Bern Nadette Stanis, Portrayed "Thelma" on the Hit TV Show "Good Times" 

The Black community needs more Thelma's.

Thelma was Undeniably Beatiful!! And I hope she knows how much she was loved and adored...I am so glad to see so many black men representing their admiration for her...Just awesome

"What's around you, doesn't have to be in you" what a great saying. She's very well spoken

She's still beautiful, even her actions were gracefull and elegant ❤️

Such a beautiful woman.

Still Gorgeous, and get this folks.....without cosmetic surgery !!! ALL NATURAL!

Holy crap....she's in her 60's???? Wowwwww. She looks beyondddddd amazing!!! I always thought she was beautiful but she looks freaking awesome at this age. Wow!! She's beautiful!! Love her

She aged so beautifully. Better looking than most celebrities her age.

Dang, She is one fine woman. Seems to get finer with age! Godbless "Thelma".. Godbless..

Bern Nadette is still beautiful after all these years

Thelma is such a class-act!

I have always loved Bernadette. She is gorgeous and a lovely woman! She always had a positive spirit. She is so beautiful. We should be wearing her on a tshirt, instead of these little black girls walking around with Marilyn Monroe on tshirts. No shade to Marilyn Monroe, but we have plenty of black women in our community that we can look up to and aspire to be like and they go unnoticed!

Thank you Ms. Stanis for sharing your journey and hard life lessons, but more importantly for sharing the fact that you stayed FOCUSED and were able to overcome every obstacle! You’re beautiful from the INSIDE out. May God continue blessing you!💞

Bern Nadette as beautiful as ever. It was a pleasure to hear her talk.

When you’re good, you do good and you look good.

Good Times will ALWAYS be a hit. Great show 4ever

Wow what an awesome interview. What a classy lady. Keep it up and loved Good Times!

Regardless of skin color, she was and is so beautiful, I always had a crush on her when I was a teenager. Thank you for the laughs and making everyone’s life better.

The finest woman in the 70s and she still fine

I love the proud way in which she mentioned her hood.. I also love the fact that she touched based on race to let us know that it was important to her.

She still looks good for 40ish years later.

This woman is such a beautiful soul that is deeper than just falling in love with the TV character "Thelma". I don't know her and never met her, but from the two interviews and unsung, I can feel it. May God continue to bless her and I pray to meet her one day

😱 That was such a deep story Bernnadette shared.

Thelma so good to see you Bernadette. You are looking and sounding beautiful.

You are beautiful, and you made it on tv and became famous, and those biracial children probably didnt make it in your shoes. Kudos on your life! You are awesome.

She is gorgeous. She needs a show of her own today!! She would be an amazing role model for all, that is if they keep it classy and not trash like most shows.

She's always had a dazzling smile. How I'd love to just say hello to her and tell her how much the show meant to me.

What a gorgeous woman.

What a beautiful and kindhearted lady! I loved to watch Good Times!

My favorite show when I was a child, Learned a ton of lessons from this sitcom... Which is strange. I was a victim of abuse, And this show touched on that and many other issues.

Wow She is still stunning.I have experience ed that a lot in my life being a dark skinned women.People view light skin as better but i am beautiful and I love me so I don't care what others have to say about me.

That woman is beautiful!

I was in love with her the minute I saw her, a true queen!!!!!!

To this day, this is one of my favorite tv shows! I’m a child of the 70’s, my older brother and I couldn’t wait to watch. I own this dvd box set. I still wish Thelma would have married Larry the mechanic. Lol! FYI, I’m a Hispanic female. Not that it matters, but I just want you to know, this show crossed all ethnic backgrounds!

I been watching Good Times as a kid and I still watch it today ..Thelma is so beautiful she's one reason I watch the show .because basically the show portray a real black family . john Amos and Jimmie walker actually made the show funny

First teenage star I was in Love with......Bern Nadette "Thelma" Stanis. Still looking GOOD Times

I had just arrived in Baltimore shortly before the show began airing in 1974 and I made every attempt to catch each episode. I cared absolutely nothing about the dialogue, or the theme of the show, or whatever. The only thing I wanted to see, was this beautiful girl named, "Thelma."

