“Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum Cynthia Bailey discusses why she and Leon Robinson never got married despite sharing a child and maintaining a friendship for over twenty years.
Cynthia & Leon’s Relationship
Cynthia began dating Leon in the late 1990s when she was working as a model, and he was working in the film and music industries.
“I knew I was gonna meet Leon… just from seeing his movies,” Cynthia told TS Madison during her appearance on the November 18 episode of “Outlaws with TS Madison” podcast. “I would literally be like, ‘I’m gonna meet him one day.’ I knew there was going to be a connection. From the first time I met that man, we locked eyes, I knew it… I knew that he was my person.”
The couple welcomed their daughter, Noelle Robinson, in November 1999, and separated shortly after.
“I think we were put together to have Noelle. Noelle is his one and only. Noelle is my one and only,” Cynthia explained. “We had a good time. We had a beautiful time. When I was with Leon, that was the first time I was really in love… It was a beautiful love story. It really, really was. And I still love Leon… a lot of love and respect for him. I just didn’t feel like, at that time… I still don’t feel like I’m his person in that way.”
The Reason Why Cynthia & Leon Never Wed
“Why didn’t you marry Leon?” the Outlaws host asked Cynthia.
“I’ve never been asked that question before,” Cynthia admitted. “Okay, so, I did not marry Leon because I felt like, at the time, he’s an artist, I’m an artist, he’s a creative, I’m a creative, he’s a Pisces, I’m a Pisces. We are literally the same people in so many ways.”
“And I just felt like, Leon as an artist, and he’s a true artist, that man was born to be an actor, that is what he does, and a singer,” she continued. “I felt like he needed the type of partner that could really nurture that.”
“He needed someone to let him be the artist,” Cynthia explained. “It’s tricky when you’ve got two artists, and everybody’s going for the same thing. I mean, I’ve seen it be done, but I felt like I wouldn’t be able to fully just nurture his talent and the things that he needed from a partner, because I was still figuring out what I was doing… I needed a partner that maybe was not so much doing the things that I was doing.”
