The Shade: Jackie Christie Says Her Eldest Daughter Has Issues Because She’s Dark “Skin-ded”

We see what you did there, Jackie…

A couple of weeks ago, Jackie Christie cleared the air about the rumored rift between her and her eldest daughter (and mother of her grandbabies) Ta’kari. And now that the subject is no longer taboo, Jackie feels all types of comfortable talking about her daughter’s issues.

I know a lot dark-skinned girls that have major issues with their skin tone, and I feel unfortunate for them because I think it’s a beautiful color. Dark skin is gorgeous and beautiful. Me and my husband have talked about that before and we have a daughter [Chantel] that’s very light-skinned, very fair or pale-skinned, so in our family it kind of goes across the gamut and Doug has white in his family. And when I met him, people were like, ‘Oh my God, you’re going to be with a white boy!’”

But you know, it’s funny, a lot of African-American girls already, as a black people, we feel we’re being oppressed – which we are, we’re not equal yet by any means – so by them being a darker skin, they feel like, ‘Oh my God, it’s even worse for me. And we have a dark-skinned daughter [Ta’kari from Jackie’s previous relationship] that’s a little older and she fights with that self-esteem issue a lot, too. And she’s very pretty, but she still feels like, ‘Why did I have to be born dark?’ I tell her, ‘You’re beautiful. You have caramel skin, you know it’s a darker tone, and it’s gorgeous. You can wear whites, and baby blues, and lime greens, and it looks stunning. So don’t worry about that.’

See what she did? But seriously, that’s how you deal with your daughter’s color issues? SMH

In case you don’t remember, this is the other daughter Chanti:

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