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Kelly Rowland’s First Experience with Colourism | Tan France: Beauty and the Bleach - BBC
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Growing up in the entertainment industry, singer Kelly Rowland recounts her first experience with colourism and how it impacted her self-confidence and perception of beauty.
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Too dark chocolate? WTF? She’s absolutely stunning, gorgeous, radiant and warm! Her skin tone is just simply beautiful!
exactly pure ignorance smh.
Colorism is embedded throughout our global society. I’m surprised you’ve never noticed but I’m glad you don’t agree with it
Ebony Tool Man Productions website design: too dark chocolate 🍫. QUAYAGE: 1980.
Okay... but don't act like you don't understand that people are colourist. Like obviously "wtf" and 1000% to all you said about her, but the reality is that people don't care about ANY OF THAT, they associate being darker as being the exact opposite of everything you said about her.
@@musiclover-cn7tb ignorance is when you don't know. They know exactly what they're doing.
I always thought Kelly was the most beautiful lady out of Destiny's Child. Still do, quite frankly 💚
I came here to say just the same!!!
I totally agree and still is. And she speaks well also.
Absofcukenlutely!! Without question
@@melanatedqueen : I concur with you and all commenters above.
It’s the same as the darker Sista in Hous Party movie, she was much more attractive than the lighter skin chick.
Not hating on light skinned Black people, but some times they have an inflated ego.
@@richbarrett6380 you hit the nail on the head. Oh man, the stories I cld share are endless. "Friend" & other friends made a plan for first friend's bday bash - a dinner. First friend says last minute I want to introduce you guys to new boyfriend, everyone objects because most were single and those with others wld have of coz wanted to bring them. She does anyway. Guy didn't get introduced somehow and I got bored & I left with my best friend. Followed out by two guys who offered we go to another place which we did. Hooked up with one of the guys on said evening and woke up tomorrow to a mil plus messages of first friend asking if anyone had seen a guy wearing ABC driving ABC car. My brain caught up with self & realised he was in my 🛌 nxt to me I thought oh crap. Woke him up he said ey, her and I jus met nothing even happened, call her right now. Told him out of my house stupid. Felt bad so confessed and she broke down and her EXACT words were "Of all the women here, why her!? She is darker than I am!" (Happily so) I thought ooooh this is where we are taking it, called the guy back and did him once again for good measure just because. She has never introduced a guy to me since and we haven't spoken either. But hey hoo.
Kelly and Naomi are unmatchable on beauty category... to me, two goddesses
The fact that ppl deny that colorism exists is baffling. For someone as beautiful as Kelly to experience it is very telling. She’s literally the standard of beauty for DSBW.
Have you noticed who is denial about it? Light skinned people
@@user-Mimi622 not only is it not your fight it don’t affect y’all why would you I bet you don’t believe there’s such thing
@@maiamiimaiam4343 yup, they'll never know what it's like!Across many ethnicities, especially amongst women, it's always that lighter is better. Although dark skinned women may have beautiful facial features and are very talented,just being darker kinda limits them. It's sad the society we live in.
CLOCK IT but the ignorant got stay ignorant
She actually made me love my complexion as a young girl. Seeing her in Destiny's Child was so empowering and I remember a lot of the guys loved her and her complexion. ❤️
Same here ❤
Same
Yes , I looked to her for fashion tips
Yeah, my ex boyfriend was in love with Kelly-Beyoncé was invisible to him.
Which guys you’re talking about. Not black guys. Their favourite was and always would be a Beyoncé type first.
Kelly is beautiful and she was always my favourite in Destiny’s Child. I don’t like how some fans try to downplay her accomplishments as a solo artist, she’s sold over 40 million records solo.
Kelly had a UK #1 single before Beyonce did.
@Jess Ryan Which is the definition of downplaying. Comparing someone to someone more successful is downplaying.
@Jess Ryan Why is it necessary for you to steal Kelly's thunder. Go and hate somewhere else. This thread is about celebrating Kelly's achievements, not comparing them to Beyonce. How many awards has Beyonce got compared to Tina Turner? It's irrelevant and neither Tina, Beyonce or Kelly would want to argue that their success is more valid than the others, because as black women, they recognise the struggle for black women to achieve success. Why are you so obsessed with diminishing a black woman's success?
@@Beckford4000 it's sad that both can't be celebrated they have done a lot for black women I admire them for that the comparisons are what made kelly feel like she wasn't valuable shame on the person who shamed her skintone.
@@Beckford4000 Girl u compared Kelly to Beyonce 1st and now ur telling somebody to stop comparing Kelly to Beyonce? Girl pls shutup. Ur comment was also so unnecessary. U could have just said Kelly has a #1. And ofc she has a #1 before Beyonce. Kelly started her solo career 1st. Duh
IMO her skin color is absolutely perfect!
