her body resembles that of a once fat teenager…something is off

i’d still crush

I am praying that she really didn’t say that, or if she said it, perhaps it was taken out of context.

That is true. Im a trini and the same thing happened to me and all my fam.

^^^^Really, thats interesting b/c she does look lighter than in the “Pon de RePlay) days

UM….duh when it warms up and you go out, that bright thing in the sky will help you get back to a toasty shade….

I live in FL so I stay Black )

IS SHE FOR REAL. THERE ARE FAR MORE SERIOUS THING SHE COULD BE WORRIED ABOUT.

HAPPENS TO ME EVERY WINTER.. I GOT A NICE CARMEL GOING ON AND WHEN I BAKE TOO LONG IN THE SUMMER I LOOK FORWARD TO THE WINTER.. WHAT WAS WRONG WITH WHAT SHE SAID?

Some of her fans found her on a millionaire&celebs dating club ‘Meet Rich,com’. She has a personal account there with her pictures, blog and something about her albums…In her friend circle, some other stars can be found there.

@ Strong, I second that motion. And really she’s not being stupid or racist against herself. This happens to a lot of black folk. My sister and mother included.

She’s hot none the less!!

i don’t think it’s what she said buy how she was quoted as saying it….like:

OMG every night I get real tired! But, when I go to sleep I feel much more rested. Like it’s amazing how it works… lol

there’s nothing wrong with what she said.

she got a point! my son the same complexion as her, in the summer he get darker in winter he get lighter….logical.

All she has to do is have her friend in the pic rub against her…wtf

She’s beautiful! This is enough! Why do you want for her to think?

Dark as coal or light as caramel, Rihanna is the best looking thang on planet earth. Just look at them thighs.

being from the caribbean she probably wouldn’t have known how pale she would get from living in the USA.

Re: too fast

You are right on point.

Well go to the islands and get a tan sista girl. She’s been in the states long enough to know that you are darker in the summer.

Well that’s a good thing to me. Let’s me know she doesn’t want to be a light bright.

I bet lil Kim would love to be that light, hell 70% of black women and even some men in hollywood bleach themselves.

NASTY! I bet the peel when you touch them.

Um, why do you all have to put it like that? Don’t you know any black immigrants? My cousin thought she was getting pale because she was sick or contracted something. They don’t have 20 degree weather in Barbados. Just go to Miami boo and catch some sun

So what happen to shorty on her left Dayum she missed the weather alert

She was in Barbados in that picture. Its normal to be that black in the Caribbean and Africa.

I would have to say that i’m glad she is not dark like the other girl in the pic…otherwise she would not be attractive.

wow New York…

@elle

New Fag just wants attention. The other chick aint that pretty because her face dont look good and her body is normal but not because she is dark.

She most likely expected that she would get lighter but i believe that she didn’t expect that she would become so pale.

Rihanna went from being brown-skined in 2005 to almost white.

Right now she is even lighter than Halle Berry who has a white mother.

Dayum, that chick is black as hell!! She black as her hair….

@Sheena Rihanna’s dad is white.

So what if she’s black? Is that a problem???? everybody an’t yellow

this is not a West Indian thing…I think most people of color could say the same thing…I notice also that my skin lightens a little in the winter months…..less sun and heat and more clothing will do that….it’s not rocket science….

*meaning, Rihanna’s left and my right. gawdamnit.

much love to Black beauty, in all shades.

Wow…thanks Nita for pointing that out…some people are truly ignorant and clueless and should keep their trap shut!!!

@too fast

Thanks for the clarification.

I actually THOUGHT i was darker until i moved to the states. LOL. Now i am pale as f*ck. I feel her on this one! LOL. You go thru one winter and you lose all color

Black people are insecure mofos. You never heard white folks says, she is too white. Your insecurities is why you were in slavery for soooooo long.

LOVE YOUR DAME BLACK SELVES.

lol ya’ll makin fun of her friend, but her friend’s facial features are better

The girl in the pic with Rihanna is actually pretty…yu haters think she isn’t pretty because of her skin color…and New York you need to grow up for real…with that stupid ass comment

Her friend is average because she is average and not her beautiful dark complexion. That body on Rihanna is too difficult to compete with side by side.

