South Sudanese model Nyakim Gatwech is truly the epitome of this.
Her moonshine dark skin has now taken the internet by storm, thus earning her the “Queen Of Dark” nickname.
Nyakim embraces her dark skin and is prepared to shut down anyone who has anything negative to say about it.
Just recently a crass Uber driver decided it was his job to ask if she would consider bleaching gorgeous dark skin.
“I was [asked by] my Uber driver the other day, he said, ‘Don’t take this offensive but if you were given 10 thousand dollars would you bleach your skin for that amount?’” the goddess wrote on Instagram in late March.
“I couldn’t even respond I started laughing so hard.”
“[Then] he said, ‘So that a no’ and I was like hell to the f*king yeah [that’s] no.”
Why on earth would I ever bleach this beautiful melanin God [blessed] me with,” she added.
“[Then] he said so you look at it as a blessing?”
“You won’t believe the kind of questions I get and the kind of looks I get for having this skin.”
Nyakim, who now lives in Minneapolis says even though she promotes skin positivity her journey to self-acceptance wasn’t always smooth.
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