Wow u hawt Mr Scott
She is so pretty. and she is getting more beautiful with age. She seriously is lucky.
She's not even dark, she's brown skinned. I'm darker than her leather jacket. Let that sit.
She was always the prettiest member of DC.
In Hollywood celebrities get lighter and lighter. I don't know what they're doing. Kelly used to be darker.
@@lareinelester685that is true
she is the prettiest to me. my Lord, this woman is a queen of beauty
Kelly is the perfect person to have this conversation with
Periodt
Her tone of voice too is gorgeous
Imagine looking at Kelly and not immediately thinking she's beautiful
Because people need things to be made CLEARER to them. Especially since we tend to overthink as humans regarding our worth.
If she was sexy she’d be a star.
Diana Ross was not light skin
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Was not light skin
Kelley lacks self confidence that’s why she not bigger than Beyoncé.
There’s something so special about Kelly :)
Black people its about time we had this conversation. It's long over due. We complain about racism all the time yet within and amongst ourselves we are serving a form of racism to each other. If you are darker skinned woman in particular it gets worse unless you are being stereotyped and fetishized like Lupita or Adut. The irony is for women you are represent the lowest forms of ugliness and for men you often the epitome of masculinity and desirable fetish. But yet still the journey particularly growing up is not easy for darker skinned black people. Instagram is awash with pages specifically for light skins or mixed black men or women.
@Denver Mahara...Man speak for yourself so-called ''black people'' are not a monolith. Black people don't even exist all people of African descent have brown skin tones to varying degrees. How do you want to battle racism when you use the racially created terms by white people to define yourself? Do you see society still calls Asian people ''yellow people'' to a large degree ...NO. There is no such thing as ''mixed black men or women. You are either mixed or you are of authentic African heritage.
@@dylandylantoriyama5370 you have issues. You better calm down.
@@dexteray pple aren't ready for tht kind of brutal honesty. In families it exists, hell i first experienced it at 8yrs old. I was shipped to boarding schl many years ago, a girl not much lighter than me nicknamed me "the princess of darkness". I'm not far from Kelly's complexion but in a schl with a mil white kids and two black kids, one of us had to be the predator and the other prey I guess and she beat me to it coz I was a very shy & quiet child. Funny thing, after she had been expelled & nobody else ever called me tht.
As a race, we’re not intellectually intelligent enough to have this conversation because too many idiots in our race think this way. I mean everyone knows those blacks “oh I can’t go in the sun I’ll get black” WTH like you said that out loud like it makes sense. Or “ooohhh your baby is pretty what is he or she mixed with?” I mean the stupidity is a bottomless pit in our community so I don’t see this conversation being productive at all yet we claim black excellence. No what we really mean is black excellence if it’s mixed with another race.
CZcams might delete this comment because it could be deemed as controversial, but for the sake of humanity and the future of black women who are little black girls today I will make an attempt: Many of these mixed race people with black fathers and non black mothers who hate black women will in the future be Judges, lawyers, doctors, nurses, public school teachers, and hold other occupations that traditionally have executed unfair treatment towards full blooded black people and they will have an anti black whyte ideology. If you look at the coloreds in South Africa who are just as racist and bigoted towards the black South African as the whyte South Africans upi can see how they execute harsh treatment towards black South Africans. In the future the full blooded black population here in America will be greatly diminished and mixed race people with black fathers will be the new overseers of full blooded blacks. These people will be the interviewers on the jobs you seek, they will be the police that pull you over and treat you worse than whyte cops, they will be the judges that will give you longer sentences, and they will be the public school teachers who will target full blooded black children-especially little black girls for suspension from those schools. What you seeing today in how mixed race people with black fathers look at and treat full blooded black people-especially full blooded black girls today will be a 1000000x worse in the future.
Kelly is fricking gorgeous 😍😍🥰🥰
Thank you for being you, as a darker skinned woman and not conforming to industry standards ❤
But she did
She didn't change her complexion @@psychomammiescaught2506
I love Kelly and I think she’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.❤️❤️❤️
I’m loving her hair
Kelly you are so perfect just as you are. ❤️
Absolutely stunning! One of the most beautiful looking women in the World!
It’s incredible to me that anyone could think this stunningly beautiful woman wasn’t good enough for their son.
she is 10/10 no doubt about it
I've had arguments since 2000 they Kelly is the prettiest in destiny's child.
She could be green, and she’s still a stunningly beautiful woman !
She is so beautiful, that I couldnt even imagine shed have this type of issues.
The issue here isn't her beauty it's her skin tone. In fact, in some instances, the more beautiful a dark skinned woman is, the worse she'll have it, because there are people who actually think you shouldn't be that beautiful if you're that dark (insanity, I know).