@Jess2much4u your avatar is KILLING ME! I can not stop laughing…

As to Ms. Robin’s comment, yes, you are lighter. But, I blame the make-up. West Indians always complain about getting lighter as soon as they leave the islands (hell my mother complains every damn day!), but Ms. thing is also guilty of the “too-light-foundation” syndrome I notice a lot of black female celebs have. Even Foxy finally found her shade after years of looking like she fell into a sack of flour from the neck up! Hit up the Iman counter or go old school and get yourself some Fashion Fair boo! Lol!

It is blowing people’s minds that a black chick prefers to be darker. I’m not as fair as she is and if it weren’t for skin cancer, I’d be in those tanning booths still. Sun kissed brown skin is beautiful. ::looks down shirt:: Pastiness is not. See my avatar? That is my goal but even being right on the equator, I still don’t get that gorgeous chocolaty brown.

Wow @ NewYork. That comment makes me sad for you. That girl is cute and she has a gorgeous body.

rihanna should count her lucky stars she is that pale otherwise she would not be the star she is today. Dark skins chicks are not really popular in hollywood.

And I’m sure if she were rubbing Ambi all over herself, no one would say a damn thing.

she’s still a banger regardless.

Rhianna used to not do it for me, but recently when i see her photos, I think about putting her ankles by her ears…

I think some dark skin people look just as good as light skin people. The black race is so brain washed when it comes to complexion.

@Sure,

For real!!!!!!

Is this remark newsworthy?

http://www.theblackactor.com

@New York

Provided you are black…….you have a really bad inferiority complex.

Please do not use that name NewYork again. You are an insult to New York.

too fast

@Sheena Rihanna’s dad is white.

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No he’s not. They had him on one of these blogs selling clothes out of his car and he is black.

I’M TAKING MY BROWN ASS TO THE SPRAY ON TAN THIS WEEKEND AS A MATTER OF FACT…I WANNA GLISTEN ON NYE…SO I KNOW WHAT SHE’S TALKING ABOUT…I LOVE MY SKIN IN THE SUMMER AND NOW I LOOK TIRED LIKE I GOT HIT WITH A COLD FISH…

@Bird, NO, HE IS WHITE.

she is kinda right , cause i am from the island , i am light skin to begin with…living in america for the past 20yrs ..my skin is very pale. so she may be right

Girly is riding her natural metabolism…and has no intention of seeing the inside of a gym.It ain’t gonna be pretty ’bout 4-5 years down the road here.

I see a DIET PLAN commercial her future.

You are right, he is mixed raced. Sorry guys.

All this bull over the Black Marilyn Monroe, she shows her age sometimes in what she says. This thing she is talking about happens all the time the light skin people get lighter in the winter I have a nephew who does the same thing every year and they are the same color it matters not where you are from unless you are Michael Jackson…..

LOL@the men criticizing her body…hilarious. She’s a gorgeous girl…

Anyway, back to the topic: This quote is weird because I can actually remember her being much darker earlier on in her career…it worries me because it makes me think the crazy rumors about her skin bleaching… I don’t know, I’ve never known such a process to exist outside of chemical peels but those effects are quite subtle in comparison to bleaching all over…you look perpetually washed out like Lil Kim and Trina, you don’t literally lighten, really…

I don’t know…it’s likely a garbage lie but the quote doesn’t help any…

Who’s that blue girl in the pink bikini standing next to Rhianna….

her and ole girl got the same damn body type/shape/size .. AND that dark beauty is gorgeous!!!

Yummy…great lookin chic!

think

http://www.blackwiz.biz

I’m lovn’ that purple black girl shes with! What I

love about purple black girls is when you spread their ass wide open and get a good look at the cornhole and chitlins…THAT PINK JUST JUMPS into your mouth! Just the smell of purple black chitlin juice gets my tongue to flappin’! And the way the cream from my rod look all over that cornhole….mmm..

shakalaka!

Ri can just borrow some color from girlie next to her. The blacker the berry the sweeta the juice, so girlie next to her must taste like sraight sugar & syrup. Damn. Dont get it twisted I love all shades of sistas, but damn, for real girlie is XXTRA dark.

Damn Earl, EASY…..Your azz needs a cold shower. Or maybe some baby oil and a big roll of tissue.

……….

SBM ya got a fan. She swinging all on your nut sacks. At least I hope it’s a she.

@afafas who ever you are you need Jesus that was tooooooo funny and wrong at the same time……hahahahahahahahahaha.

@kzzmerghtthere

I was just playing:) You have a happy & blessed New Year.

Peace.

Oh…and damn Rhianna and that island body. *shaking head* I would love to indulge in those curves.

