Rihanna covers the November issue of Vanity Fair magazine, and it’s like a new beginning. I have missed Rih on covers, but she hasn’t had much to promote this year except a few singles. Maybe this extensive feature points towards a secret Rihanna album on the way. Annie Leibovitz did the photography, and the shoot reminds me of a decadent version of shabby chic. Rihanna goes nude from behind, and you can see that photo here. She looks stunning as always and says she’s been hitting the gym hard this year, about an hour every day. Rihanna covers a multitude of topics, including her love of true-crime tv and a claim that she’s mostly celibate. She encourages everyone to stop believing all of the dating stories. She doesn’t want to feel crappy about casual sex and doesn’t have time for a relationship, so she just goes without getting action.
Those excerpts can be found in the full article. Below, Rihanna discusses how she’d like to forget about how Chris Brown abused her, but society won’t let her get away from it. This makes sense, and she explains herself well. Then she gets messy by praising Rachel Dolezal, the former Spokane, WA NAACP president who pretended to be African American:
On being a “poster child” for domestic abuse: “Well, I just never understood that, like how the victim gets punished over and over. It’s in the past, and I don’t want to say ‘Get over it,’ because it’s a very serious thing that is still relevant; it’s still real. A lot of women, a lot of young girls, are still going through it. A lot of young boys too. It’s not a subject to sweep under the rug, so I can’t just dismiss it like it wasn’t anything, or I don’t take it seriously. But, for me, and anyone who’s been a victim of domestic abuse, nobody wants to even remember it. Nobody even wants to admit it. So to talk about it and say it once, much less 200 times, is like … I have to be punished for it? It didn’t sit well with me.”
She digs Rachel Dolezal: “I think she was a bit of a hero, because she kind of flipped on society a little bit. Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black? Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”
Her naked C.F.D.A. “dress:: “I wanted to wear something that looked like it was floating on me. But after that, I thought, O.K., we can’t do this again for a while. No nipples, no sexy sh*t, or it’s going to be like a gimmick. That night [at the C.F.D.A. awards] was like a last hurrah; I decided to take a little break from that and wear clothes.”
She wants to be normal: “Dude! Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal. Something that can keep you a little bit uncomfortable. A hundred percent. Because life is not perfect, and the minute you feel it’s perfect, it’s not real. Artists sign a deal to make music; we didn’t sign to be perfect, or to be role models. We’re all flawed human beings who are learning and growing and evolving and going through the same bullsh*t as everybody else. The fact that people expect the day we sign we’re supposed to be perfect does not make any fucking sense to me. Even tragedy, every trial in your life, is a test. It’s like a class – you take an exam, and if you pass, you move on to the next. You still have to take another test and prove yourself again.”
[From Vanity Fair]
Oh, that C.F.D.A.’s dress (which was Adam Selman) was insane. No wonder she started wearing clothes again after that madness. Good on Rihanna for pausing the gimmick and realizing she’d nearly gone too far. I sort of feel for her complaints about fame because she rarely talks about the downsides of her life. She’d miss being famous, and she thrives upon posing sexy photos on Instagram, but a vacation from all the hype and non-stop touring would probably be relaxing. Now, I don’t even know what to say about Rihanna’s Rachel Dolezal comments. A hero, really?
Photos courtesy of Vogue/Annie Leibovitz, Fame/Flynet & WENN
Oh, be quiet. You’re not as ‘edgy’ as you think you are. #thirsty
Nah keep talking, I enjoyed the except.
Yeah, I agree. I thought her comments about domestic violence were really intelligent, actually. Being very open about being the victim of violence isn’t part of everyone’s healing process, and that’s good for people to acknowledge.
I LOVE Rihanna. I think she is an amazingly strong woman and doesn’t deserve all the hate she gets. And I loved her comments on domestic violence. As somebody that has been through it, it really spoke to me. I don’t want to remember it either, or talk about it so I get her.