Add that to the fact that she grew up in a group with someone who was lighter; and favored, and perceived as prettier by some, more talented by some, and more worthy of attention by many. Kelly became successful despite the odds that were stacked against her, and that's just one of the reasons I root for this chick (even when she gets on my nerves☺️).
It’s a privilege to not be able to imagine another’s struggles. Hope you’ll continue to learn and be empathetic towards it
always be yourself. society is fickle and easily both pleased and displeased. they aren't worth your time. be your best you, and walk with your head held high. there's no shame in being who you are.
She's out of this world gorgeous. Period.
I’ve always loved that Kelly was one of the very few pop females with darker skin and she seemed so confident and beautiful in it. And she never tried to go blonde
I would literally give everything to have her skin. Is so deep, moisturized and healthy!
She so cute, and she has a rich chocolate color. Plus her grest voice ❤
She is absolutely stunning. Tina Lawson did her no justice. She is one of the most beautiful women in the entire world!
She’s stunning 😢😢😢
Kelly is so pretty! Love her!!
Kelly is a sweet woman glad she's speaking out
I get that people may have preference but they have to acknowledge that colorism is linked to discrimination to demoralize a group of people being. I think that in our communities we were taught to not like our skin because we we're considered a conquered race that made us feel weak and non prideful. That's why you hear it in the music even our household that spits out degradation. We have to do better to not repeat that cycle of ignorance.
I watched this program and was torn emotionally. Terms like ‘Blick’… erghhh the cheek. Our own community bringing us down. Tan’s experience as a child was particularly harsh. I’ve never put myself in the shoes of a south East Asian to see how they dealt with racist chants. , being chased at age 5. The same incident happened to me at age 19. And the actress on Eastenders…, my days. Can you imagine the mental trauma of the comments she received from fellow black people. Deep
She’s pretty ❤❤❤❤
“What the hell”…that accent was divine.
Kelly is still the hottest destiny’s girl starlet they ever had.
Kelly is drop dead gorgeous!
Kelly Rowland is beautiful and she was the most beautiful than all the other members of Destiny’s child. I hate that she and other women that are darker complexion get discriminated or told they will be more attractive if their were lighter skin.
Kelly, you are beautiful!!! Absolutely gorgeous, period!
Just so beautiful.
Kelly Rowland is a goddess
❤ her shes a beautiful lady watching from cape town south Africa
Mama T is Beyonce's mother. She raised Kelly from 10 years hence why Beyonce and Kelly refer to each other as sisters and best friends and Tina Knowles refers to Kelly as her daughter.
She is so beautiful...my favorite artist!
Kelly is beautiful much respect
She is so beautiful!
It's sad that ppl with ignore colorism but fight racism.
Love Kelly as an artist, as an inspirational woman ✊🏾.
It's the reality, all over the world.
I'm having a lot of conversations with my daughter about dealing with it, she's only in primary school 😕.
Wow!..finally!!👍👍👍
She's absolutely stunning and so is Beyonce. Chocolate skin is beautiful and so is caramel, beige, white and everything in between.
You and Hally Berry are the most beautiful black women that my eyes saw in my life.
You must have seen only 2 black women in your life i guess 😂😂😂
@Luc Goulet....Hally Berry ''black'' ? she mixed and is half British (white)
Kelly is one of the most beautiful stunning gorgeous people in the world I bet that dude regret listening to his mama now just saying 💜
She is so beautiful and I’m so glad that she’s never tried to alter her skin colour! ….I literally grew up looking upto her ! She was Dark n lovely ambassador I believe !
But my mom used D&L products for my hair and her face was always on the boxes and I would spend hours just looking at her beauty! Striking
She’s so stunning omg
Kelly is one of the most beautiful black women in the music industry. Interestingly enough though, colorism didn’t affect her enough not to stay friends with Chris Brown after his colorist shenanigans.
Who hurt you
Good point.
@@infintyplusNo one hurt her she’s spitting facts!!!
Not only is Ms Rowland beautiful, she's also incredibly talented. Unfortunately, DC was always The Beyoncé Show.
I think the point is the bigger picture social issues rather than Beyoncé herself or Destiny’s Child
There must have been scared of Kelly because to me that gorgeous chocolate skin of hers just compliments her radiant smile, her shimmering eyes, that goddess like, statuesque beauty and charming personality. Im telling you the world is overdue with its apology to Kelly she has always been this radiant and talented. Media and 'fans' just did her dirty and didnt appreciate what she was bringing to the table.
Im glad she kept her light and class though. Sure she's only human and she will have made some mistakes or been triggered but overall she has handled herself well over the years.
Her chocolate is the most perfect
Imagine telling a woman this gorgeous that she can't date your grandson! Crazy!!!!
She’s just so 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾.
I’m just trying to figure out why an asian LIGHT skinned man is discussing colourism. Once again whilst trying to battle colourism they covertly and hypocritically choose the quote on quote “desirable” skin tone to discuss the same issues they are trying to eradicate. Make it make sense. You can’t make this shit up LOOOOOL
Because in Asia, he isn't considered light skinned. He would have had the same negative experiences from Asians as well.
