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Meghan Markle Is Happy As A Biracial Woman; Here's Why

By Mae Miller | Update Date: Mar 23, 2017 07:41 PM EDT

Model and actress, Meghan Markle talked about the joy and struggle of being a biracial woman in the showbiz industry. Let's know the whole details about it.

Meghan Markle On Being A Biracial Woman

The 35-year-old model and actress, whose mother is African-American and whose father is Caucasian, has constantly spoken frankly about the issues she has encountered On a recent interview with Allure magazine, she stated that her sense of belonging is not about the color of her skin.

According to her, she has the clearest memories of being seven-years-old and her mother picking her up from her grandmother's house. There were the three of them, a family tree in an ombré of mocha following to the caramel tone of my mom and light skin with freckles and she doesn't care about that matter. But when she was getting older, conflicts arose involving her mixed ethnicity.

Meghan Markle On Being Called Ethnically Ambigous

In that interview with Allure magazine, Meghan Markle stated that she experienced racism during her college days, She had an African-American studies lecture at Northwestern, where they examined colorism; it was the first time she could put a pseudonym to feeling too light in the black society, too mixed in the white society, she also added that For castings, she was called ethnically ambiguous. As reported by Yahoo! Canada.

Meghan Markle Advices Other To Be Happy With Their Looks

When Meghan Markle started modeling and her acting career she doesn't want her photos to be edited, she also stated she feels frustrated when people in the business attempt to change her looks to make her adhere to a particular look or character, as reported by Today. She also added this statement, For all my freckle-faced fellows out there, "I will share with you something my dad said to me when I was younger: 'A face without freckles is a night without stars."

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