Name |
Tameka Foster |
Height |
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Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
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Place of Birth |
Oakland, California, U.S. |
Famous for |
Modeling |
Tameka Foster is an American model, hair stylist and wardrobe stylist and the ex-wife of singer Usher. Foster has worked as a personal stylist for Lauryn Hill. Foster attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in 1994, followed by a Merchandising Marketing major in Los Angeles.
Her professional career started with her employment as a salesperson; she has also worked in management. During her attendance of the Fashion Institute, Foster briefly worked for Armani in the retail store and since then, has styled numerous international celebrities including Jay-Z, Ciara, Nas and Mary J. Blige. Foster's work as a stylist gained attention of network cables MTV, E! and Access Hollywood. Foster is credited as the founder of charity organization The Lost Ones Foundation, founded in 2009. The organization is a non-profit and serves as a motivational group for teenage girls. In 2006, while still married to Ryan Glover, Foster became involved romantically with singer Usher, who had hired her as a stylist. He proposed to her in January 2007 and announced their engagement in February. They married on August 3, 2007 in a private ceremony.
Foster's fourth and Usher's first child, son Usher Raymond V, was born in November 2007. In December 2008, Foster gave birth to her fifth son, Naviyd Ely Raymond. In February 2009, Foster suffered from cardiac arrest in a São Paulo, Brazil hospital. She had been there to get a liposuction; however, the procedure was never performed and she was put in a medically induced coma to aid her recovery.