The problem with Rihanna is how she has exploited that event in her life for cash and edge. The girl thinks singing the chorus to a rap delving into the mind of an abuser (rapped by a famed unapologetic abuser) is the ultimate edge. She knows how blurry the line between rough sex and domestic violence is, especially for young women who are her fans, so she throws a few of those into every album. She knows the visual image we have of her being beat up in a car, so she has a video in which she is in a weird heated argument in a car with a Chris Brown look-a-like (who resolves the fight by roughly grabbing her face).
And theres the way she made sure to sensationalize her return to Chris Brown. Lots and lots of tweets and instagram photos (have you seen her do that with any other relationship? Even with Drake?). Then for good measure, did a bunch of collaborations with him. One with a racist insult directed at her sister wife and another telling people its not their business – which is why she kept tweeting and singing about him of course, because its nobodys business. Also, aside from the fact that she was well aware that the jerk had a girlfriend when she slowly slunk back into his life, she made out as though his refusal to dump his girlfriend for her was some kind of betrayal. Please! You are the mistress, what did you expect?
If she doesnt wish to speak on it thats absolutely fine. But Rihanna does speak, she uses her position of influence to minimise and even glamourise domestic violence. I mean to this day, she is still defending Chris. In the article linked above, she refers to Eminem as “a good person”. She may just be a deeply damaged individual or she may be genuinely indifferent to abuse and be more interested in how to capitalise on the situation, either way if she cant add anything positive to that conversation (and she still hasnt after all this time) then she needs to keepher mouth shut and stop skirting around the theme in her music. I read her fans tweets sometimes and its shocking see how much they minimize domestic violence. “She loves him, love conquers all” and “they could have lived happpily ever after but for Kerreuche” and “she forgave him, thats all that matters” are common messages
@Mimif, I’m with you. I liked this whole interview. She’s entertaining.
Very well put Naya!
she makes a good point about not wanting to be the poster child for domestic abuse. you know who SHOULD be the poster child? every abuser. THEY need to be asked over and over again what they were thinking when they attacked someone they “love.” Same with rapists. Ask them. Someone please ask Chris Brown, Ben Rothleisburger (sp), Woody Allen, etc. about how they deal with being an abuser/rapist. Why is it taboo to ask the abuser but not the abused?
Leave her alone I don’t think she trying to be edgy
So she shows up naked all of the time because she is trying to be classy? Elegant?? She is always trying to be edgy!!
And for someone who wants to wear clothes, she had on a see-though nightgown with no bra again recently. Total view of her breasts. Sure, Rihanna. You don’t want to be naked again.
Why is she famous?? Her voice is embarrassing, she has no class. Oh. She’s pretty. And got beaten up and then went back with the guy. I don’t get it at all.
I see Jib is a pearl clutcher and not a feminist. Keep doing you, Ri. Be whoever the hell you want to be by your OWN definitions.
The fashion industry seems to think she’s fashionable and so do a lot of other people who may think What is “elegant and classy” is boring, and just a narrow view if it doesn’t hold up to your interpretation of it.
Thirsty? Please. She is one of the most hydrated celebrities out there.
Lmao
@Naya I bet you have never made any mistakes …good for you
I can’t even lie, I really like her here. Aside from the Dolezal comments, I think most of what she said makes sense.
Yeah me too, she sounded grounded and articulate here. I chose to interpret the Dolezal thing as a joke, especially after she spoke about not being dismissive of DV, but I’m also a fan so there ya go.
add me to this one too!
Me three. She sounds very thoughtful here.
@ almondjoy
So you’re giving Rihanna a pass for this? If a white woman said something remotely similar you would “drag” them for it.
Dee… I’m not sure if you know me but you speak as if you do. I don’t have a habit of “dragging” people and I have never “dragged” anybody on this site, whether they were white or black. And I’m not giving her a pass.. I said ASIDE from the Rachel Dolezal comments, I like her here. I seriously have zero clue what you’re talking about.
Always gotta be one, AJ. 😏
@Dee
Your comment makes no sense. A white woman didn’t say it and would have no place saying it-so maybe she should get dragged for that…Rihanna however, brings a perspective of a black woman.
