Evelyn Lozada gets saved, vows abstinence, says ‘Jesus didn’t die on the cross for us to be side chicks’
Article By Rebecca Johnson // EEW Magazine // Abstinence
Reality TV star Evelyn Lozada who was baptized in 2013—at the same time she said she was saved from sin— is doing it all over again.
Following an embarrassing and nasty showing on Season 8 of VH1’s “Basketball Wives,” the 43-year-old is posting social media photos of her latest baptism and is announcing she has accepted Christ and is “done with premarital sex.”
“Your body is a temple. Jesus didn’t die on the cross for us to be side chicks,” she said in an interview with Baller Alert.
Evelyn Lozada and son Carl Leo Crawford attend the premiere of Netflix's "Green Eggs And Ham" at Hollywood American Legion in Los Angeles (Credit: Getty)
The last time Lozada announced her commitment to Jesus was following her failed marriage to former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson that ended in a public domestic violence incident and her hospitalization. She filed for divorce just 41 days after wedding the athlete.
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Leading up to her evolution nine years ago, Lozada made an appearance on OWN’s “Iyanla Fix My Life” and hired Christian life coach Tony Gaskins, Jr. who encouraged her to be baptized.
While her previous life change did not last, she is adamant that she is serious about changing her life this go-round, including her bedroom habits. “I’m done with premarital sex,” said Lozada who shares a 5-year-old son with her ex fiancée, former baseball player Carl Crawford.
Evelyn Lozada gets baptized (Credit: Instagram)
According to Lozada, she is choosing abstinence because, “In those relationships, I lost a piece of me.”
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These days, the single mother and entrepreneur seems to want to find herself and redefine her life. “I feel like I want to be able to be an example. I want to be able to speak to young girls from where I came from. I want to be able to inspire other people, especially young girls [and] young women, to be able to just really love themselves and really honor themselves,” she said in her interview.
Lozada uploaded images from her baptismal service on Monday, Nov. 18 amid ongoing backlash for using racial slurs against her costars and being violent toward them, prompting thousands of “Basketball Wives” fans to start a petition to have her removed from the show.
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Though some are skeptical of Lozada’s renewed faith journey and view it as nothing more than damage control, she said, “I’m not living my life for Instagram [or] Facebook, I’m living my life for my family, my kids, and God.”
According to her, her new life in Christ “stems from me feeling like my way wasn’t the right way.”
She added, “Something was missing. My soul needed something positive.”
