Tracee Ellis Ross<\/a> says she’ll choose the right partner when it’s time.<\/p>\n The actress appeared on the Tuesday (July 14) episode of Baby, This Is Keke Palme<\/em><\/a>r <\/em>and discussed her former sitcom, Girlfriends<\/em>. As Ross recounted, her character Joan spent “173 episodes for eight years talking about not being chosen.”<\/p>\n “And when I came out of that show, I didn’t realize how much my COMPLEX SHOP:<\/strong><\/a> Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what’s next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.<\/a><\/p>\n Ross, 53, added that she is “worthy of choosing the right partner” and doesn’t have to “sit around being a prize to wait to be chosen.”<\/p>\n “Which goes back to how you intro’d me,” Ross told Palmer. “That I am responsible for my own happiness.”<\/p>\n The actress has occasionally discussed her reasons for not settling<\/a> for the wrong partner, and last month, she was forced to shut down rumors that she was pregnant<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I mean, don’t get me wrong. I would love a partner, and I’ve had some wonderful dating \u2026 and some wonderful relationships. So, it’s not that. 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cells had taken that on, that sense of story,” the entertainer continued around the 22-minute mark of the video below. “I talk very publicly about the idea of being the chooser. And I don’t think I did it consciously to talk publicly about it, but it was a way for me unconsciously to reclaim that I am the chooser.”<\/p>\nRelated News<\/h3>\n
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