I understand where Rihanna is coming from re Dolezal. The main reason I wouldnt have put it like she did, is, I feel she took opportunities reserved for African American women in the employment sector within a black organization.
However if she hadn’t done that id have no issues with her.
Rachel loves being black, is proud mom of black children, supporta thw black community, and reveals through this incident that that is her preferred reality, to live life as a black woman.
Black people found her need to be black and her love of black culture to be more acceptable than these virulent racists constantly attackimg blacks today, and not respecting any part of our lives today.
Caro, theres no such thing as transrace, either biologically or in socioanthropological terms. You are either one thing or you are not. Nothing kept Rachel from engaging black culture or working on equality issues as a white woman. Her fraud is no different from people who pretend to have been at 9/11 sites or to be cancer survivors. Its a weird Munchausen Syndrome thing, where you get off from being thought of as an underdog who through your internal strength have overcome your circumstances. She can go around pointing out what a “strong black woman” she is even though she could easily opt out as soon as sh*t gets real. She made a mockery of the black struggle. She is disgusting as is Rihanna for hailing her “a hero”.
@NAYA
Did I mention the word “transrace,” in my post? No. I did not.
I happen to agree that there’s no such thing as ‘transrace,’ mainly because there’s no such thing as ‘race,’ either. Go check it out. It’s true what they’ve always said (and by ‘they,’ I mean scientists and anthropoogists) – race is a social construct.
You may see her as mocking black people but that isn’t the opinion of someone who is astute and can read people, becauae it’s clear she has a reverence for black identity. It may be mockery for you, but for her its her real life.
@Caro
Yup, Rachel has a reverence for being black and people with Munchausen have a reverence for having cancer.
Mimif, I mean SERIOUSLY 😂😂😂 I must have pissed Dee off in another thread that I don’t remember.
Caro, so what kept this “hero” (God, Rihannas stupidity is officially confirmed!) from revering black culture without physically altering her appearance and claiming a heritage that wasnt hers? And dont be ridiculous, race may be a social construct but it has clear physical identifiers and very real implications in how the world navigates around those of us with darker pigment and Rachel knows all about the physical identifiers seeing as she went to a hell of a lot of trouble to mimic them. Dont be so gullible, if that woman cared about the black plight she could have worked on those issues without faking her entire life. She chose to work in civil rights because thats where she could most capitalise on her “look at what a survivor I am black women. Now worship me for overcoming challenges I dont actually have to face”. I dont know who is worse, her or her apologists. I mean atleast we can be sure she suffers from atleast one mental condition and a personality disorder in the narcissist spectrum, her apologists on the other hand are just daft.
Naya I going to go on and just confirm you that stupid one. I mean you are here writing literal paragraphs about someone you clearly hate. So much time you have so little to do. While Rihanna lives her life not giving AF about you and planning her next million dollar move. I guess those who cant … hate
Caro If you are going to mock up a user name atleast attempt to change your writing style. Too transparent. Shame on anybody who would back Rachel Dolozeals brand of appropriation. I am not “flattered” by a white person trying to claim my heritage in order to get a smoother path through life and be able to claim free points for “overcoming”. We already knew that Rihanna is a self loathing woman but it now appears she is also a self loathing black person. Gross. Shame she has such a platform to influence her sheeple followers.
I think she’s not really getting the Dolezal thing. It wasn’t that Dolezal pretended to be black, but that she was all about claiming racism (when she had only voluntarily experienced it, if at all).
But Rihanna kind of has the same stance as Black Panthers in the sense that black identity shouldn’t always be formed in relation to white identity but discretely, as something good and powerful in itself. I don’t mind if someone wants to not focus on the victimization aspects, as long as they don’t try to efface them.
Yeah Rachel Dolezal didn’t really use her ‘blackness’ for good.
She claimed racial attacks against herself that she perpetrated. She made racist and cruel comments to her minority students. She sued for discrimination against her for being white and then claimed more discrimination when she was black.