Big butt self.

It’s a damn shame how black people could be so racist to their own kind. Making fun of the dark-skin girl in the picture is cruel. She happens to be very beautiful.

Ri and her friend have the same body type small waist and nice legs so why all the hate. I know why because she is darker. People learn to love yourself

It’s a damn shame how black people could be so racist to their own kind. Making fun of the dark-skin girl in the picture is cruel. She happens to be very beautiful.

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You damn right. I’ll hit em’ both. No disrepect ladies.

LMAO at the West Indians speaking like it doesn’t happen to ALL black people. I am almost the EXACT complexion as she is and when I lived in Portland,Oregon and came back for a visit after 6 months to Cali my friends were like “OMG, YOU ARE SO LIGHT” but it’s only because I get a year round tan out here in L.A. and they hadn’t seen picture.

Either way, I don’t see anything wrong with her comment except for the fact that it kinda made her look like a ditz lol!!!

I see Rhianna still sending the blogs here pics cause she ain’t got no PAPARAZZI, quit!

i think she might be trynna repel rumors of bleaching or maybe she just needs to stfu and stop being so self obsessed making random observatins like that

@BostonBitty

Hell, I don’t blame her for making self observations. I love myself too.

ERRRR BODY KNOW RIHANNA BLEACHED BLEADCHED AND MORE BLEACHED HER SKIN TO LOOK LIKE BEYONCE AND OTHER LIGHT SKIN CHICKS…..YOU KNOW IT SHE KNOWS IT THEY KNOWS IT AND I KNOW IT HAHA HA WE ALL KNOW IT RIHANNA IT’S OK THOUGH BABY GIRL COMING FROM THE CARIBBEAN WE GET LIGHTER BUT NOT THAT LIGHT IN THE WINTER TRUUSSSTTT MEEEEE PEOPLES. HENCE THE REASON WHY SHE MADE THAT COMMENT BUT THE COMMENT JUST MADE IT LOOK MORE QUILTY THAT SHE DID BLEACH…WHATEVER

I HOPE I’M WRONG…REALLY THAT WOULD BE SAD

What is the big deal about her comment? I am brown skin and when I came back from the Islands I was darker. Guess what black people of all shades tan.

But I hope these black celebrities aren’t bleaching their skin. I just thought Lil Kim was wearing foundation that didn’t match her skin. Blacks seem mentally worse of today than they were in the 60′s!

Damn that integration

You can tell ther is something said before an after the comment, they just put what they want to make her look bad. I am light skinned an have the same thing at times I am lighter than usual to a point where people notice. She not saying it in a negative way just stating facts, an thats what they choose to post, its not liek she said hey go post this.

@ too fast.

How is the reason black people were in slavery so long because of ourselves. When most the problems blacks have with complexion started with light skinned people being treated better than darker skinnded people by whites, which lead to some people feeling light lighter is better. I have no problem with skin color, in fact I prefer brown skinned an darker women over light skinned women, just my choice, but there are women of all races, shades, an cultures who are good loking an ones who arent.

RIHANNA RIHANNA RIHANNA I WANT TO READ ABOUT CHRIST POKES I MEAN STOKES LOL LOL LOL

I can relate to her statement. I hate the fact that in the winter I turn pale as hell. I have to go out and by new makeup. I just feel that people look healthier with a little color. Maybe her comments were taken out of context.

I have light skin and in th winter I turn a sickly grey. And yes I use lotion regularly. I love being Black so much I just wish I could be Black or at the least Brown for all four seasons.

oh give the girl a break. Being from the West Indies she probably thought that her skin was permantly a certain color. My nephew lived in Aruba for two years and his color is still a tanned color and he’s been back in NYC for about a year and it still didn’t get lighter.

I think that most black people lighten up in the winter or when they are the type that stay inside. Remembering my 6 month stay in juvie hall back in the day I came out like f$cking 6 shades lighter than I have ever been. For those of us that are caramel toned like Rihannah that is definitley true. We would be damn near dark skin in the summer and nearly yellow in winter.

Nobody hates black people more than African-Americans. Some of you are disgusting.

Rihanna likes publicity for no thing interesting. I’m tired hearing Rihanna’s dog, rihanna’s leg, rihanna’s skin, rihanna’s ass etc.

She needs to not open her mouth period..

She wants 2 be WHITE anyway!!!

how stupid.

