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Khoudia Diop
Actress
Born:
Dec 31
,
1996
Love
Me
Myself
People
Skin
You
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I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.
Khoudia Diop
Confidence
People
Negative
Example
Just Be
Living
Learned
Self-Love
Just
Ignore
Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!
Khoudia Diop
Positive
Celebrate
Yourself
Stay
To this day, the first thing that I do every morning is look in the mirror. I'll tell myself, 'Look at your skin. Look at your teeth and your smile. You are beautiful.'
Khoudia Diop
Smile
Beautiful
Myself
Day
Morning
You
Mirror
First
Skin
Every
Teeth
Tell
Look
First Thing
You Are Beautiful
The First Thing
Your
Thing
Learn yourself and love yourself.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Love Yourself
Yourself
Learn
I feel beautiful when my makeup looks great.
Khoudia Diop
Beautiful
Great
Feel
Looks
Makeup
I learned to find things to love about myself and to celebrate them.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Myself
Celebrate
Find
About
Learned
To Love
Them
Things
I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.
Khoudia Diop
Angry
Me
People
Looking
Skin
Would
About
Color
Weirdly
Questions
Get
Stop
Whenever
Ask
Notice
Skin Color
Even
Street
For those who feel the need to be bullies, I ignore them.
Khoudia Diop
Those
Feel
Bullies
Them
Ignore
Who
Need
Diversity is what makes life interesting.
Khoudia Diop
Life
Diversity
Makes
Interesting
I was mostly bullied by my classmates. People would come up to me and say, 'You're so dark.' I'd always fight back by calling out one of their insecurities, like, 'Well, you have a big nose.' Today, I'd tell them that I really love them. I'd thank them because they made me realize how unique I am.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Today
Me
You
Fight
People
Dark
Made
Big
Back
Say
Out
Tell
Insecurities
Would
Classmates
Come
Like
Well
Mostly
Calling
Because
Always
How
Am
Bullied
Up
Thank
Nose
Them
Realize
Really
Unique
I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Me
People
Reflection
Mirror
Skin
Saw
About
How
Falling
Falling In Love
Italy
Stop
Ask
Unique
Why
Street
Vacation
Started
I grew up in Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the women bleach their skin, and skin bleaching is a huge deal. I grew up seeing my cousins and my aunts using it.
Khoudia Diop
Women
Skin
Seeing
Percent
More
Deal
Cousins
Aunts
Huge
Up
Than
Where
Grew
Using
The message I have for my sisters is that how you look doesn't matter as long as you feel beautiful inside.
Khoudia Diop
Beautiful
You
Matter
Long
Inside
Feel
Look
Message
How
Sisters
People have made comments, calling me names like 'midnight' or 'mother of stars.' At first I confronted the bullies, but eventually I learned to tune out the negativity and just love myself more.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Myself
Me
People
Mother
Made
First
Stars
Negativity
Out
More
Like
Names
Calling
Learned
Bullies
Comments
Just
Tune
Midnight
Confronted
Eventually
As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.
Khoudia Diop
Love
Myself
Day
Every Day
People
Negative
Pay
Pay Attention
Every
More
Attention
Learned
Lot
Grew
Which
To Love
Helped
I wanted to bleach my skin so bad, but my sister always discouraged me. She'd say, 'This is a bad thing. Don't try it.'
Khoudia Diop
Me
Try
Discouraged
Sister
Skin
Say
Bad
Bad Thing
She
Always
Wanted
Thing
My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
Khoudia Diop
Me
You
Yourself
Matter
Will
Thought
Girl
First
Find
Something
Call
Came
Up
Friends
Very
Account
Either
Which
Then
Growing
Growing Up
I wanted to show girls it's not bad to be dark, that different is beautiful.
Khoudia Diop
Beautiful
Dark
Girl
Bad
Different
Wanted
Show
I want to be an actress and learn astronomy!
Khoudia Diop
Astronomy
Learn
Want
Actress
Where I grew up, we had light-skinned models but not dark. Every time I would talk about being a model with my friends, they would start laughing out loud.
Khoudia Diop
Time
Dark
Every
Every Time
Out
Laughing
Would
About
Had
Talk
Up
Friends
Loud
Model
Models
Being
Where
Grew
Start
When I was younger, I didn't have any inspiration to like the skin I was in.
Khoudia Diop
Skin
Inspiration
Like
Any
Younger
In my family, only my brother has a similar skin color. But in Senegal, the color is common.
Khoudia Diop
Family
Skin
Brother
Similar
Only
Color
Common
Skin Color
I want to inspire other young women of color and empower them. I want them to know that they can do and be anything they dream of.
Khoudia Diop
Women
Inspire
Young
Other
Dream
Color
Know
Empower
Want
Anything
Them
Young Women
In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.
Khoudia Diop
You
People
Better
Country
Beauty
Think
Though
Wrong
Lighter
Lot
Being
Really
Even
I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.
Khoudia Diop
Kid
Out
Feel
Like
Because
Am
Bullied
Lot
Being
Realize
Really
Standing
Who
Having support from family, friends - and now fans - definitely helps to affirm that I am worthy, loved, and beautiful. I hope everyone can see that in themselves and feel this way.
Khoudia Diop
Beautiful
Hope
Family
Fans
Everyone
Way
Definitely
Worthy
See
Having
Support
Feel
Am
Affirm
Friends
Loved
Themselves
Helps
Now
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