She was more so a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
wondering your thoughts on this, from Wesley Morris, in the NYT… “Dolezal’s unwavering certainty that she was black was a measure of how seriously she believed in integration: It was as if she had arrived in a future that hadn’t yet caught up to her.”
Yes, Rachel’s fatal flaw was that she was a liar. But I see what Rihanna means, it was a flip of the passing for white thing that did shake things up and get people thinking. But Rachel is a liar and that’s the problem. If she just let people assume what they wanted about her ethnic origins, no biggie. But she didn’t have a compelling reason like those who “passed for white” (really being mostly European anyway by genetics, in a sane society it wouldn’t be considered deceitful at all) who were facing serious restrictions and dangers because of a small amount of African ancestry. She lied about more than her genetics to bolster her story, and that caused real problems for others. She could have achieved all her legitimate goals without the lies.
@Birdix
I’m not sure if you’re responding to me or Greenie but if it’s me from everything I’ve read about the woman Rachel didn’t have an ‘unwavering certainty’. Before she claimed to be black she claimed she was Native American, lived in a teepee and was beaten for her skin tone.
This woman basically bounced from identity to identity.
I like Rihanna and I think she always comes across well.
I want to say I was not offended by Rachel Dozeal and didn’t really understand the hype. It felt like Americans got carried away with her not being what she should be.
Please let’s not forget that RiRi is a bajan and her beliefs reflect that.
I think the real story here is what she said about victims of domestic violence. I love that she still gave the issue the credence it deserves by making a point to say that she never wanted to dismiss it, but I also really feel for her. It must be so hard to have to relive that night so many times, but it sounds like she still does it for the sake of those who suffer through the same and worse but don’t quite have the same platform she does. I love how articulately she spoke about the black, white, and grey areas of her feelings on the issue. Rhi is beautiful inside and out, and I love her. She’s a jewel.
Awesome. Can’t wait to buy it!!!
Rihanna is always saved by her DGAF attitude. I think both her and Taylor Swift are great business women, but Rihanna seems so effortless- although I bet she is just as strategic as TS.
+1 Totally agree with this.
YES, here it is (finally)! I absolutely LOVE how the author waits until the end of this post to mention Rihanna’s comments about Rachel Dolezal (and barely says anything at that). That bias really shows.
As a black woman, I find it VERY insulting for her to praise Rachel Dolezal in any way – especially by calling her a hero. I’ll say the same thing I’ve been saying for years – Rihanna is a fool. And her comment on Dolezal proves she’s an even bigger idiot than I thought.
The Rachel Dolezal comment is in the middle. It’s not at the end.
@Britney
True.
And Rihanna’s very own subsequent vicious verbal & emotional abuse of Karruche Tran – over Chris Brown no less!!- has always left a bad taste in my mouth anytime she talks about their relationship, and what followed.
The Rachel Dolezal comment ended up being the title of the post. It is also mentioned twice, aside from the actual quote. The interview is thousands of words long. If there was “bias,” it would have been left out completely from this post because there are many other quotes to choose from.
I think her statement on Rachel Dolezal is in reaction to some people not understanding why someone might WANT to be black.
Yeah I was just saying that *in my head* I read it with Paul Mooney’s voice, like why wouldn’t that basic white bish wanna be black.
mimif strikes again. LOL….
I liken it to men who claim to identify as women. I was born a woman, and have had to deal with sexist treatment in educational, social, medical, and work settings my entire life. I also have had to deal with the constant threat of rape, unwanted pregnancy, restricted access to abortion, and the general misogyny that permeates the media. I, like most women, have been taught since the time I was small that my worth lay in my appearance, and consequently I am much less confident in my appearance than your average man. I suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a male relative, which boys are many times less likely to experience than girls. I have had to deal with sexual harassment since my breasts sprouted. I have spent two-thirds of my life dealing with very painful and debilitating periods. I suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome.
