Who cares if she said that? I think its her right as a parent to want any skin tone of her baby.

People talk about porcelain skin being beautiful all the time yet those same people sit and bake in the sun for hours on end wanting a “tan”. Albeit a “brown” skin tone! and yet people have the nerve to take offense to Jessica’s comment about her own baby. Jessica comes from a beautiful family both white and latino and they are both beautiful. And yes “whites” do come in all shades because there are sicilian’s darker than some African Americans.

thank you sinclair, you said it exactly. We are bombarded daily with images of the so called “ideal” As for Jessica, its her baby not anyone elses and if she said she wanted a white baby then that’d be okay too. I don’t want a white baby, and thats okay! She can feel how she wants, maybe she’d just do better to say “no comment” from now on, lol.

“It’s her baby, Jessica and Cash are both bi racial. Brown is beautiful.
Posted by: toni at Jun 6, 2008 4:12:32 PM
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Yes. That’s true. And white/pale is beautiful as well.”

LOL!!! Anonymousie, don’t worry, we GET that white/pale is beautiful–all over the place, from tv, to magazines, to advertising. The only reason the proclamation that “brown is beautiful” needs to be made is that Eurocentrism still rules in the minds of those setting the standards in so many industries: beauty, corporate america, etc. And saying that “brown is beautiful” does not mean that one thinks that white/pale is not beautiful. It simply means that there remains a lack of recognition for the beauty that exists in the various brown shades out there.

Why does it matter that she wants a brown-skinned baby? Lots of people hope that their children have a certain inherited trait, like hair color, eye color, height, etc. Why should skin color be any different?

This is much ado about nothing. If she said she wanted a baby w/ blue eyes she would be accused of not wanting to be Latina. Since she said brown skin all the white people get offended. Give us all a break and stop reading so much into her comment.

Much ado about nothing. Jessica can wish whatever she wants for her own child.

Vijaya, why is it more “annoying” for people to want a light skinned baby? Oh thats right in our politicially correct society, it is more acceptable to wish for darker skin than lighter, because if its the latter, people are assumed racist. Im pale as a ghost with flaming red hair and i would love for my kids to have my skin colour…but I guess that makes me annoying right?!
I was born with tan skin, people all though I was a black baby, I am not kidding. So the skin colour at birth wont prove anything just yet

I don’t think Jessica has said anything out of line. There are loads of women who want their child to be light-skinned!.. so much more annoying!. Plus, she was innocently talking about her heritage and her child’s grandfathers. There’s no point in taking it all so seriously. I’m Indian and my husband’s Italian from the north where Italians are much paler, I’m also 9 months pregnant and he sometimes tells me that he’d like our baby to be darker because he’s always wanted to be. There’s really nothing wrong with making comments about yourself and your baby to be.
In the end, you’ll love your baby no matter what!!. Good luck Jessica!.

Jessica commented about HER baby. Anyone who took offense has issues that are not Jessica’s.