the best for Ms.Franklin, she has Favor and she know’s that. Peace
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I think one of the many things causing cancer is the additives and hormones put in our foods.
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I think one of the many things causing cancer is the additives and hormones put in our foods.
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Exactly. That’s a major factor that’s often overlooked, and our environment.
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I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think poor eating habits cause cancer. Diabetes and hypertension, yea….My Grandfather died of cancer and he was tall and slim for as long as I can remember…. #thatisall
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what is the issue with Aretha? She says it wasn’t her colon but the CAT-scan revealed what was wrong… K, geniuses, what’s the issue?
Any guesses??
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I’m so pleased to read that WHATEVA the problem it has been resolved!!! And Retha, I’ll respect your wishes!
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Good on her, I hope she enjoys a long and happy life.
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Your health problems are not resolved until you put the fork down and go to the gym.
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“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin said her recent medical problems have been resolved.”
Thank goodness. The internet rumors were so bad one night that they had me thinking the worse. Glad to here she worked it out.
Now maybe she can workout.
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This is a relief.
I hope she is with us for a long time.
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I hope that the Queen of Soul is truly healthy and I respect her answer.
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That’s wonderful! We need many, many more years of Aretha.
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I agree Kayla, it sounds like good news, so congrats to her. Hope she’ll be with us for a long time.
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