A man can choose to dress and act like a woman, but has he really experienced life the way I, and other women like me, have? Does he understand the millions of small details that make up being female in current US society? Does he know what it’s like to be slut-shamed, to be mocked by clerks when buying pads or tampons?
Does he understand how frustrating it is that we STILL have not had a female president?
He can revert to being male any time he chooses. For him, living life as a woman is a choice. For me, it’s a biological reality.
Rachel Dolezal can paint herself a different colour, but she hasn’t grown up black. She doesn’t truly understand it.
I love Rihanna, always have. The only true popstar that has a real edge and does what she wants. Even Gaga I feel just playacts at it or spends time trying to shock. Rihanna just “is” who she is. Rihanna always looks amazing no matter what she wears. She just pulls it off, never looking try-hardy.
And even with all the perks of massive fame, I too would hate the fact that you can’t just walk into a grocery store without everyone staring at you. It would be unnerving to me. Add the fact that now everyone is pulling out their iPhones to snap you and sell it for money. It’s a trade-off.
We’re so busy trying to shame Chris Brown and other abusers we forget about the women. Nobody wants to constantly be reminded they’ve been beaten.
True. Same with sexual assault.
But as for her Rachel Dolezal comments, oh honey child NO. That woman is nothing close to a hero. What she is an opportunist and a liar. Kinda mad at Riri for bringing her up which means people’ll be chattering about her again.
She is so stupid.
I’m too tired to even get into it.
Ironically, the fact that Rihanna can get away with praising Rachel Dolezal in this manner is only because she is black (real, not fake) — a form of moral authority which Rachel Dolezal wanted for herself and then went about stealing. If Rihanna were a white woman and made the same remarks it would be totally insensitive and seen as negating the entire black experience.
Rihanna didn’t think it through. Emotionally, she saw a white person wishing they could be black as racial progress. And maybe it is racial progress, but only in a very twisted and wrong-headed way.
Because Dolezal posed as a black person to obtain a particular form of admiration she is not entitled to. As a student of black history she spent a great deal of time studying black struggles against various forms of discrimination. She wants the moral authority that comes with being both the victim of injustice and the one who overcomes it, and she wants the richness of that culture for herself. It’s a really misguided form of admiration.
I’m glad Dolezal came along because she made us think about this stuff and talk about it.
Rihanna always keeps it so real. I love a woman that speaks her mind the way she does. Her opinion on Rachel Dolezal is unpopular but it does make you think. I was reading comments on other websites about that whole controversy and so many of them said: why would you want to pose as black woman if you’re white and blonde? It just had me thinking that some people really do have a racial ranking ingrained in their minds.
Lets not spin this around. RD was doing blackface basically. Don’t romanticize it and pretend like it’s because she admired black beauty or anything of that sort.
For Rihanna to call her a hero just shows how idiotic she is.
No I don’t agree with Rihanna calling Rachel a hero. I don’t respect the woman. And I don’t like what she did. But she did, inadvertently, make me realize how other people can’t wrap their minds around how this woman or any person would want to be black.
@Nik you might have interpreted it as blackface and that’s perfectly fine. But I get what Yabby is trying to say. I think there is another way to see it, it’s not very often that you see someone who is not black who wants to BE black. You see some profit from black culture or identify with it but this woman was all in, like, I’M BLACK. From what I gather from my time on this earth, most people(who are not black) would rather be any other minority group than black or dark skin so I think Rih was happy to see someone view black as something great, something to be desired for a change.
@Shin
Except she did profit and she became black because she felt she was being denied certain job opportunities and achievements. She became black right after she sued for discrimination for being white and when she was black she then made an entire dialogue about all the racist attacks she was under.
She also was racist to her minority students by publicly mocking those she felt were too light skin for their given minority and making them feel alienated. So no, no gold star from me for Rachel.
She chose to be black for the same reason she claimed she was sexually assaulted by her brother and the same reason some people claim to have cancer when they don’t.
