March 28th 2023.
Actress Jodie Turner-Smith is discussing how motherhood and her biracial daughter have assisted in 'healing' her thoughts on colorism.
She and actor Joshua Jackson have been together since they met at Usher's birthday party in 2018 and married a year later; before they welcomed their daughter Janie in April 2020.
The British film star commented on how Janie's life will be 'different' from that of her Black mother and white father.
"She is going to have a completely different experience in the world than I did, because I have given birth to a mixed-race girl," Turner-Smith told Elle UK.
Although she quickly fell for Jackson, Turner-Smith initially wanted to have a child with a Black man.
"It's interesting because I had a lot of resistance to becoming a mother and, throughout my life, I always said if I were to have children, I wanted to have Black, Black babies so that I could affirm them as children with the love that I felt I needed to have been affirmed with by the outside world," she stated.
Nevertheless, after falling in love with Jackson, Turner-Smith altered her views on interracial relationships and biracial children.
"To decide not to have a child with somebody you love, just because they're white, was insane to me," she said.
"But, at the same time I did have this mini pause, where I was like, 'She's going to be walking through the world not only having an experience that I did not have, but looking like people that, in a way, I'd always felt a little bit tormented by.'
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Now that Turner-Smith is raising a biracial daughter, her opinion on the matter has changed.
"Now that I've got this little, tiny, light-skinned boss, I feel like it's the universe teaching me lessons," she said.
"I've been given a daughter who looks this way to heal my own conversations around colorism."
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