By: Amanda Anderson-Niles
R&B singer Kelly Rowland is expected to drop her next studio album Talk A Good Game this June, and she’s already struck gold with her current single, “Kisses Down Low.” Although Kelly is a beautiful woman, she admitted recently in an interview that she didn’t always feel that way. However, she says most of her insecurities stemmed from her brown girl complexion and thanks to the motivational words from Beyonce’s mom and her mother, she learned to love the skin she’s in:
“I had great women in my life to help me overcome that. I remember I went through a period where I didn’t embrace my chocolatey-ness. I don’t know if that’s a word, but I didn’t embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate lovely brown skin, girl and being proud of that. And I remember Tina Knowles, Bey’s mom, and I remember being out in the sun and I was trying to shield myself from the sun and she said ‘Are you crazy?’ She said you are absolutely gorgeous and she told me how beautiful I was and how rare chocolate is and how gorgeous the skin is…and all of this stuff. I was like ‘Yeah,’ and a light went off.
“So in between her and my mother and then me sitting out in the sun a little bit more to be a little more chocolate, you just embrace it. Embrace everything you are as a woman. Even your flaws too. And the things that you want to fix, you make them better.”
Well, it looks like all that advice paid off because Kelly made this year’s “World’s Most Beautiful List” by PEOPLE Magazine. Other women of color on this year’s list includes the very beautiful Kerry Washington, Gabriel Union and Halle Berry.
Check out a few photos of the ladies below:
Congrats to all.
I love to see brown girls making the list.
Nice!
Dopeness.
And all of them really are gorgeous. Love it.
Kelly has had sooo much work done. She’s still gorge tho.
Kerry is everywhere now. Good for her.
Beautiful. All of them.
Yes!
With all this buzz Kelly is FINALLY getting I know people better actually buy her album this time!
Loving it.
So proud
It is about time that more Brown women made to the list, cuz in the past is alway the blondes…..Black beauty is unique……
I’m loving that they are FINALLY recognizing the beautiful chocolate skin! Hopefully they will continue to praise & see the unique beauty of ALL the many different features of black women. We have sooo many variations of features & skin tones..they all really need to be showcased as being beautiful!
Three pretty ladies!