@shinebright +1000
Ugh, my comment was for shinebright not shin. Sorry ladies it’s sometimes hard to see full screen names.
WORD.
Yes Yabby you get it.
She’s so right. You want to forget it, you don’t want to remember those feelings. And to have to go through it as a public figure-that truly sucks. As for her take on Dolezal-that’s her take. I was grossed out by that woman, but that’s my perspective. Go Riri!
C’mon girl, you’re not an artist. You don’t have the music in you. You’re just a pop star who sings crappy songs badly
I think what she meant is that it is refreshing to see being black something that is coveted for a change. But “hero”? Pfff. People throw that word around way too much.
I understand why people would find her comment as problematic, but I interpreted it as sly and wry.
Yep. This is exactly what she was saying but hero was the wrong word.
RiRi
Really Rachel a hero …..Ok then
This is why Beyonce doesn’t give interviews, better for people to speculate that you aren’t that bright than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
Edit; Her other comments re DV etc actually sound quite lucid
^This.
Beyoncé has given interviews. No need for speculation. She just doesn’t give interviews anymore. But soon as she drops her next CD the Queen B will be talking again.
I hate when black people try to make it seem like a white person acknowledging or liking any part of them is somehow a major achievement.
Rachel isn’t a hero for doing what you do everyday Rihanna, and she’s certainly not a hero when she washes off the makeup and takes off the wig and goes back to being a regular white woman when you have no choice.
Thank you! Someone finally gets it.
Yep.
For real, this isn’t a complient. She lied, the end. Bish, she’s white.
I think the photo spread is terrible. However, I think I might buy this just to read the article with her. It sounds pretty interesting.
She is gorgeous. That is all.
I’m still confused about Rachal Dolezal. I don’t understand why she is a villainess for authentically feeling herself to be black, and Caitlyn is a heroine.
@DB because gender is real and inherent, while race is a construct and is not.
It’s one thing to have been born with male sex organs and to have always felt like a girl from a young toddler. No one feels like a particular racial/ethnic/nationality etc, from a baby.
Race is not a construct. There is a biological basis to race. Bone structure, susceptibility to diseases, typical phenotypic traits. The way we react to race is a different story. Humans typically associate certain cultural traits with certain races, sometimes based on historical evidence and sometimes out of pure bias. Culture is actually where the idea of “racial identity” comes from, based on the culture traditionally practiced by an ethnic group, but most people conflate the two. I think the longing to be a particular race, as in Rachel Dolezal’s case, is actually a longing to be accepted as part of a particular culture. In which case the desired culture is conflating race and cultural identity. Black culture, for example, clearly is based on actually being black, which stems from a sort of unity based in the racism encountered by blacks in decades past. And black culture endures today, and you still have to be black to be accepted as part of black culture. Whereas mainstream white culture can be adopted by anybody, acceptably so by all but racists.
If Rachel really feels she is Black then why did she sue Howard U for racial discrimination? Why list White as her race when she applied for City of Spokane police board? What race will she be in 2016?
Well it’s like Jaqueline Sephora Andrews, a trans woman said, “I really can’t say that I always felt like a woman because I really don’t know what it means to ‘feel like a woman.’
She’s pretty much saying that a man can’t feel like he’s a woman when he has never been a woman. It’s more of an issue of having sex dysphoria. A mismatch between sex and gender identity.
@db Read this article by Meghan Murphy. It explains a lot and answer your question regarding Caitlyn and Dolezal. And no, it’s not all in favor of Caitlyn.
http://www.feministcurrent.com/2015/06/17/you-cant-feel-race-but-can-you-feel-female-on-rachel-dolezal-caitlyn-jenner-and-unspeakable-questions/
@v4real Thank you for this, I will read it for sure. My puzzlement is genuine, since Dolezal seemed to have some kind of dysphoria herself.
@Caro That’s interesting, have to consider that. The Caitlyn coverage has been confusing sometimes because some people claim gender is a construct, and the same can be claimed of race. On a certain level one could say most things are construct and there is no inherent “realness” in them and I’d think this is especially true of self-perception and feelings.
