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Noah Lyles' girlfriend Junelle Bromfield has explained how comparison to Kenyans and Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o helped her overcome colourism and negative comments about her appearance and ultimately gained confidence in her beauty and inspired other young black women.
Junelle Bromfield has explained how she managed to overcome colourism and dark comments from Jamaicans after comparisons to top Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong'o.
The two-time Olympian explained that growing up she struggled with self-esteem issues but her mother always worked around the clock to make sure she felt comfortable. However, it was quite a struggle as she would hear many people comment negative things about her.
Junelle Bromfield disclosed that when she would go to church with her siblings, many people would question if they were related since she looked different from the rest. The Jamaican quarter-miler explained that when she cut her hair in around 2016, people would tease that she looked more like a Kenyan and not a Jamaican and she would feel offended and some would even compare her to Lupita Nyong’o.
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08:01 - 25.09.2024
Noah Lyles’ girlfriend points fingers at Jamaican police officers for instigating cyberbullying against her
Noah Lyles’ girlfriend Junelle Bromfield has accused police officers in Jamaica for encouraging the online abuse and death threats directed her way.
However, when she joined the online community, she saw nothing but positive messages on Lupita Nyong’o’s accounts and she started believing that if she looked like Lupita, then she was equally beautiful. From then onwards, Junelle Bromfield started believing in her beauty and never looked back.
“Growing up, I’d never heard that, ‘Oh, you’re so pretty, apart from my mom’. What I heard was, ‘You look different from us,’ or when I would go to church, and my sisters and my brothers would come with me and you heard people be like, especially because kids can be brutal, they be like, ‘Are you sure, she’s your sister because you looking nothing alike?’,” Junelle Bromfield said.
“So, it was about 2016, I cut my hair and when I cut my hair I got a lot of teasing from it and when I ran at champs people were like, ‘You’re like a Kenyan’ and that stuff. What I heard a lot too was that I look like the actor, Lupita. On the internet, they were like, you are so beautiful and if I look like Lupita I’m beautiful too. So, I started loving myself more and when I looked in the mirror, I only saw beauty and I believed it,” she added.
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17:38 - 24.09.2024
'They would basically kill me'- Junelle Bromfield gives fresh details concerning her fear to travel to Jamaica
Noah Lyles' girlfriend Junelle Bromfield has given a detailed account of her fear of travelling to her home country, Jamaica to visit her family as she fears for her life.
She now continues to inspire young black women to embrace their beauty without focusing on what the world has to say about their looks.
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