Actress Tempestt Bledsoe is best known for her childhood role as the dark and lovely Vanessa Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show.” But when she was spotted on the red carpet looking like Casper the ghost, the Web went into shock and skin bleaching rumors ran amok.
Rapper Trina’s skin bleaching before and after. The rapper Trina rose to notoriety when she was featured on Trick Daddy’s hit song “Nann Nigga.” But one thing we do know is: when a black woman dons blond hair, green contacts, and bleaches three shades lighter, there is no doubt she has a color complex.
wow…such beautiful people, who unfortunately, didn't feel that way in their brown skin. I love being brown, and I will never alter my complexion.
tamar has vitiligo- she admits to getting botox, but not bleaching. she has shown picks on twitter of her fingers on twitter. dont' think she bleaches- and she is the same complexion as her brother…. that's my girl!!! 😉
I like Tamar, but I've never seen the pics you speak of. She's very funny and talented.
Yeah Glo, even if you are not on twitter you can google her name and skin and the picks will show up. You can also look at her twitter pics online and you can see them. She reportedly has a skin disease.
Yeah Glo, even if you are not on twitter you can google her name and skin and the picks will show up. You can also look at her twitter pics online and you can see them. She reportedly has a skin disease.
Ok, I had head that but had never seen the pics. About to google now, thanks.
Here you go.
Yup, that looks like a skin condition. thanks!
It's really sad.
"She is at an age where she is who she is, and if she is that much out of touch with the depth of who she is, and has no relationship with her ancestors what can anyone do? Some are so deep into their discomfort they can be manipulated easily into all kinds of foolishness in a business as flighty and unpredictable as show business.
Raised as a White Black Woman has its challenges. Tempestt apparently (if this is true) is deep in a messy thought process." – Gregory E. Woods, DawnWolf KeeperofStories.
Tam Baxley , I don't get on Twitter, but if this is true, and she has vitiligo I am sorry for her.
The worst part about this is that the lightening made them look even worst than before. They look absolutely hideous…They stupid!
You forgot Janet Jackson … but I think Halle is actually darker
Trina from boy / world was truly stunning! Wtf did she do?!
dido to that!
dido to that!
yes.plz share cus sumbodys keeping the market going
The author of this article has to be stupid and have issues. He or she went and found 3 or 4 nobody's and in the cases of Tempess Bledsoe, Dianna Ross, Lark and Iman found pictures were the women had "powdered" faces and/or different lighting. Halle Berry is the skin tone color today as she was 20 years ago. I'm a very dark chocalate man but guess what I'm a little lighter now than I was 20 years ago just like Halle, Tempess, Lark, Iman and Halle. Any black person knows for some reason our skin lightens a little with age. Now Tamar. Michael, Latoya, Trina, Lil Kim, Sosa and the few no names did bleach there skin. The others mentioned in this article either lightened a tad bit with age, had powder on or had different lighting on the before and after photos.
Um…this may be a bit of a shocker – but brown and black people tan too – I am of mixed heritage and I'm white in the winter and black if I get lots of sun !
Have you no shame speaking ill of the dead? Leave Michael Jackson alone!! He was more proud to be of African than a lot of darker skinned people. Having vitiligo "but" using skin bleachers is NOT contradictory. Vitiligo does not lighten the skin gradually and over the whole surface of the skin at one time!! It damages pigment in patches, and it is NOT pretty and if YOU were a multimillionaire in the very shallow very unforgiving entertainment industry you would be desperate not to be regarded as a freak of nature with patches of pink skin over brown. Michael had the means to even out his color, you would have done the same to save your career if you were the King of Pop.
They do not know Michael thats why if you know him he tha King in his domain…*KNOW$ME*
what about the hair the nose and white kids did seem very proud to me
Right a few listed here- is clearly makeup related – not skin bleaching
Reportedly is not fact. In fairness neither is this article. However it would not be un common. And even if having Vitiligo (what does that really mean?) why color towards a lighter complexion why not use make up or creams to maintain the majority of your current complexion?
Oh my
I luve dark skin!
oh! the shame! the shame!
