When her Uber driver gave her uninvited advice on how to take care of her gorgeous complexion, the woman was taken aback.
The fashion diva, widely referred to as the “Queen of the Dark,” laughed back and dismissed his remarks as she embraced her stunning beauty.
Discover what this Uber driver told her and how she used it as a teaching opportunity by reading on!
Nyakim Gatwech believed that living in America would “be like heaven” after having spent her formative years in camps for refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya.
However, Gatwech spent a lot of time by herself in Buffalo when she arrived there at the age of 14, sobbing over people’s opinions of her highly pigmented complexion.
The young, naive girl only wanted to blend in, but it wasn’t easy when strangers were placing wagers on whether or not she was actually that dark-skinned or if she was wearing leggings.
“At one point, I did consider [bleaching my skin]. When I came to America from a refugee camp in Africa [at age 14], I lived in Buffalo, New York. I would cry myself to sleep after being bullied [about my skin],” says the beauty. “There are so many beautiful dark-skinned Sudanese women who bleach their skin.”
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