Thats whut happens to every one….people are such idiots i swear….duh when it gets colder u get lighter, y cuz ur not exposed to much sun

HER daddy AInt white…he black…lightskinned black man thats all!

“HER daddy AInt white…he black…lightskinned black man thats all!”

He´s mot black. I,ve seen pictures of him and he looks like white-indian mixed, not black.

In the Caribbean, we call “light-skinned” people RED. Therefore, RUPEE, Red Rat, Alicia Keys, and Lisa Bonnet are light-skinned.

Brown-skinned is Rihanna, Alison Hinds, and Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child.

I only WISHED that in the picture, a girl of Alicia Keys’s complexion was there to show just how brown Rihanna is, and in the spectrum of shades of Black she is definitely in the middle.

Most people observed correctly that her comments were in response to everyone realizing that she does in fact bleach her skin and has gone from a darker brown to a fairer brown, but brown nonetheless.

Unless she comes out looking like ALICIA KEYS, she is NOT light-skinned.

And Sean Paul.

SHE ALREDY IS LIGHT…(IN AMERICA STANDARDS) AND YEAH PEOPLE DO GET LIGHTER IN THE WINTER..SO SHE LIGHTENED UP MORE…HER COLOR WILL RETURN IN MAY…OR SHE CAN GO SUMWHERE SUNNY AND GET HER SHADE BACK!

I would like to give ger a full body massage!!!

OH, WHAT WAS THE ARTICLE ABOUT???

Isn’t there some sort of 3-month rapid degree course for stars on “How to Make Somewhat Intelligent Comments”?!? If there are one-year on-line masters, something has to be out there. Dang!

that hoe bleached herself

and that hairdo on the magazine cover is old now.

I”m from hawaii and grew up there and was dark all my life, even though I”m not very naturally dark complexioned. Once I finally moved to san francisco 5 years ago, my complexion totally changed. I”m all sallow and pale and need to get back to a warmer climate to get back to my darker shade.

she only mentioned that cause she’s probably hearing left and right she’s bleaching her skin. She’s just trying to explain she’s not doing anything chemically to her skin, just the change in her environment is changing her coloring.

what she said is fine. you guys are reading too much into this. It’s basic science here-people, yes even us black folks, adapt to our changing situations. If she was michael jackson dark, then I’d be suspicious. But she’s got a lighter complexion that can tan easily but without sun would stay lighter.

It just depends on how much sun she’s getting obviously, and if she’s living in colder places and working alot where she’s not actively going to a sun tanning salon while living away from Barbados, the girl is going to be paler.

oh he**, she’s not talking about race people. She’s talking about her own coloring and the fact it can change alot when she’s in colder climates and less tropical areas. Stop being so da** insecure, she meant no harm.

@NADIEGE, IS THAT YOU FROM SANDIEGO? There aren’t too many NADIEGE’S AROUND.

Damn. That other girl is as dark as night. Like motor oil.

She’s from the caribbean that has one season all year around. We don’t change colour. It might seem stupid to you, but to people that aren’t used to it, it is fascinating to us. I remember having that same conversation with my sister.

That happens just now with black people but any race….. that moves to a colder climate you will get paler. She needs to take a geology class> SMH

I agree with the others that she was merely commenting on the fact that she is lighter than what she is used to.

And yes, Americans tend to forget our geography here is vast; we have tundra, desert, tropical and plains. So, it is more than logical that based on the fact she is orginally from a climate that has only one type of season, her new coloring is unusual.

Alas, my brothers and sisters; we are the only race (there are only two others) who are are concerned with our complexions to this extent – whether this was the intent of her comment or not.

I have always noticed that “we” are the only race that will lie down and procreate with one of the other races purely to see the results of that connection and just to have features non-tradition to our own people (i.e. green/hazel eyes, straight/loose curled hair, small/pert noses). Sometimes we pride ourselves on keeping these lineages within our families. Do you ever hear Asian men bragging about sleeping with black women to have children that look like Kimora; or White men desiring offspring that resemble Vanessa Williams (ugly Betty)?

We can no longer blame any external forces. This is a self-perputated psychology. Because we are the same people that “don’t care” if we’re not on the cover of such and such; there are other options, after all the largest market for distributing any product is outside the United States. But I digress.

she made a personal observation and the faux-black-culture police blew it out of proportions

And the chocolate girl has great legs… Rhianna is pretty, but she has those funny knee caps; like some other celebrities.

but i would never diss own her cuz she is that black im just sayin the girl is really really black