Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland talks in the upcoming issue of Essence about a time when she didn’t feel comfortable in her skin. “It’s said that brown-skinned girls don’t sell magazines and that’s so sad,” she tells the magazine. “I remember wishing I was more fair-skinned, but Tina Knowles, Beyoncé’s mom, would say, ‘Don’t you know how beautiful you are?’ She made me come into my brown beauty. I didn’t get it, but now I do. I am chocolate and beautiful and loving it.”
Meanwhile, her former bandmate Beyonce is recovering from a tumble she took at a show earlier in the week. During her sold out Orlando show, Beyonce fell down some stairs, landing on her face. “If you taped that, please don’t put it on YouTube,” said the singer after finishing the show. But within hours the clip was on YouTube. Unfortunately, most of those videos appear to have been pulled for copyright violations by now, otherwise I’d put it up. If anyone has a copy saved to a hard drive, drop me a line and I’ll upload it here.
We women have so many issues to get over! Thank-you, Kelly. I hope every woman that reads this will find something about herself to love today!
Black girls are plenty hot! Kelly’s just LAME, personality-wise.
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Hi, Kelly I’m really think of your are very beautiful in brown that a kind a girl that will eve stay single for long!!
with respect
i believe that kellys right black is beautiful but a large majority or the world would beg to differ it isnt fair that people just think that dark women have to be ugly and so we do many things that other girls dont have to do to attract the attion of a man it isnt fair I was watching 106and park and I dont even see that many dark black girls in videos it just not fair!
Kelly Rowland should stop fooling herself- she is not brown skinned; she’s dark skinned…
Thanx Kelly! My little cousin is 8 and she wants2 be lightsinnde so badly. But I tell her, “chocolate is beautiful” . Cause as soonas the sun comes out whte people out ther gettin tans, tryin 2 looklike us.
Malena,
Kelly is a beautiful brown woman period. Whether she refers to herself as medium or dark brown doesn’t matter. Lighter doesn’t mean more beautiful and most African Americans are so over that foolishness! Where have you been???
Thank you Rachael;
there always gotta be one person with something negative to say…thats why darkskin people feel so ugly or wateva…cus somebody always bringing them down
and reality check..she is brown skin..compared to many otha darkskin people…
Kelly is a pretty women and i love her skintone =D
It is true that dark skinned black women are not portrayed enough in the media. kelly rowland is quite pretty.is that some armpit hair i spot there though? anyway there are plenty that are evan more beautiful e.g gabriel union, stacey dash, jessica white, carla campbell and maira campbell
It’s true! Dark-skinned/brown-skinned females are made to feel inferior to light-skinned females. Whether or not it’s done intentionally is beyond me but you only have to watch a bit of t.v to see for yourself.
I think Kelly Rowland is absolutely beautiful and a good representative for us dark-skinned girls. But i doubt whether she’ll get the recognition she deserves as an established artist because she doesn’t look like many of the successful female artists around today.
It’s sad but true! How many famous, successful light-skinned singers are there today? Bet you can think of loads!
How many famous, successful dark-skinned singers are there? Unfortunately Kelly is one of a few!!!
Your my fa vorite singer and theres nothing wrong with u
Your my favorite singer and theres nothing wrong with u
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