byLeyla MohammedBuzzFeed Staff
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This post discusses weight loss and body image
“I’m calling you out on this because it is ridiculous,” she said as she addressed viewers. “Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, she bleached her skin.’ I’m a dark, Black woman, and I love who I am, and I love how I look. And if people do it, that’s their thing, and they have every opportunity and they should. I don’t judge, but you guys do.”
“But that’s what this world is about, and I stay in my lane — the non-judgy one — and I keep it. But no, I actually don’t bleach my skin, so can we just kinda clear that up?” she said
“I literally was playing a professional sport, and I could never go back to where I needed to be for my health, for my healthy weight, no matter what I did,” she said. “I would always lose a lot of weight, and then I would stay. No matter what I did, I couldn’t go lower than that one number.”
