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Behind-the-scenes with Bravo TV’s Married to Medicine

The show’s Dr. Simone Whitmore completed her residency in Boston

Colette Greenstein
Colette Greenstein has been a contributing arts & entertainment writer for the Banner since 2009. VIEW BIO

“You’re either a doctor or married to a doctor” is the premise of Bravo’s Atlanta-based reality series, Married to Medicine, now in its third season. However, each of the six women—Dr. Jacqueline Walters, Dr. Simone Whitmore, Dr. Heavenly Kimes, Toya Bush-Harris, Quad Webb-Lunceford, and Lisa Nicole Cloud—all are accomplished in their own right.

Speaking recently with Whitmore and Webb-Lunceford by phone, the Banner learned a little bit more about two of the players.

Dr. Simone Whitmore has an undergraduate degree from Spelman College and went on to earn a medical degree from East Tennessee State University. From there, she came to Boston, where she completed her four-year residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center in 1997. Looking back on her time in the city, she has “lots of good memories of Boston, the Cape, Martha’s Vineyard.” So much so that she recently returned to Boston for a family vacation.

In addition to being a board-certified OB/GYN, Whitmore also runs the medical practice North Perimeter OB/GYN in Duluth, Georgia. The married mother of two boys also is a speaker on women’s health issues and leadership. That’s important, she says, because even with the challenge of juggling her career, family and the TV series “…speaking on women’s health issues, educating the public, especially educating African American women will always be important to me.”

If you watch

Married to Medicine airs on Bravo on Sunday nights at 9pm ET/8pm CT. Follow Dr. Simone on Twitter @ABSOLUTELYQUAD and Quad @DRSSWHITMORE.

Quad Webb-Lunceford, Whitmore’s castmate, was born and raised in Memphis, Tenn., and graduated from Nashville’s Tennessee State University. Webb-Lunceford later worked in medical sales for ten years before marrying psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Lunceford in 2012. The budding television personality includes “businesswoman and entrepreneur” in her resumé. “When we all started this, we had no idea the journey it was going to take us on but for me, I always go into any situation with a positive plan and outcome,” she says.

Indeed, during season two of Married to Medicine, Webb-Lunceford launched Picture Perfect Pup, a puppy couture canine clothing and luxury brand. She was inspired by her two dogs Khloe and Kar’rie, so the business was a perfect outlet for her passion for fashion and dogs. Picture Perfect Pup is just the beginning of building a brand, Webb-Lunceford says. “The plan that I came in was never to just be a reality star. It’s to kind of take a moment and make it blossom and build it to an empire.”

Community, family values

With Atlanta as the base, Webb-Lunceford believes she’s in the right place for living out her dreams. “There’s something about the tenderness and the sweetness of Atlanta, where they’re very open to new ideas. I think entrepreneurship is the gold standard here. They’re so many people, while they are educated they still go into business for themselves.”

Married to Medicine certainly has afforded the two women numerous opportunities. Whitmore has appeared on the daytime television series The Doctors and Webb-Lunceford recently completed her first movie called My First Love, co-starring Pooch Hall, Gabrielle Dennis and Carl Anthony Payne, which aired on BET. She’s looking to continue acting and recently signed with powerhouse agency Creative Artists Agency.

As far as viewer expectations for season three of Married to Medicine, Whitmore says there’ll be a lot of drama but “you will see a community event, you will see a trip to the Bahamas. We really offer it all. We show what it’s really like raising a black family in America, because everyone on the show is married. Most of the families are raising children. We offer a wide range of things to the public, not just drama. You see a lot with our show.”

As for Webb-Lunceford, viewers will see her more involved in the fashion arena and with her canine couture business. “You’ll see a lot also with Picture Perfect Pup going on to the next level. You’ll also see Canine Companions for Independence, which is a national organization that utilizes canine support dogs to help disabled senior citizens, children and adults,” she says.

She goes on to add, “There’s so much more to me than what you see on television. You only get a chance to see a small portion of who I am. My heart is golden.”