@Colette I don’t have to answer to that one, as she also has a long history of various issues, family drama, etc. I’m glad Rhi pointed out some of the public’s reaction to Dolezal as telling, and I agree with her as far as it goes.
I love Ri. Always have, always will. I feel like she’s a real boss about everything she does. And, besides those questionable quotes on Dolezal, I think she makes a lot of sense. I especially feel for her regarding the domestic abuse subject. The picture of her face after Chris Brown beat her is up there for everyone to see and is one of the first that shows up when you google her name. No matter how much money she makes, that must not feel good.
A lot of people judge her for being thirsty but I seriously dont get that people. Making headlines is their job and their way of staying relevant. Its how the industry works. If you’re such a fan of privacy what the hell are you doing in a gossip forum?
Love riri. Not sure if she understands all the problematic things about Rachel dolezal but I’ll give her a pass. Her comments about Chris brown really speak to me. Although I was never in an abusive relationship I was with someone who used me and manipulated me for two years. I knew he was a pos and I continued putting up with it until, like she says, I realized that he would never respect me, he would never change and I could not fix his issues with my love and understanding.
Am not a fan of Rihanna’s personality or music but there are two things I love about her. She is all natural ; pointy forehead, not so pointed nose, small-chested but in all these she has never gone under the knife to correct these so called flaws as it’s seen in Hollyweird. And secondly her weight hardly fluctuates as the rest of her peers. She isn’t skinny – has never been- but maintains a healthy looking body. These are something commendable.
She’s got great boobs. It’s why she’s shown them often enough. LOL They aren’t huge, but most men aren’t hung up on huge ta-tas, but do love great boobs. And hers are great when looked at in the whole package. Her breasts are shaped beautifully, not droopy, and look amazing braless. She’s like J-LO that way. Both great bodies. I agree about her weight, never talks about it, doesn’t obsess,, and stays consistent.
You’re crazy…pointed forehead!?!? What are you talking about?!? And her breasts are at least a C they are not small. And she is thin in a healthy way.
I loved her Adam Selman dress, I thought the dress and the whole look were just stunning and beautiful. Yes she was “naked” but I thought it glorified the female body in an artistic way. Maybe I’m an oddball, but I totally agree about Dolezal *ducks*.
I did too. I think pop stars and models are different and can pull that off, and she was glorious in it. I think she’s smart about it not wanting to become a shtick. Gaga has overdone it, showing her boobs with see-through outfits almost ad nauseum in the last several years.
I feel happy for Rihanna. I didn’t need this article to see her growth – it was obvious. It was a bumpy road she traveled from being ok with Chris after he abused her to her actually getting it. He’s no good for you. Period. You’re better than that. And now she’s literally on top of the world. Im not a Rihanna fan, but i cheer for her growth as a strong young woman. She’s done well.
Also Kaiser… you didn’t mention her “whining” when she also mentioned going to the grocery store like Rob. “I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.” We dismiss celebrity too easy. But clearly, its not just whining… lol But a sacrifice to their fame. One we didn’t hear about until he went to the store now.
I liked this interview a lot, actually. Aside from her comments about Dolezal, who I don’t care about, she comes across really well here. I’ve always had a soft spot for her, especially after what she’s been through.
she is lovely and I agree with her. On RD
I have a soft spot for Rihanna she just comes across as more real than most other pop stars, apart from the dolezal comments i think she spoke intelligently.
I agree. “Artists sign a deal to make music; we didn’t sign to be perfect, or to be role models. ” needs to be taken seriously because there is no reason artists/actors should be taken as role models and have to apologize for just being human and living life on their own terms instead of some cookie cutter perfect idea of a role model
I think it was kind of heroic in the sense that why can’t people want to be black? It’s no less inferior, you have terms like Oreo and here for the first time was some woman born white (privilege) who was like I’m going to pretend to be black. I’m going to deal with racism and what not just because I feel like I wa born with the wrong skin tone. I don’t know, I’m in France so I didn’t hear all of the backlash but it was kind of overblown. Denigrate her for lying to get a job but don’t hate her because she wishes she was born a different color. It was just sitting such weird hate. She wasn’t bashing it either (from what I could tell) or displaying it negatively.