Nomasonto ‘Mshoza’ Mnisi looked better b/f lightening her skin. She is not as pretty now.
Yvonne Nelson wasn't that dark, so it's hard to tell.
Sammy Sosa should have kept his complexion.
Lil Kim was already a pretty girl, so I don't even get why she went under the knife, or lightening her skin for that matter.
Halle Berry was already drop dead gorgeous.
I don't like the "pale" look at all. It's so not cute. I think black is beautiful.
The author of this article should get a life. It's their f#%king skin to do with whatever they please. They are not obligated to represent anyone other than themselves! It would be like trying to embarrass white people for getting sun tans, Hello?
pretty damn sad.
Lark Voorhees is not bipolar nor does she bleach. She has lupus. And the bad kind. It effects her mental and physical self. If i hadnt seen someone suffer it for 4 yrs before she died horrifically i wouldnt understand myself. When i saw her interview i knew and understood.
You would have to be a fool to believe that skin of arms etc. is due to make-up. The bledsoe girl is unrecognisable from how she looked on the Cosby show. Lots of Blacks hate their colour. it is a fact. Why try to deny the obvious? And no amount of cussing hides the evidence. The trouble is many are still enslaved….I call it the mulatto syndrome.
You would have to be a fool to believe that skin of arms etc. is due to make-up. The bledsoe girl is unrecognisable from how she looked on the Cosby show. Lots of Blacks hate their colour. it is a fact. Why try to deny the obvious? And no amount of cussing hides the evidence. The trouble is many are still enslaved….I call it the mulatto syndrome.
Ernest J Robinson You sound ignorant!! Have you ever read even a little bit about the skin condition? You think makeup and creme can stop the progression? I'll tell my friend that she has been grossly misinformed and her loss of pigmentation is a matter of choice!! SMDH!! Read a book dude!
True sista
True sista
He started off trying to look like Diana Ross with the nose job, lol. But then he went overboard and his nose started to cave in! His plastic surgeon revealed years layer that MJ deeply regretted that move. Still I believe it was not motivated by lack of Black pride in MJ's case, no opinion on the others, dont speak ill of the dead.
Black today and bleached out the next day…not white, …could never be…
Who cares! Half of you have permed hair and red lips ( that you were not born with. Not one of the mentioned ever denounced the black race. Their personal choice to alter their look is their business. The author of this piece should be charged with sub-dividing and promoting bigotry within the black race along with most of you ass clowns on this post. We as a race come in every color, shape and size
If Diana Ross whitened her skin, that is no where near as damaging to the black community as haters like most of you on here teaching kids that's this post is somehow important to the strength of our community. Is way more damaging!
BOLLLLLL! You know what's funny…You still black to whomever you trying to change your skin for….Better be comfortable in your skin…
I think Tamar just has a bad make up artist. Her make up makes her look draggish sometimes. Maybe a darker shade will help.
I know a few white folks who've been artificially darkening. Maybe we'll all meet in the middle some day.
how cares loool.
David Morley i'm totally agree with you loooooooool
Diana Mills The Hair is because of his accident while filming the Pepsi commercial part of his hair and scalp was burnt, and with being called ugly as a child by an adult you would think he'd have some issues with his image.
Diana Mills The Hair is because of his accident while filming the Pepsi commercial part of his hair and scalp was burnt, and with being called ugly as a child by an adult you would think he'd have some issues with his image.
Trina actually looks darker than her previous self and tempest's hand looks lighter than her face.
Did the "author" do any research outside of a google image search?
Tempest Bledsoe has Virgilio.
Rihanna? Beyonce? Ciara? etc
Thank you for your sensible opinion. MJ had vitiligo which was PROVED with irrefutable evidence on his autopsy and commented on by many of the doctors who worked on him including his dermatologist. His make up artist said that he initially tried to hide it from her by covering it up with a lot of makeup until it became too much and the decision was made to lighten his skin to even out his complexion. This put him at rick of skin cancer which is why he was always covered under an umbrella in the sun. His nose issue started with a fall that broke his nose during the Off the Wall era which began the fixation with his nose. Add to that the fact that he felt his nose was too big. I agree that it got ridiculous in the end but that is life.