Good Times was a hit show in the 1980s as well. By 1983 I was only 5yo. And for the next 5 yrs, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons we're big syndication hits. We all as Native Hebrews have went thru that jealousy and envy from our enemies. Bernadette, you have hundreds of thousands of your true own men who loved you as a so very beautiful teen during the show and especially the woman you are today. Let the dead bury the dead.

She still has such beauty & such grace!

I still watch Good times every weekend. I try to stay away from all the corruption by watching Good Times, Standard and Son and Golden Girls. Thelma is still stunning! Love it!!

Bern Nadette Stanis would be more famous if she would of done what jimmy walker asked her to do...make a poster like farrah fawcett did....all the men were in love with bern nadette....but norman lear and john amos attacked jimmy walker for suggesting something like that so it never happened

Thank you for your testament Bern. I sure looked up to you as a kid. As a little Chinese girl in the 70s growing up in the projects watching Good Times was my salvation. My parents wasn’t around much as they were slaving away at their menial jobs so this show taught me lots of lessons and how to appreciate black culture and families. They should bring this back shows like this today so we can benefit from learning about all communities.

Bern Nadett dont let that worry you ,your a STAR now !!!!!

Still BEAUTIFUL Bernadette! I bet those girls would love to invite you NOW! "Good Times" was special, it's a sweet memory of my youth😊🌼😊

She was always hot and even now she's hot. No way is she over 60. Her skin is flawless.

What's around you doesn't have to be in you, smart man Bern Nadette's daddy....wish you the best beautiful lady inside and out

Every show that Norman Lear put his name to he would always have a lesson in the story, Good Times, Sanford and Son, All in the Family, Maude etc 💖

She was the first black girl I ever saw on TV or in life. Needless to say I thought she was absolutely beautiful and had my first crush. To see her now confirms that it is indeed absolute. Thank you for the lessons of life and fond memories.

BEAUTIFUL Bernadette Stanis 😍

Beautiful Woman , truly Beautiful !!

She will forever be my life long crush. I was raised on Goodtimes and im still in love with her😘

She's still Beautiful and my favorite Character in "Good Times" love her...👍👍👍👍👍

painful lesson. but she stayed focus. I love her character on Good Times

Good Times started in Feb. of 1974, not '75.

BEAUTIFUL PERSON!!

Still beautiful. She was then, she is now. Not sure if many of you remember her role but there were so,e scenes where she was AMAZING. Very talented lady.

We all Loved Thelma and wanted to be like her… I use to keep my hair in Afro- puffs 🥰

I love you Bernadette Stanis May God bless you You were my role model growing up in the seventies as a teen seeing a black girl on TV You are My Queen my inspiration. you go girl with that black girl magic you were smart focused and made me want to succeed I am 65 now with three degrees thanks to your presence in my youth

Love that show, it had a lot of Energy and Seriousness.

Girl you still got that good stuff, I'm in love all over again. Thanks

Love and respect/blessings Ms.Stanis

I really enjoyed & loved the show "Good Times ". I learned some valuable & very good morals from the show. I think you did a awesome job Mrs Stanis .

Was just watching this show with my grandma, she hasn't aged much!

I always loved this show.

I love Bernnadette. She is one classy woman. So much respect for her work.

I would like to say that Ms. Stanis made it to television and other successes and those other little girls didn't, that we know of...and was a beauty that many of us little girls wanted to be like!

RIP, Esther Rolle, and Alton 'Ben' Powers.

that is a true saying what around doesn't have to be in you.

I wish I could turn back time and get those little girls to invite Bern Nadette to lunch. That ached my heart.

She's one of the most beautiful women ever born. Such a smart n classy lady. God 🙏 bless her ❤️

My first t.v. Girlfriend, lol I had just emigrated from Scotland, saw her and like any healthy young lad, I fell in love.

What a beautiful and wonderful attitude you have

She is still just as nice to this day I her last week and she was great

Well Bern Naddette you know now that your more beautiful, adored, loved and welcomed around the world.

I saw her at the Los Angeles Taste of Soul one year and she tried to clown me I didn't understand her purpose was it because she was on good times? That day I changed the way I feel about her

I can relate to that story so much.😪

Bernadette you were really gorgeous on good times. And still look great today. God Bless

The crazy part is,Thelma was the prettiest little girl on the elevator of them all. The designed wicked system of white supremacy, which has been in place for centuries is cruel!

