Marvelyn Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marvelyn Brown
Occupation	Autobiographer
Date Of Birth	May 7, 1984(1984-05-07)
Age	40
Birthplace	Nashville
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Taurus

Marvelyn Brown Biography

Marvelyn Brown is one of the most popular and richest Autobiographer who was born on May 7, 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Brown Born on the 7th of May, 1984 on the 7th of May, 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. In her autobiography, she reveals that she was constantly at war between her mom, however the two have since reconnected. There are two half- siblings whom she remains in touch however, she hasn’t seen them in person because they reside in a different country than her.

On the 3rd of October in 2008. Brown wrote on her blog about how she was accused of making fun of her condition. “I am constantly being accused of glamorizing AIDS. Really? There is nothing glamorous about taking 7 horse pills that still make me gage [sic] after 4 1/2 years taking them. I contracted a 100% PREVENTABLE disease, people, which that is my message, not how glamorous I look doing it!”

Two days earlier, she elaborated on why she had written The naked Truth, adding, “I wrote The Naked Truth because I wanted people to get the full story and not a sound bite or the one-hour preping speaking engagement. Most people can’t identify with who I am now because I am HIV-Positive but they can identify with who I was before. That is what makes me relate and shows people that I am just like them. This virus is real and just because you are ignorant or uneducated about HIV that does not make you immune. That is why I wrote The Naked Truth. I can’t be everywhere but my story can.”

Her efforts to help others has earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding National PSA and she was awarded the Do Something Award in 2009. She was honored in The Heroes In The Struggle Photo Exhibit by The Magic Johnson Foundation and The Black AIDS Institute in 2010 and was named an Modern Day Black History month hero by BET and was recognized in The New Jersey NETS in 2011. She has been as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, America’s Next Top Model, CNN, MTV, BET, and The Tavis Smiley Show. She has also been featured on Newsweek, Ebony Magazine, and Real Health magazines. The public-service announcement she did on behalf of Think MTV won an Emmy Award. Brown was recognized as an individual among the Top 25 Heroes of the last 25 years of the AIDS epidemic, along with Alicia Keys, Magic Johnson and Phill Wilson. Her work has been featured in British magazines like Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Pride and Fabulous Magazine. She has also been featured on the covers of A&U, POZ, and The Ave.

Marvelyn Brown Net Worth

Marvelyn Brown is one of the richest Autobiographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marvelyn Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marvelyn Brown (born May 7 1984) is an author of African descent also an AIDS activist. She is the creator of Marvelous Connections, an HIV/AIDS organization that was founded in 2006. She wrote her autobiography the Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive that tells her tale as a heterosexual young woman with HIV. She has given public speeches and has made appearances on the public stage across various countries, including the United States, Bermuda, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico as well as in the Virgin Islands, South Africa, Tanzania, and Rwanda.

With no knowledge of HIV, Brown was unaware of the possibility that HIV can be transmitted through heterosexual sexual relations. Brown was a well-trained basketball and track player, however, she began to exhibit signs of an unknown disease that eventually became so severe that she had to place her in an ICU. The doctors were unable determine the root of the disease as Brown began to question whether she was suffering from HIV. The diagnosis of HIV-positive was made at 19 years old in 2003. She was able to determine that she contracted the virus through her then boyfriend. When speaking to The Body, Brown stated “How did I not know that the virus was sexually transmitted? I felt I had been robbed by my community, my school and my church. The mantras I had heard over and over again growing up — ‘Don’t do drugs; don’t get pregnant; don’t smoke’ — suddenly seemed so worthless. Never had someone mentioned the possibility of me, Marvelyn Brown, contracting HIV from unprotected sex. I had seen it as something only Africans or gay men got.”

On September 23, 2010, Brown held a press conference at the City College of New York. She educated attendees on the dangers of unsafe sex and HIV, for which she was required to accommodate to a new lifestyle. She shared that her medications often cause her to experience side effects, and recalled having to take forty-two pills in one day. However, she stated her average intake is eight pills a day. She commented that her illness is like “having a baby” to her because there’s no vacation while taking medication. She openly stated she had previously wished to die, but after surviving a car accident is glad to have been given a “second chance”, and says she has found God, to whom she gives thanks every day for still being alive today.

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Marvelyn Ranked on the list of most popular Autobiographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Marvelyn Brown celebrates birthday on May 7 of every year.