Essence Atkins Net Worth
Attractive African American actress Essence Atkins earned a lot of money through her successful Hollywood career. Besides several famous movies, Atkins made a fortune as Dee Dee Thorne in Half & Half and Suzanne Kingston-Persons in Are We There Yet? Her total net worth is estimated to be about $5 million as of 2015.
Atkins dated several famous men. List of her ex boyfriends includes Eric Benét, Ron Truppa, and Ace Young. She broke up with Ace in 2007. But Essence didn’t gave up on men and created a profile on a dating website Match.com where she met professional football player Jaime Mendez. It turned out to be the love of her life. They first et in 2008 and in 2009 was already a wedding. They are still married in 2015.
She gave birth to their first child named Varro Blair Mendez in 2011. But before Essence decided to become a mother, she agreed to do the most daring role of her career. In 2010, Atkins starred in crime thriller N-Secure as Robin Joyner. In this role, Atkins revealed a lot form her perfect figure. Needless to say it made her male fans very happy.
Some of her other important roles were on Love for Sale, The Bachelor Party, A Haunted House, and My Sisters Wedding. her net worth continued to grow and she has very nice nest egg today. We’ll see if she decides in future to continue in her career or focuses on family instead.