ILOSM family here’s an fun face of information for you. It is about a Good Times actress; “TaeBo” fitness guru, Billy Blanks; and Billy’s son. Billy Blanks is the dad-in law of an actress most of us Old Schoolers remember very well. See who she is below…
Billy Blanks son has been tied knot to his “Good Times” actress wife for 16 years. Remember the “Breaker, Breaker” episode on Good Times? That’s the ep’ when ‘Michael Evans’ was chatting it up with “Fun Girl” over the CB, only to discover out that “Fun Girl” had conveniently forgotten to tell him she was in a wheelchair.
Well, her original name is Sharon Catherine Brown-Blanks, she is married to Billy Blanks Jr., and they have one son together. Who would have thought it?!!
Sharon and Billy Jr.’s wedding had it’s fair share of trials and tribulations though. See the very random information they gave about their struggles.
In a 2011 interview, Billy Blanks Jr. and Sharon Blanks opened that they were once homeless and living out of a motel. Both of them are fitness instructors who taught fitness classes at a Cali gym at the time and they worked hard to hide their homelessness from people.
Billy Blanks Jr. used to peer out of the window of his room at the 777 Motor Inn to make sure no one was looking, then fast-walk with his wife, Sharon, via outdoor common area and into the parking structure of the trendy Sherman Oaks Galleria. When the duo emerged from the other side, they acted as though they’d just come from one of the Acuras or Range Rovers parked in those spaces, and not from a budget motel.
After they walked into the 24 Hour Fitness, they laughed and shook their hips as they led a high-energy aerobics class. No one had any idea the Blankses were living on the edge, and just steps away from being homeless.
Asked during a not so far interview how he and Sharon made it via tough times, Billy looked at his wife and said simply, “It was love.” “I’d go back and look at it all and through all of it, it’s been constant that I love her and she loves me. We have this relationship. Even when we were staying in the hotel, we knew we’d be able to move out.” By 2011, Billy Jr. and Sharon were able to build their brand with a line of workout DVDs, titled “Dance With Me. But in an effort to push the DVDs out to the masses, they appeared on business reality TV show, “Shark Tank,” with the hopes that one of the show’s investors would offer them a great deal to distribute their DVDs