Jackie Christie

Jackie Christie became popular after marrying NBA player Doug Christie. This gave her the opportunity to star in the well-known reality show, ‘Basketball Wives LA’. The show took her name to great heights and earned her considerable fame. The credit for her popularity also goes to her outspoken nature. Jackie and her husband started a reality series ‘The Christies: Committed’. The show highlighted their professional as well as personal lives. However, this show only survived for six episodes and was cancelled before airing its finale. Afterwards, Jackie Christie started writing and became a book publisher in the year 2007. Later on, she started a fashion line with the name ‘Slayed by Jackie Christie’. She even managed to open two companies—Jean Fya Records and BSM Media. These are a music production label company and an entertainment firm respectively. Jackie Christie is very popular on social media as well and has earned thousands of fans. As of now, the American beauty has 301K fans on Instagram and 695K fans on Twitter respectively.

Having ventured into book publishing in 2007, Jackie Christie has written a number of books: ‘Woman’, ‘No Ordinary Love’, ‘Sexual Relations’, ‘Proud to be a Colored Girl’, ‘In The Land of Sex & Money’ and ‘Luv Pons’.

Jackie Christie created a furor when she posted her topless picture on Instagram. According to Christie, this incident was unintentional. She immediately removed the photo, but unfortunately some people had already downloaded the controversial image and further shared it online. This incident nearly led to her divorce as her husband was naturally furious because of this controversy. However, she managed to mend her marriage after assuring him that it was merely an accident.

Jackie Christie was born on July 7, 1969 in Seattle. She was involved in an intimate relationship at an early age which resulted in the birth of Takari, her eldest daughter, in 1990. Her daughter used to live with Christie’s mother who died in 2012. Jackie met NBA player Doug Christie when Takari was three years old. The couple married in 1996 and together raised a son, Douglas Jr., and a daughter, Chantel. Note that Doug and Jackie met through a common friend, Stevie P, who had felt that the two would be perfect for each other. Today, the couple has been married for more than two decades.