No Janet was always fair skinned. Look back at her baby pics.
who gives a damn what ppl do….
some white ppl tan, and some black ppl lighten their skin….SOOOOOOOOO
Halle berry did not bleach her damn skin. Halle berry is very PRO BLACK. just because her childrens fathers are white dont get it confused
lol
If I knew how to lighten my face I would. not because I want to look white but as I get older my face gets darker and you can clearly see it. I'm now two-toned and it makes me feel bad, I know I should be thankful that it's not something serious health wise but there it is.
I think with bleaching, the effects of lack of melanin are obvious, they turn pig pink. Blacks have a tendency as they get older to …fade, it's happening to my mom also, cold weather suppresses it as well. So Sammy Sosa, Kartel and Mshoza are obvious.
The pictures of tempest Bledsoe is a child hood picture. Kids stay in the sun playing outside which we tend to not do so much as adults. I'm lighter now than I was as a kid because I never go out side. Our mother put us out of the house EARLY everyday in the summer. Of course we had sun tans.
time will pass and mother nature will do her job. Skin problems, hair loss, cancer, among others will be the torture of these people
How didn't BK make this list
Right. Anybody that watched The Cosby Show should remember that Tempest has Vitiligo. I remember seeing it on her arm. In the case of Trina, she looked darker in the "after" picture than "before". I'm lighter now than I was when I was a child because I use sun block due to being high risk for skin cancer. Black people lose their tan just like white people do. Now these other ones look like they might do some bleaching….
Tempest has vitiligo. If you remember how she looked in her Cosby Show days then you should remember the spots on her arms.
Thank you! Pics of me when I was a kid are 2 shades darker than I am now because I was always outside.
While I will always believe that "'black is beautiful," I have, unfortunately, met too many among us, particularly black men, who believe that "light and bright makes it all right." In college, I had an ebony-skinned boyfriend who reported, with some joy, visiting New Orleans, and "Everybody was light-skinned with 'good' hair." He didn't realize then what he revealed about himself, and he probably doesn't realize it now.
While I will always believe that "'black is beautiful," I have, unfortunately, met too many among us, particularly black men, who believe that "light and bright makes it all right." In college, I had an ebony-skinned boyfriend who reported, with some joy, visiting New Orleans, and "Everybody was light-skinned with 'good' hair." He didn't realize then what he revealed about himself, and he probably doesn't realize it now.
I don't know but looks to me like Trina evened out her skin tone and actually put on make up. Tempest on the other hand want all that dark to begin with and from that photo it looks more like she has too much foundation and powder, especially powder that is too light, more so than skin bleaching
Its funny how in every example the "before" pic of the person with darker skin looks better than the lighter skinned version. Also, to those who say its no different than white getting tans – theres a difference, a white person getting a natural healthy tan after a week in Miami looks sexy. Thats not the same as Jersey clowns covering themselves in bronze cream, thats just ridiculous and disgusting.
Where is Melissa De Sousa from, "The Best Man 1 & 2" ? She's lighten up a lot. She's almost my complexion. Am I the only one or do almost of these people look worse than ever after their "treatments". White ain't right.
I'm not convinced about some of these.
I consider the list very incomplete with the absence of Oprah Winfrey on it…. SHAME to all these people who have succumb to such level of mediocrity.
I consider the list very incomplete with the absence of Oprah Winfrey on it…. SHAME to all these people who have succumb to such level of mediocrity.
Look, because you like him does not take away what he did to himself. No one is doctoring any pics of Mike. He was trying to be white. Whether because he wanted to be Diana or what, he died with white skin. He was not who he was. Issues with dad or not, he changed his appearance and that is what the article is about
foh
I agree wholly here. White people tan why? Because they do not like their pale skin, or want to be darker or black? Some people are confused or in awe of the other races, but you are what you are unless mixed directly, not 1/8 something
Mardi Artist Same here. I have a well balanced coffe n milk skin shade, I am from the caribbean and when i visit the US or else where in the winter i lighten up quite a few shades, so much so that when i go back home i have the nickname of <white woman>No racism or pun intended. They just tease me. This is a standing joke in my family and i expect the name anytime i go to Europe or the US. I guess if they saw me before and after they would say the same for me. I am not saying that people dont bleach, I am just saying dont be quick to jump to conclusions,be sure before you smear peoples reputation.
