Actress Gabrielle Union is styled by Chrissy Rutherford & Carrie Goldberg mostly in white ensembles with the exception of the Galvan “Moonlight” cross-back dress – glitzy gown. Photographed by James Ryang.
In her sit down with Harper’s bazaar’s Rebecca Carroll, she speaks frankly on race, rape , her new movie ‘Birth Of A Nation’ and more .
Younger Gabrielle did not love her skin, thinking beauty was judged by white ideals :
“When we were their age,” says Union, “we weren’t anybody’s standard of beauty. When I was your age, I didn’t love my skin color, I didn’t love my lips. I didn’t love my nose, I didn’t love my hair. I didn’t love anything. I didn’t love my body. Because no one was choosing me—my self-esteem was determined by somebody choosing me. I used to curl my lips,” she says, pressing her lips together to demonstrate. “And I see pictures and I look insane, but it was me trying to minimize my blackness.” Her young Gabby girl self giggles at the absurdity of it in retrospect. “It all boiled down to: I need some fool to choose me and then I can be okay with being brown.”
Union is speaking up on racism and how we are all still very much affected :
“”Nothing has changed,” she says, referring to the treatment of black people in America, and the ways in which we are perceived and vilified and punished for merely wanting to be valued as human beings. “The venom has not lessened.” Just being black has long been cause enough for vilification. Add being a woman to the mix—particularly in light of the election results, which has given us a president who ran an openly racist and misogynistic campaign—and it’s a straight garbage fire. “I think what I was
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