NEW PICTURE OF LAURYN HILL WITH 4 OF HER 5 KIDS AT A MARTHA STEWART BOOK SIGNING.

Since the release of her solo album ten years ago, Lauryn Hill has been something of a recluse. But apparently the way to get her out of the house is to host a Martha Stewart book signing. The two feminist icons met at a book store in New Jersey last week. But what's really going on with Lauryn? I'm just not understanding why she chose to paint her lips with black soot. Or does another substance the cause of the color of her lips? I'm well aware that she'd fallen on tough times and had become a bit mentally unattached over the past several years--the breakup of her long-term romantic and professional relationship with Wyclef Jean, the disbandment of The Fugees, the domestic problems with, Rohan Marley, the married father of her five children as well as the most anticipated and subsequent failure of making a comeback after she soared to the top of the charts with her Grammy Award winning debut solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill over a decade ago-- but still?

Well, at least her brood looks happy and content, thank God. Lauryn and her five kids: son Zion David Hill-Marley; daughter Selah Louise Marley; son Joshua Marley; and son John Marley now live with her mother in her hometown of South Orange, New Jersey. The couple's fifth child is a baby girl who was born in early 2008. Marley told People magazine that although the baby is 7 months old, she is still without a name.

To read more about the mystery of Lauryn Hill and the three years of estrangement from her former band mates, Wyclef and Pras, click HERE.
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