@ David hilarious!
@ David hilarious!
Tavonia Evans I agree. The far majority of those photos looked as though they lighting issues, and make up. Only a couple looked like they may be lightening their skin.
Tavonia Evans I agree. The far majority of those photos looked as though they lighting issues, and make up. Only a couple looked like they may be lightening their skin.
In some cases, skin bleaching is involved, but being a veteran to the entertainment business, often people of color are stuck wearing foundation and make-up much lighter than our skin tone… Bleaching is a growing tread, but finding make-up artists who come equipped with the various colors for us has always been a problem…
Where is the pic of Beyoncé and
Tyra
Where is the pic of Rihanna?
So dumb!
Tomorrow I will change my skin color to green ET phone home!!
In the near future they will make all spare parts for people included skin color.
They don't know what to do with money, My creator made me this way and I will died this way!
I totally agree. Some of these are makeup related. And I suspect that a few others might be related to a summertime TAN. I know that during the summer when I've had lots of wonderful sun, I am a much deeper shade of chocolate than I am in the dead of winter when I've lost my beloved brown tan! 🙁 And couple that with a pale/ill-matched makeup foundation and there you go….
About me, i borned black ill die blue ( more than black). That's it.
Her mother is white so she's mix. I also see not indication that she bleached her skin. This article is ridiculous–some are true, but some are clearly not. In the summer time I'm darker than I am in the winter time and it depends on the area I live in. This person would probably accuse me of whitening my skin during the winter months. Smh.
be happy in ur skin , # be pround of what god gave u
Most of this is hearsay. We as black people seem to create issues so we can have something to talk about. Do you personally know if the skin color change is health or acne related? No but yet you assume they are bleaching and write an article that in no way helps the race to move forward. Get a life!
Wow
This is ridiculous. Some ppl have too much time and money…God made each and everyone of us in his own image and likeness. I think we black ppl are still back on those slave ships. We have evolved but there have not been any alterations in the way we see ourselves. What's wrong with the color of our skin? i don't know about those losers but my black is absolutely stunning and i am proud of it!
What?! That's a good way to ruin your skin forever! Stupid.
This is sad no I don't believe this is all accurate but why do our ppl have to use an European scale to measure our beauty smh how can u hate the first and most natural beauty in the world?!?!?
How could they not want to be White.We are taught from the very beginning that we are substandard.Each and every one of us is trying to emulate White People in many ways. When you try to emulate someone who hates you,therein lies the sickness. Question?(Not for the faint hearted) Who has murdered more people on the planet than Christians, well maybe Muslims? You think we should be Christians ,or Muslims . Christians wiped out 50,000,000 natives. !00,000,000s+ Afrakans .You want me to be a Christian? Gucci, Versace,Nike ,Bulls Bears, Hawks, True Religion, Polo,Islam,Christianity,Judaism,Western Education, Addidas,Homosexuality,the Image of your White God,and all the white people in the world (less than 10%) are telling you that you are not good enough. Now iggers telling each other they not good enough. Wake the fck UP!
I speculate one reason why Vanessa Huxstable (Tempest Bledsoe) would whiten her skin is because while watching her on The Cosby show when wearing short sleeves there was a large dark patch of blotted pigmentation there. She probably wanted to even out her skin tone. I guess no one goes darker, huh, LOL
Toni looks like a complete fool in this photo!
Que nojo !
Make up can also be like you can't make your skin brighter we don't know these peoples life they could have skin conditions Come black ppl lets find something else to do
Make up can also be like you can't make your skin brighter we don't know these peoples life they could have skin conditions Come black ppl lets find something else to do
This is so sad!
This is so sad!
