Cynthia Foreman

Cynthia Lewis Foreman was born in Houston, Texas to a single mother who worked sometime more than two jobs to support the two of them. Cynthia completed her formative education in Houston, attended the University Of Southern California, as well as studied acting at H. B. Studios in New York City. As a teenager her accomplishments included winning the title of Hal Jackson’s Miss Black Teenage America in Madison Square Garden, commercials for Pepsi Cola, print ads and guest appearances on syndicated television series. 

At twenty, she was married to the Heavyweight Champion of the World, George Foreman after her marriage was dissolved she worked numerous jobs trying to regain stability in her life. It was a very painful time in her life but she discovered during a fundraiser at her church for the youth department that people enjoyed her petite sweet potato and pecan pies.  So, for the next six years in addition to full time employment, she sold the pies after church on Sunday afternoons to pay for private school for her daughter.  After her daughter when to college, Cynthia stopped making the pies and moved to Oakland, California.      

For the next five years, Ms. Foreman wrote, performed and traveled the country in her one woman show, “Bruised, But Not Broken” which are excerpts from her life on stage.  In “Bruised, But Not Broken” she plays six characters (two men and four women).  Ms. Foreman performance’s received rave reviews at The National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, The Golden Triangle Links, The Los Angeles Women Festival, The African American Museum Coalition/Library, Laney College, Canada College, Women’s History Month at the Black Box Theater in Oakland, California, and several other college campuses as well as various organizations have booked her one woman show for their fundraisers.   

But it wasn’t until a year ago, when after performing Ms. Foreman resumed doing what she had done in Houston to provide extra income… baking and selling Sweet Potato and Pecan petite pies which she called Sweetie Pies.  Again, the response was overwhelming, so much so that she was allowed an opportunity to place her Sweetie Pies in a local neighborhood store, where the owners Mr.  & Mrs. Lonnie Bates supported her entrepreneur spirit.  With the encouragement from others, Cynthia began mailing and delivering Sweetie Pies all over the country as well as in the Bay Area.  Her Sweetie Pies have been used for The Summit Bank Foundation Golf Tournament, Grand Openings for businesses, birthday parties, In-store promotions, Campaign Meetings, Client gifts, Office Parties, etc… 

Celebrities such as William “Bill” Russell and Joe Morgan have enjoyed Sweetie Pies as well as members of the NFL Retired Players Association Convention 2006.   

“I have been touched and humbled by seeing little children put their coins on the counter to buy Sweetie Pies.  It makes me feel good knowing that the ingredients are all natural as well a healthy choice for them even though they are buying it because they like the taste.”   Cynthia Foreman