@@Leo-xg2zg are you insane. The documentary is focused around colourism ESPECIALLY effecting black people of a darker hue. Second either your blind or seriously STUPID but in Asia he would be classed as fear skin. He is no way near the dark spectrum. Somebody who BENEFITS from colourism shouldn’t be speaking on the effects of colourism. It’s SIMPLE
She's gorgeous!!!
I'm a caramel color and growing up I totally envied the dark-skinned girls. It was the era of the black pride movement. Their skin tone was so rich and even. Meanwhile I had different parts of my body with different shades. Had no idea at the time what they may have gone through, or what the future may have held for them.
Meanwhile in the other part or the world a.k.a in big parts of asia, here the darker ur skin is, the more u get bullied.
Think about how many people use tanning lotion.
Life is so unfair. Kelly deserves so much more than what she actually received. She's beautiful, talented, classy... just because she's not an illuminati, she didn't had a huge career.
She has sold more than 30 million records as a solo artist. That's huge to me
The fact that a woman as stunning as she is, is made to feel ugly because of how dark she is abysmal. I hate colourism.
Undoubtedly the MOST Beautiful Woman in this Universe everything about her is too nice. Tim is a very lucky man
Always liked her. Very beautiful.
Kelly is so gorgeous.
In the Philippines it's hard to buy sunscreen without "whitner"
I had always thought Kelly Rowland is the most beautiful person ever 🔥🔥🥰 she's so sweet , she is my favorite one from the destiny child's group
Kelly is TOO FINE 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Kevin Samuels was right, she was always the most BEAUTIFUL ONE in destiny’s Child. She literally SMOKES Beyoncé when it comes to raw beauty.
No need to compare BOTH are insanely beautiful
@@TitiLectric this tho 💯
Stop capping
Beyonce is just as beautiful
I heard that before am carmel I love my shade of color
She's absolutely stunning. Always had a huge crush on her growing up.
Honestly she always been my favorite fr
Full interview ?
After her surgeries she looks quite nice
Where’s the full interview
The crazy part is Kelly is literally one of the most humans I've ever seen! That grandma is crazy!
Kelly is Stunning especially in person and shame on the interviewer to not even bring it to Kelly attention but compliment Mariah instead when she’s clearly hotter
Love you Kelly
Kelly tu es magnifique !❤️
Anyone else think she is fire 🔥 😊
Nice video
I love Kelly Rowland, I've always been a huge fan of her music, much more so than the other girls from Destiny's Child (whatever their names are). Kelly exudes class, strength and beauty. If I wasn't gay, Kelly Rowland would be the one.
I don’t know why it’s an obsession to put down other women in order to uplift someone……
Of course Kelly experienced colorism in Destiny's Child. The music industry is highly colorist in favour of very fair skin , exotic. Kelly is gorgeous and just as beautiful as the others and more so than Mariah Carey
She is drop dead gorgeous. She could have modeled.
Precisely! She’s also pretty without 30 pounds of makeup,
This conversation was here yesterday, today, no doubt tomorrow and beyond…
Skin colour has been linked to many views and levels of acceptance, stereotypes and assumptions within different Cultures, Religions and Races around the world.
Even going back centuries for example The Slave Trade with the slave masters separating the Field Slaves - Darker Skin tones and House Slaves - Lighter Skin tones who were considered more “pleasing” and “acceptable” to be “part” of the white household.
Leaping forward to more recent decades and the term “Passing” a phase related to a Black person who was able to pass as White due to their much lighter skin complexion and by doing so gaining “benefits” they believed it would give them the advantages of White Privilege (another complicated and complex discussion for another time).
Also worth a mention are other cultures, ie Asian cultures who beyond African and Caribbean who also buy into that idealism of White/ Lighter skin tones being the acceptable view or desired look of true beauty.
So the issue of ‘having’, ‘wanting’ and ‘preferring’ a skin tone far removed from ones own natural birth skin tone all the controversy that comes with that is only really going to change when we as individuals stand up, remember and praise the fact that TRUE NATURAL BEAUTY really does COME IN ALL COLOURS and SHADES..!!!
😍👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿😍
Mrs..Rowland you are beautiful the blacker the berries the sweeter.
She is sooo beautiful and even if she wasn't beautiful colourism is the most stupid, most ridiculous thing ever. I don't get how there are really people who seriously cares about people's skin colour, gender or anything that they were born with
So gorgeous ❤
Well said Kelly!
Aint no such thing as too dark chocolate🍫🍫🍫😭😭😭😭💗
And Mrs.Rowland I would'nt change a thing about myself to please another your fine.God Bless.
More of the interview
kelly is a goddess😍😍