With the exception of Lil Kim, I don't see any evidence of any of the American actors lighting their skin, just the wrong shade of concealer, however African are notorious for lightening their skin to look more like Black Americans.
Haha! Trina whitening her skin? She needs to whiten those teeth! Looking like she just ate a bag of Cheetos
isn't sammy sosa Dominican and not black? and doesn't he has a skin condition that made him lose pigmentation from his skin?
David Morley Not the same, Esau.
Ever hear of lighting, sickness, makeup or different backgrounds?
breeder.
Very inaccurate and slanderous article. Half the people on here are obviously NOT bleaching
they look so damn ugly because u know they black but they look white…just weird……
miss Iman lived in Somalia before right??? different country from where she is residing in now right?? of course she will be lighter different climate
Why not just let people do them. People wear makeup, many black women perm their hair. People wear colored contacts. Just get off of what other people are or are not doing and take care of YOU. Many of those pics are makeup related anyway, not bleaching… and some of those people have Vitiligo (even more than were reported in this article). People just need to mind their own business and stop criticizing.
Who cares, they want light skin..their business
And everyone knocked Michael Jackson ….duh?
How long does it last before it wears off?
But you also get lighter with age, my nana was darker 40 yrs ago and she's in her 80s
I would have to attribute all these to ignorance,lack of self esteem and moreover cowardliness..you want to be whatever ,whatever maybe they should bleach from their African decencies to being Europeans and not bleach their stupid skins alone ! I call them April babies !!!
Being an Esthetician for 14 years I don't Believe all of these people underwent lightening procedures, Some of the female celbs are wearing very heavy makeup, and are very heavily contoured. Tamar Braxton looks like a bad DragQueen with all that clown paint, wig, and lashes like a broom on her eyes. Such a shame, chisel all that off and she could be beautiful again. Its sad that some of these people had a beautiful brown complexion, Gorgeous dark eyes, and now some just look like they have a sickness.
Yolanda Adams!
I am disappointed but i know it's their life decisions..
Sammy Sosa isn't black…
Those photo were horrible. Most of the people didn't lighten their skin. Their only crime was bad makeup or photography. This writer should do a little more research…
Thank you again for the ignorance. I am a black woman who has mild vitiligo and by your report I would be reported as bleachiligo. Please at least do a microbe of research before you go accusing people of bleaching their skin. You are right about maybe 2 of the 15 people listed here. Yet you want to be taken seriously.
With what happened to Kartel after he bleached his skin, I don't know how he does not regret it. It's common that people compare their skin tone to the dominant financial and skin appearance high bar of the world which is European. But to me I became comfortable and even proud of my dark skin tone, when I fixed the areas in my life including education, being a good father and citizen, being a good mate and more importantly seeking to please God. once I accomplished or continue to seek to accomplish those way more important life issues–then I stopped comparing myself to the Euro look and became quite comfortable in my skin. When people have a problem with their skin tone–to me it points to them having deep and serious insecurity issues in other way more serious parts of their life and they are trying to compensate for those areas with trying to be lighter.
It's really sad when you see so many African Americans,bleaching there skin then lying about it. So many low self esteem blacks that want to be light or white. SMH
If you look at the reruns of The Cosby Show, especially the episode when she was going to a dance in a strapless dress, you'll see that Tempest suffers from Vitiligo. Whenever she wore short sleeves, it was evident on her arms.
