R. Kelly’s Daughter Jaah Kelly Fell Into A Dark Depression After Coming Out As Transgender At 14
Jaah Kelly, who now identifies as a lesbian at 18 years old, added that she was “scared.”
When Jaah Kelly, the daughter of disgraced singer R. Kelly and Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta star Drea Kelly, came out as a transgender male at age 14, it was traumatic.
Jaah, who now identifies as a lesbian at age 18, told Paper magazine in a recent lengthy interview that her stepping into her truth resulted in her falling into a deep depression, followed by a three-week psychiatric hospital stay.
“When I posted that video, I was so scared,” Jaah told the magazine. “When I was younger, I always felt like I had to make a choice. I knew that I was a girl who liked other girls. But because of what I was taught, I felt like the only way you could like another girl is if you were a boy.”
Four years later, Jaah explained in the magazine’s Pride issue why she now identifies as a lesbian along with nonbinary and gender fluid.
“I identify as a lesbian. I know I like girls, but that’s as far as I’ll go to label myself,” she detailed. “It’s up to you how you see me. Either way, I don’t care. I stand in my truth, and why does my truth need a label?”
Although she refused to talk about her father R. Kelly’s recent headlines, her mother Drea did reveal the musical similarities between the two. In high school, Jaah took to music, playing the trumpet, clarinet and eventually teaching herself how to play piano.
“One thing she gets from her father, true in her DNA, is her ability to create and produce by ear. She’s entirely self-taught,” Drea said about Jaah. “When she wanted to learn piano, she just came to me one day and told me she taught herself how on YouTube. The same goes for making beats. To have my JaahBaby doing what she does in a male-dominated industry makes her all the more extraordinary in my eyes.”
Jaah, who writes, produces, raps and sings her own music, said she creates music to inspire people to live full in their truths.
“I’d want people to know that you can do whatever you feel you want to because you have one life,” she added. “The reason I dress the way I dress is because I want to. The reason I do anything at all is because I want to. It just makes me happy. I feel like there are so many people who don’t do what they want to do in life.”
“Maybe people who feel like that can listen to my music and feel like they can do whatever the hell they want. Music doesn’t have one sound, one identity, and neither do people. Just let go of everything,” Jaah encouraged.
Article via Essence
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Kim Kardashian Addresses Another Culture Vulture Charge
Article via USMagazine
The Kardashians are no strangers to cultural appropriation allegations. Kim has now decided to up the stakes by TRADEMARKING ‘Kimono’ – what should be a formal Japanese wear is now Kim’s shapewear line.
When Kim Kardashian Opens a New Window. announced her new shapewear line called Kimono (as a play on her first name) on June 25, some expressed concern over use of the term for the traditional Japanese garment, even spawning the hashtag Opens a New Window. #KimOhNo on Twitter. And now Kardashian has responded.
On June 27, the businesswoman addressed these critiques in a statement to the New York Times Opens a New Window. , which reads: “I understand and have deep respect for the significance of the kimono in Japanese culture and have no plans to design or release any garments that would in any way resemble or dishonor the traditional garment. I made the decision to name my company Kimono, not to disassociate the word from its Japanese roots but as a nod to the beauty and detail that goes into a garment. Filing a trademark is a source identifier that will allow me to use the word for my shapewear and intimates line but does not preclude or restrict anyone, in this instance, from making kimonos or using the word kimono in reference to the traditional garment. My solutionwear brand is built with inclusivity and diversity at its core and I’m incredibly proud of what’s to come.”
This comes in response to fan comments Opens a New Window. questioning the use of the word on her original social media announcement. For example, user @takano_meg commented on Twitter, “For Japanese, Kimono is really important culture and we are proud of having this culture. Even now, I often wear Kimono not only special events but also normal days. I hope everyone know Kimono as a Japanese traditional and beautiful clothes…”
Still others praised the mogul’s attention to inclusiveness Opens a New Window. (the line includes nine colors to match various skin tones and sizes ranging from XXS to 4XL).
Article via USMagazine
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Jada Pinkett Smith Reveals She Initially Didn’t Want Jordyn Woods On ‘Red Table Talk’
Smith said she eventually changed her mind and saw the appearance as a chance to give Woods a safe space to open up.
Article via Essence
Turns out Jada Pinkett Smith almost passed on having Jordyn Woods appear on Red Table Talk.
The Facebook Watch series, hosted by Pinkett Smith, her daughter, Willow Smith, and her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, sees the three tackling tough topics and given fans insight into their lives.
Woods appeared on the show after news broke that she had hooked up with Tristan Thompson, the father of Khloe Kardashian’s daughter, True.
“It actually wasn’t something I wanted to do because it was very close [to home],” Smith revealed to People. “But as time transpired, Jordyn was just like, ‘I really need you in this platform’ and Will [Smith] felt like it was supremely important. So I was like, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’
The episode broke records as the most viewed Facebook original episode in its first 24 hours.
Pinkett Smith—whose family has known Woods since she was a child thanks to Woods’s late father, John, working as a sound engineer on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air—said she wanted to give the 21-year-old “a platform to tell her story.”
“Jordyn really felt like it was the only safe place that she could do that interview,” Pinkett Smith said. “That was my intention honestly. I just wanted her to have a platform to tell her story. That’s it.”
“She’s a young beautiful woman inside and out and me having been a young girl, we sometimes get in situations that we don’t necessarily know how to handle,” the actress continued. “You just [try to] help young girls navigate through life, through difficult situations we’ve all come across.”
