''I Didn't Embrace My Chocolatiness''
5:30PM ET March 6th, 2013
Contributor : Rayna Dean
A Rocky Williform Company

Kelly Rowland is one of the most beautiful women in music, but the former Destiny's Child singer revealed in an interview with EURWeb that when she was younger she struggled with being darker-skinned and learning to love that about herself.

"You know what I had great women in my life to help me overcome that," she explained. "I remember I went through a period where I didn’t embrace my chocolatiness. I don’t know if that’s a word, but I didn’t embrace my chocolate lifestyle. Just being a chocolate, lovely brown skin girl and being proud of that. I remember being out in the sun and I was trying to shield myself from the sun and [Beyonce's mom Tina Knowles] said, ‘Are you crazy?’ She said ‘You are absolutely gorgeous’ and she just told me how beautiful I was and how rare chocolate is and how gorgeous the skin is, all of this stuff. And I was just like ‘Yeah!’ Like a light went off and so and my mother had me sitting out in the sun a little more, just to be a little more chocolate."