Tisha Campbell Says She’s Never Been On A Real Date

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JULY 05: Tisha Campbell attends the National Urban League Women In Harmony Awards Luncheon during the 2025 Essence Festival Of Culture at The Ritz-Carlton on July 05, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tisha Campbell makes a shocking revelation about her dating life. 

During a recent interview, Campbell said that she has never been on a “real date.” She said, “I’ve never really had been asked on a proper date by a man to this day in my life.” Campbell continued, “I always had boyfriends, so I went from boyfriend to boyfriend to marriage.”

She was later asked how she ended up in relationships without going on dates. She replied, “I was always like a catch or they wanted to snatch me up, so I always had boyfriends.” Tisha Campbell was once married to fellow actor Duane Martin for over 20 years. 

They tied the knot in 1996, but Campbell filed for divorce in 2018. They have two children, Xen and Ezekiel, whom they coparent. She went on to reveal that she hasn’t dated many men. “I don’t have a long roster, I don’t have a you know a long body count, so I just went straight from that to marriage, so the whole dating thing is all new,” she added. 

In a 2022 interview with Ebro In The Morning, she discussed how hard it was to find herself after her divorce. “One of the things that goes through your mind is ‘Who am I outside of this person?’ I took marriage, my wifely duties… and being a mother, that was at the forefront of everything. Career came second. I had to find myself.” 

Tisha Campbell has been open about rebuilding and rebranding herself, which included her getting a “mommy makeover.”

“I recently got plastic surgery. It was a mommy makeover. I had extra skin from the baby, and a little bit of drop this here, and a little bit of drop this there, and they tightened me together,” she said. “We should be feeling good about ourselves, you know? I’m a single mom, not ready for dating, but I just wanted to feel good for me. First of all, I’m an open book. Second, I just think it’s more important to know why one does it.”