![]() "I don't care if you have money or you don't have money, it's hard." "It was hard, not even without the money, it was hard to raise two kids by yourself," said the Hampton University graduate. And being a single parent was just plain tough, she said. Her younger daughter, London, who will turn 2 next week, was just one month old when Vick went to prison. It hurt."Įverything in her world that she knew came "shattering down," she said. But Jada saw a TV report and broke the news to her mother: "Daddy's not going to training camp, he's in jail," Frink recalled her daughter saying.įrink said she "was sad. Vick "would tell her he's going to training camp," Frink said. Besides those two nuggets, Frink declined to offer further details.īut for a while it was rough seas for the pair after Vick's arrest, especially when her older daughter, Jada, who turns 5 later this month, had questions. The two are planning their wedding for next year and are pondering which city to marry in. "It seems like we're getting out of the storm right now." "I wanted to stand by him and hopefully he stands by me with whatever I face in my life going forward," Frink said. "What kind of a woman would I be 'cause the money went? "I love Michael with all my heart, and I felt like you just don't stay with a person just for the good times, you have to toughen out the bad times and in between," Frink said yesterday, over lunch at the Union Trust restaurant in Center City He later filed for bankruptcy protection.įrink declined to discuss the dogfighting case, saying only that "that chapter is closed, it's in the past and we have brighter things to look forward to."īut the Bodine High School graduate, who grew up loving art and fashion, said that she wasn't about to leave her man and the father of her two daughters when he headed to prison. Vick, a former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, served 18 months in federal prison for bankrolling a pit-bull dogfighting operation at a property he owned in Virginia. Malachy's Church every Sunday and worked at the Foot Locker in the Gallery - and is at the side of her fiance, Vick, 29, the high-profile quarterback signed by the Eagles over the summer.įrink admits that the couple had to navigate "a storm," but now, she said, "the puzzle is back together, my life is fixed right now. Kijafa Frink, 28, is back in her beloved hometown - she grew up in Yorktown, attended St. The two soon exchanged phone numbers, "And we've talked to each other every day since," she said. The North Philadelphia native was quickly informed about Vick's football prowess, prompting Frink to halt the flirtation because she didn't want this Vick character to think that she was "a groupie," she said.įrink moved further away, out of view, but Vick found her. "I was like, 'Who is Michael Vick?' " Frink said. It was January 2001 and the buddy told her that the young man was Michael Vick, a standout football player at Virginia Tech. " 'Do y'all know who that is over there?' " Frink recalled him asking. ![]() THE YOUNG MAN and young woman caught each other's eye from across the room, smiling and flirting for all to see in a Hampton, Va., restaurant.įinally, a friend of the man's walked over to the young woman, Kijafa Frink, then 21. ![]()
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