Fantasia Blames Her Skin For Negative Media Coverage
Fantasia sat down with Vibe where she revealed that her skin tone is to blame for all the negative press she has been getting after dating a married man and trying to kill herself.
She said:
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.”
She added:
“They never put me in those magazines [featuring] the red carpet. Everybody there has long hair and everybody is bright-skinned, and I was like, ‘But wait a minute. They never gave me that.’ That bothered me,’ “And then I tried hard to find people to dress me and they still would not put me there [in those magazines].One day I was like, ‘that’s okay’, but I had to get to that point.I am a dark-skinned, full-lipped sister and it’s all right. Brown is in baby, and it ain’t going anywhere.”