all these people along the way of so called fame and fortune lost who they are i dont care if its make up or bleaching they sold there soul just to please people who at the end of the day would turn on them the first mistake they make and to say oh it made me feel better come on you have been brainwashed and your trying to justifiy it black people will be forever lost sad but its the truth
Sammy Sosa looks like he should be dracula
I don't think all of these people are "whitening" their skin. Some of this is the photo lighting and the makeup they use. There are some that have obvious skin changes but people like Tamar Braxton-Herbert and Trina, if they remove the makeup they are still brown girls. As a photographer, I know how light can change how your skin looks and because they look different in photos doesn't mean their skin is really that light all the time. Also, sometimes as you get older and if you are taking care of your skin and body, your skin tone will change anyway and sometimes it's seasonal. In the summer you get darker if you're in the sun and your body is exposed more and in the winter your skin may adjust to less heated sun exposure. I am one of seven children and as we have all become adults, my brothers, who were lighter as children have become darker and the sisters have become lighter as we have gotten older. I noticed when I juiced for a month last year, my complexion was almost two shades lighter. Shocked the hell out of me. lol. got the pics to prove it. My friends kept saying "You are glowing." My boyfriend said I looked yellow. lol. No one has ever accused me of looking yellow. lol
Yawn…
What's the big deal if they have the $ and they want to tweak their body parts or skin it's their prerogative. I have no problem with black bleaching their skin if they like it better the same as I have no problem with whites tanning their skin to be darker if that how they like it
Honestly. There really are some people that do suffer from Vitiligo and have no ways of getting there natural black color back. Vitiligo is a skin disease that causes your pigment cells to die off even in Caucasians. There are different treatments depending on the severity of your discoloration, but bleaching the color of your skin to match the white patches that have occured is one of the treatments provided to Vitiligo Sufferers. Myself, My Mother and My Son all suffer from Vitiligo. My Mother was adv by a doctor that her only course of action for her Vitiligo was to bleach her skin or deal with the patches. I do not know if this is the case with these celebrities, but it could be and they could be uncomfortable with admitting that they do have a skin disease and flaunting it around because they do stay in the public eye…I know myself have sometimes felt uncomfortable meeting people from my past that have not seen me since the Vitiligo started….In other words…we do not know their real reason for their skin being lighter so is it possible that we could just find a better story line?!
Rihanna and Nicki Minaj should be on this count down. word!
I personally don't know anyone whose skin has naturally become lighter over time. Personally speaking I have become obviously darker compared to birth and childhood ages. I'm now 33. Live in Michigan where it's warm and sunny for about four-five months.
smh, They dont know what they want
I totally agree with you Teryl they all actually look worst after the bleaching. By the way your skin tone is beautiful keep it 🙂
Thiscarticle is stupid. And everyone knows Michael Jackson didnt "bleach" his skin trying to be light. My cousin ha s the same skin condition the he had.she was born really dark but now her face looks whiter than a white person. Most of these pics look like make up and lighting. Unless these people told you they did this dont assume…..it makes you look stupid.
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL! Of course SOME of these celebs lighten their skin for whatever reason that's on them! Our society has always made it know going back as far a slavery that the lighter you are your a better class of person….I'm not judging anyone, in my opinion if you don't have an legitimate skin condition, it seems like another form of trying to pass!!! I don't get it no matter what you do to the outer appearance are still BLACK on the inside All I know is…. My Black is Beautiful, God knew what he was doing.
It makes me angry that some of these people are actually bleaching their skins to look white why ! ? who says that black isn't beautiful , don't let others decide for you what beauty is !
I bet they thought when they made that all that money that they would be excepted, but when that was not enough they started bleaching hoping to further distance themselves from what they felt as shame, the shame of having black skin, to there face they where cool they entertained but they know that behind their backs they where still negroes, one step out of line on bad publicity stunt and it is back to being one of those negroes, fools trying to be accepted in a white world that has always thought less of them and hated them, and the bad part is that all these people are rich and at no time have blacks had more riches, but do they try and build their own industry's and make their people more prosperous no they run to the white world and look for acceptance and that's the real shame, more black income than ever and 99% of all things sold to blacks are from outside sources our own rich blacks don't even want us and can't get accepted by the whites as equal I feel sorry for them.
Black will always be beautiful. All of them make ugly "crackers"
a clearer complexion is more appealing to the human eye, no offence but a pitch black person is not the most pleasurable to look at. never less people should only bleach if it is actually going to make them look better and not worst. which most people on this list fail to achieve.. I recommend 'GAZA CAKE SOAP" MADE BY VYBZ KARTEL. the ultimate bleaching soap. only available in Jamaica, pretty skin is just a plane flight away..
Ooh wow im dark and i couldn't picture myself being lighter, when i leave this world to meet my maker i want him to notice me