So "Thelma" was beautiful inside and outside. Massive crush on her when I was a kid.

Bernadette. I grew up in Brooklyn as well. I went to Our Lady Of Lourdes Church where my cousin was a priest and then St.Brigid's. Academy.I even studied dance at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. I wonder if you had. I just wanted you to know that not every European family was that way.Sometimes I think it was the uneducated parents only who acted that way. Anyway I will share my own experience. There was a black family who lived down the street who's little girl was my friend. Well one day I had dinner at her house so when I went home my grandmother said "Let's get ready for dinner ".I said that I wasn't hungry and informed her that I had catfish for dinner at my friends house. "Catfish" she said somewhat alarmed. (I'm guessing she did not know what people from where they came from ate ),so off she took me to their house to inquire about the dinner. Well all went well. Awhile after that the little girl gave me a doll. She had brown skin. I was around 6 so we called it a dolly . Well back then we were not allowed to cross the street without a grownup so as someone watched , I crossed but was instructed never to stop for any reason. I dropped my doll and could not stop to pick her up. The worse thing happened . A car ran over her and I ran home screaming that she was dead (smile). My sainted grandmother sewed her leg back on ,replaced her missing eye with a button and with me she stayed in a place of honor as my favorite doll. I want black people who may be reading this to know that my people and many others who were from New England and Europe were abolitionists . Not all stories are sad like Bernadette's. One last sad thing however. The first time I ever heard the "N" word I was in the South where I lived for a while with my mother and her second husband. When I got a little older and understood what the word really meant I knew why we had the Civil War- the price of ignorance.

Still BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

I am white. Grew up watching "Julia" and "Room 222", "That Girl" and then on to "The Jeffersons" and "Good Times", also watched "One Day at a Time", "The Waltons", "Cagney and Lacey". It's about relationships. Sure, some were comedic, some dramatic, but showing the range of emotions and the relationship dynamic that ANYONE can relate to, just made them memorable. Whether they were white or black didn't matter. (had a crush on Lloyd Haines from 222) What mattered was the relationships rang true to me and I was invested in them.

I got to meet her when she did a play in Indianapolis Indiana in 2000 and she looks so amazing she hasn't aged a lot she is a very talented woman and she is a sweetheart of a classy woman should be all I could say to her ( you still look amazing) if you meet her you're be tongue tide

Ester Rolle was a very respectable woman...at an intimate NAACP after party she saw me having fun/flirting amongst the starlets...while finishing looking at her, she could be heard referring to me as a "Jr. Flip."😊 That is ole' school ya'll. Someone said Ms. Stanis was at a table during the "2015 Selma to Montgomery March" ceremony...my only regret during those days was not seeing her in person. ;) Yes, it was certainly novel seeing her in that role each week...no wonder, she was the first...Wow.

Loved that show and loved her character No matter what success you have in life you can't take away pain like a that To rob a kid of their innocence....

She was intelligent, courageous, spunky and gorgeous 😍❤️❣️!!! Still looks great 👍🏾 today!

Wow ... She is still just as beautiful as she was in the 70's !!!

They had to help the writers Fup the English language is what she meant to say. But, yes, it worked / fit for that show. Top two favorite sitcoms ever, All in the Family and Good Times.

She is still beautiful at this age.❤

how the hell is she still do fine????😍😍😍😍

I just love her. Beautiful person inside and out. Watching Good Times, I could never understand how and why the JJ character was always calling Thelma ugly and making fun of her looks. I know it was scripted but even as a kid I found it unusual because she was always so beautiful.

Watched Good Times this morning and I still have a crush on Thelma!

Still beautiful after all these yrs, boy had a big-time crush on her

Bern NAdette is still just as gorgeous as she was way back then on the show.

finest woman ever on tv

A actor is always in character

She still look beautiful and she has a beautiful voice.💜

This lady is still a straight beauty. Its a shame she didn’t get more roles after good times ended. In my opinion she had everything needed to be a mega star. But I guess her dignity, self respect and pride wasn’t a fit for holly wood. She was class personified and remains a class act. She truly represents the type of woman I always wanted.

She should have more roles for the excellent performances on goodtimes

Beautiful person, inside and out