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Bernadette Stanis’ road to success started after she starred in the hit TV show Good Times. Due to her inspiring acting, most African-American women wanted to be just like her. Although she had a bright career ahead, she surprisingly went into early retirement by choosing family over career. Let’s assume she already made investments and got insured before she retired even though she is still a well-known writer.

Before rising to fame, Stanis joined beauty pageants and dreamed of taking part in Miss Black America and become known as Miss Brooklyn when she won the Miss New York pageant. She then appeared on various TV shows, most notably in The Cosby Show episode Adventures in Babysitting in 1991 and The Wayans Bros. episode Unspoken Token in the year 1997. Outside television, Stanis was featured on rapper Positive K’s Car Hopper’s music video. In 2019, she appeared on ABC TV special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Good Times.