Yvette Nicole Brown, 52, Hopes Her Engagement Encourages Other Women

Actress Yvette Nicole Brown, 52, and her fiancé Anthony Davis want women in their 40s and 50s to know it’s still possible to find love.

“To be my age, to be single as long as I was single and to have waited — you know, I didn’t just grab a guy, I waited until I found the guy my heart loves,” Brown told Curtis Stone in a recent podcast.

“That’s a testimony and that’s also aspirational and inspirational to women that are in my position,” Brown tells Stone.

She says women shouldn’t feel pressured to find love because of their age.

“I would love for a 40-something or a 50-something woman to see this story and go, ‘Okay, it’s right for me to wait for the right one, or to not just marry whoever asks me first if I don’t feel it.’ It is still possible,” Brown continues.

Davis states that he had given up on dating until he met Brown.

“In life sometimes things happen and you think, ‘Okay, I’m done with dating. I’m not gonna deal with this anymore,’ and then in comes somebody who’s pumping your heart, helping you breathe and you don’t even realize it,” the actor says.

He says their relationship “manifested itself over just friendship.”

“We’ve known each other since we were in our 20s. We were in an acting class together at church years ago,” Brown said during an appearance on “The View” in December.

She said Davis was married at the time, “and we were platonic friends, and then we lost touch for a few years.”

It wasn’t until after Brown’s mother died in 2021 that he reached out again. “Then he found me,” she said. Brown clarified that he contacted her “after he divorced.”

Watch an excerpt from the interview below.