Fantasia interview with VIBE mag talk about being dark sikn
Aug 29th, 2010 by Bilal Ali
Fantasia sat down with VIBE mag and explained how her “facial features and dark skin” are some of the reasons why she is receiving so much backlash and mean spirited coverage from the media versus her other female counterparts like Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears and Alicia Keys.
“Yes, I do. I really feel like it does. I was on Nancy Grace, CNN, every gospel station and in every magazine and every newspaper,” she told VIBE about the scandal before her O.D. “It was on. You would have thought I was the President or something.”
“I’ve battled and have had to deal with that before. Lord forgive me and I don’t want to offend anybody,” she says, “but when [I did Idol] it seemed like everybody there was Barbied out. Slim, long hair, light eyes, light-skinned. And here I come with my dark skin, full nose, short hair and full lips — it was hard.”
Hmmm. I’m not sure what to say about th