Pls don´t talk about it before you know all the facts. It was in NO WAY overblown. Rachel took away job opportunities from rightful qualified & BLACK women, she pretended to KNOW what it feels like to be black & struggle, she was even giving classes on that matter to black people. & she had on top of that the nerve to spin a web of lies about being discriminated against because she pretended that she is – you won´t believe it- … black. -_-
Anyone praising or “understanding” her is just out of mind. Especially black people.
Rihanna is a new black, as much as it pains me to say so. She never voiced any concern or opinion about the plights of the black communities before & the one time she does, it´s to call a racist fraud a hero? & that in a notoriously racist magazine like Vanity Fair? Yeah. -_-
Honest question:
Why are people painting this as something admirable when we have individuals who shave their head and eyebrows, go on diarrhetics and lose tremendous weight, make themselves physically sick and pale to claim they have cancer?
Many of them ‘raise awareness’ for illnesses and get their entire community to be more informed and compassionate. They fight for the cause of treating cancer and work with foundations that seek to help others. Yet when we find out they’re committing fraud (because that’s the actual term for someone falsely claims to be something they’re not for financial gain) we rightfully condemn them.
People trying to make anything Rachel did as good make me believe they still don’t get it. Being black isn’t some static identity you can slip on, it’s a generation of cultural discussion that has occured before all of us and an individual component of our own unique experiences.
We do not all have the same hair or skin tone, we do not claim abuse where we have experienced none, we do not commit fraud for attaining positions made for us due to the unfair society we live in.
Rachel didn’t deal with racism, when facts were uncovered there was no proof of ANY racist action against her that she didn’t do. Furthermore she was racist to others as evidence by statements from her students. I think if you actually research Rachel’s actions you might realize that the backlash was well deserved and the lack of understanding is people still not appreciating the black identity in America.
Overreacting much !
the fact she gave classes on “life as a black woman” makes LOL so hard I mean this lady needs no defense, she’s mental!
@terry
Nah, reacting just right, I don’t salivate when a white person embraces some aspect of blackness.
@Dvaria
I mean this woman was going for gold with claiming she was black, lol.
Invented a black Daddy and everything.
Riri tries to appear more classy and more intelligent in order to do her Dior advertising contracts justice.
There was an article in the Daily Mail in which Riri denies to have one night stands. Seriously? When the rumours about her alleged hookups with Dicaprio turned up SHE did neither deny nor confirm. Dicaprio had to deny it but Riri seemed to thrive on those stories about her sex life. In other words: Riri uses (alleged) sex to make money.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3262051/I-horny-don-t-sex-random-dudes-Rihanna-reveals-NEVER-one-night-stands-secretly-lonely.html
The article above is a perfect example for mentioning something and denying it at the same time: “I am not saying I am …”.
I have a problem with her hypocrisy. One the one hand she is all-empowered in her songs and sexuality and all. And then the publishes a song which glorifies and justifies strippers and prostitution (“Pour It Up”). Feminism wasn’t about glorification and justification of sex work.
Nor is style about wearing any sh*t outfit in public with enough confidence to silence anybody. That is confidence, yes. But not style.
Well hello Rihanna’s v jay jay. Nice to meet you
Love Rihanna period
@naya +1000
The reason people continue to focus on CB is because she forgave him and continued to date him, foolish girl.
The average domestic violence victim goes back three times. Rihannas is a human being like you and me ..
How can you possibly be “mostly celibate”? ‘Celibate’ means no sex (or marriage) at all. Either you’re celibate or you’re not, lol.
i find all this interesting. I believe the word Rihanna used were a bit of a hero not hero. She says this becuase for some reason here is someone wwho really wants to be black whiscj is not a usual thing for society