In the March issue of Latina Magazine,actress Jessica Alba made a comment about her and her husband Cash Warren wanting their unborn child to be “brown”. She said to Latina Magazine:
JA:”I’m excited for my baby to be brown. I just have to believe the dark gene is going to survive. Cash and I are like, please!”
In a recent interview with USAWeekend.com,Jessica explains what she meant by the “brown baby” comment:
UW:You said you can’t wait to meet your brown baby. What do you mean?
JA:I mean my dad is dark-skinned [Mexican], Cash’s daddy is dark-skinned [African-American], and our moms are both white. So there’s a 50-50 chance of our kid coming out dark or light. It would be nice if the daddies can see themselves in our baby.
UW:Do you think, especially after this presidential election, that we won’t be so obsessed with skin color as a nation?
I think my generation is the last generation that sees color. In this next generation coming up, everybody is mixed. And I think with people like Jennifer Lopez and Halle Berry being out there opening movies and having clothing lines and pushing the idea of ideal beauty, [the ideal isn't] Christie Brinkley anymore. You don’t have to look like Barbie.
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June 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
SH0ULD ii BE AFFENDED?
June 9th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I don’t think it was anything wrong about what she said and I’m African American. She wants her “brown” color of her father and her father-in-law to come out…..so what? All I’m reading about now is how cute Garcelle Beauvis’ twins are with their light skin and blue eyes…let’s keep it real!!
June 10th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Jessica Alba has come a long way, not to long ago she was ahamed of being part hispanic and denied that part of her. Atleast she has mtured and sees now that you don’t have to be shame of what you are. I wish her well.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
“it would be nice if the daddies can see themselves in our baby”
What about the moms?! lol
June 20th, 2008 at 2:22 am
It would be hilarious if the kid looks darker than the two of them.. LOL
July 11th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Why are people so fascinated with color she should only be wishing for a healthy baby. Thia is just like saying i wish my baby was light-skinned or blond hair and blue eyes. Stupid girl.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:45 am
i think your baby is so cute
July 20th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
i think she said that because the baby could be black in color, like she said its a 50% chance that it will look like WHAT it is, and that is a fact,
she cant do anything about that! she is ashamed at being latina,
but every time she looks in the mirror that latina is staring back at her!
September 12th, 2008 at 4:13 am
o! so that baby will be white, hispanic and black. so they will call her multiracial?