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7-Year-Old ‘Avengers’ Actress Asks Not to Be Bullied
The young actress who played Robert Downey Jr.’s daughter in “Avengers: Endgame” is asking people on social media to stop bullying her. In a plea posted on Instagram, 7-year-old Lexi Rabe pleads with people to not be so mean. Her mom Jessica wrote on Instagram in part, “Please keep your opinions to yourself so Lexi can grow up in the free world. She’s a normal human being and she’s a child.” InsideEdition.com’s Stephanie Officer reports on the incident that triggered the plea.
‘Beginning Of The End!’ Scott Cuts Girlfriend Sofia Out Of ‘Flip It Like Disick’ Reality Show
As if things couldn’t get even more tense between Scott Disick Opens a New Window. and Sofia Richie Opens a New Window. after he ditched her for a Costa Rican getaway Opens a New Window. with ex Kourtney Kardashian Opens a New Window. , RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that he just delivered another blow to his young lady love by cutting her out of his upcoming reality show, Flip It Like Disick!
“Sofia got cut out of Scott’s show because she didn’t add anything interesting Opens a New Window. to it,” a source close to the Scott, 36, said.
“The producers just felt that, in the end, having her on would just take away from him.”
However, the insider added that “if ratings for Scott’s show tank, then they may decide to throw Sofia back in!”
As fans know, however, Scott’s relationship with Sofia, 20, has taken a backseat to his relationship with baby mama Kourtney, 40.
“It really seems like this is the beginning of the end of Scott and Sofia. Scott is so busy non-stop and when he is not getting bossed around by Kris Opens a New Window. , he is with his kids or working on his show,” the source told Radar.
“The vacation with Kourtney was just the icing on the cake. The sad thing is that Sofia knows that Kourtney is going to be a part of his life and she’s still having a hard time accepting it.”
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JT of City Girls “Will be Home Within the Next 90 Days” Says Quality Control CEO
Article via HighsNobiety
It looks like JT of City Girls will be returning home soon, if Quality Control’s Pierre “Pee” Thomas’ recent comments are anything to go by. In an interview with HipHop-N-More, the record label CEO shared that JT could be released from jail within the next 90 days.
The City Girls member is currently serving a two year sentence for fraudulent credit card charges. At this time, we don’t know exactly what day she’ll be out of jail. Thomas replied “stay tuned” when asked for more details on JT’s release. Watch the clip below.
Although City Girls have been split up since JT began serving her sentence in July 2018, Yung Miami has been holding down the fort, performing “Act Up” at the BET Awards earlier this week. The duo also featured on A$AP Ferg’s new track “Wigs.”
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Iggy Azalea Admits She Self-Sabotages Due To Past Bullying
The rapper visited a wellness retreat to conquer her fears.
Article via HotNewHipHop
Iggy Azalea is suiting up for her big comeback as she’s readying her forthcoming album In My Defense. The Australian rapper has released two singles in the past few months, “Sallie Walker” and “Started,” however, she was hit was a curveball after her topless photos leaked online. The 29-year-old artist took a break from social media and has learned not to let a deterrent stop her shine, but to get to the place where she isn’t off-put by challenges is a journey she’s still traveling.
In a recent The RuPaul Show interview, Iggy admitted that she’s taken some time for self-reflection at a wellness retreat. Think of it as Iyanla fixing your life, just without Iylana. And in the desert. “I did, I don’t know what you would call it,” Iggy said. “An intense workshop yourself? In Arizona. I went away and just one-on-one talked to people…there were people around me who I worked with that were like, ‘We love you but we think that you self-sabotage yourself.'”
“And I was kinda pissed about it, even though I knew it was true,” she continued. “I knew that it was true but I think a lot of it was because I was bullied a lot in high school. I got made fun of because I always was very ridiculous and over the top, and so it was hard for me in my adult life to kind of be able to tell the difference between somebody being critical and constructive and somebody bullying. I couldn’t really…I had the same response to both those things.” She also said that she’s embraced muting and blocking people who come at her with negative comments, but she’s learning how to accept and apply healthy criticisms.
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Orange Is the New Black’s Final Season Trailer
Orange Is the New Black‘s final season is a celebration of the “color that has brought us together.”
Netflix on Wednesday dropped a full-length trailer for the prison dramedy’s farewell run, which is set for release on Friday, July 26. It features footage both new and old, and offers glimpses of characters we haven’t seen in quite some time, including Sophia, Healy, Big Boo, Sister Ingalls and Poussey (R.I.P.).
Last, but certainly not least, is the return of the chicken. Yes, that chicken! This time around, it’s Suzanne who spots the mythical, feral fowl.
OITNB‘s final 13 episodes will focus on Piper as she struggles to adjust to life on the outside, while things inside Litchfield Max are “as corrupt and unjust as ever,” says the official logline. “Taystee’s friendship with Cindy still hangs in the balance as her life sentence looms, Gloria and her kitchen staff are confronted by the hard truth of PolyCon’s newest profit stream,” and “others chase drugs or dreams” while they “grapple with the reality of their place in this world.”
Netflix first announced OITNB‘s swan song last October. One month later, producer Lionsgate TV signaled that discussions were already underway for a potential sequel series — though nothing further has been reported.
OITNB wrapped production in late February. “My heart is full and achey and so overflowing with gratitude I’m a little dizzy,” series star Taylor Schilling wrote at the time. “These extraordinary people have forever changed me. Privilege of a lifetime. #OrangeFamilyForever”
Press PLAY on the trailer above, then scroll down for a first look at the final season poster comprised of fan-made illustrations.
Article via TVOnline
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