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Additionally, as Page Six reports, Smith also celebrated her surprise roller skating party that boasted a handful of her friends and loved ones including hubby Will Smith, MC Lyte, Toni Braxton, Jordyn Woods, NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns, and Lauren London. (Debbie Allen was presumably present as well, as noted in her appearance at the 73rd Emmys on Sunday where, after being surprised by Pinkett-Smith in her introduction, she quipped: “I was just skating at her 50th birthday; she didn’t say a thing” before accepting the Governors Award.)

Previously speaking on the revelations she’s had in the years leading up to her big 50, Smith, who along with daughter Willow and mother Adrienne (aka “Gammy”) was recently named one of this year’s Time100, told People she’s over “convincing people” who who she really is:

“I’m done with convincing people. I just feel like, women taking back our power, in any form that you need to, to be done with the convincing. That you’re smart enough, that you’re pretty enough, to convincing people that you’re worthy. Coming into the last four years for me has really been about that transformation about coming to the self and having acceptance for the self and having to go through many different kinds of personal journeys; to come to that place of really grounding myself in that understanding. That’s been the most beautiful part of almost turning 50.”

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You can tune in to the “Jada’s Surprise 50th Birthday Celebration” episode of Red Table Talk when it premieres Wednesday, Sept. 22, only on Facebook Watch.

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