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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Sep 12, 2018, 10:56 AM Sep 2018

Victoria's Secret model Devon Windsor Relates To Women Of Color, Because She's Blonde

“You know how hard it is to be blonde? I have to get a highlight every month!
Do you know how expensive that is?”

“I literally f___ing went through hell and literally lived in different countries like every other month and didn’t speak the language,” she said.

“I didn’t speak Paris,
didn’t speak Italian.
And I did that for like, two years.”

She posted this apology on Sunday, saying how her comments really came across as “incredibly insensitive.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/devon-windsor-problems-women-of-color-face-blonde_us_5b983494e4b0511db3e6ec68


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Victoria's Secret model Devon Windsor Relates To Women Of Color, Because She's Blonde (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2018 OP
Oh! The humanity! dchill Sep 2018 #1
Ironically, cyclonefence Sep 2018 #2
That's cute gratuitous Sep 2018 #3
Oh and that. Iggo Sep 2018 #6
Ha ha ha a kennedy Sep 2018 #19
Bottle blonde. nt Blue_true Sep 2018 #26
"You know how hard it is to be blonde?" Iggo Sep 2018 #4
Well, I guess Blond is a color. lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #5
That word...I don't think it means what she thinks it means. genxlib Sep 2018 #7
I can like totally relate. When I moved to this country. I like didn't speak Ohio. I Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2018 #8
Thank god for first world problems... Wounded Bear Sep 2018 #9
I want to learn to speak Paris. NT Adrahil Sep 2018 #10
"That's hot" gratuitous Sep 2018 #11
LOL... well played!! NT Adrahil Sep 2018 #18
Bwaaaaaaah malaise Sep 2018 #21
Insensitive?? Skidmore Sep 2018 #12
She is stupid & ignorant. She bleaches her hair to try and give an excuse for being such a moron. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #14
She's a poser blonde. She can always go back to being a brunette. Carpet does not match drapes. TheBlackAdder Sep 2018 #13
Is this for real? smirkymonkey Sep 2018 #15
From further down in the article ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #24
Just for her sheer stupidity, Victoria Secret should fire her. nt jrthin Sep 2018 #16
There is nothing insensitive about her statments. They were efn stupid! LiberalFighter Sep 2018 #17
Minor surgery? Miner surgery? keithbvadu2 Sep 2018 #29
Too Stupid Too Self Absorbed erpowers Sep 2018 #20
My whole body screams Nooooooooo. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #22
'Cause I'm a Blonde betsuni Sep 2018 #23
I don't understand. Blue_true Sep 2018 #25
Righhhhht JHB Sep 2018 #27
Soon to be seen on FOX News. edbermac Sep 2018 #28
why does she color her roots dark ? JI7 Sep 2018 #30
Too much peroxide has rotted her brain Raine Sep 2018 #31

genxlib

(5,524 posts)
7. That word...I don't think it means what she thinks it means.
Wed Sep 12, 2018, 11:07 AM
Sep 2018

I literally don't think this woman understands the meaning of literally. Unless of course she has actually been to hell.

It does not surprise me since she thinks Paris is a language.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
8. I can like totally relate. When I moved to this country. I like didn't speak Ohio. I
Wed Sep 12, 2018, 11:11 AM
Sep 2018

like totally literally shit my pants my first week there. I mean literally, by which I mean I didn't actually shit them but it like felt like I did!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
24. From further down in the article
Sat Sep 15, 2018, 07:14 PM
Sep 2018

Fellow model Ping Hue wasn’t impressed.

“Oh my God, tiny violin,” she said.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
20. Too Stupid Too Self Absorbed
Sat Sep 15, 2018, 05:54 PM
Sep 2018

Her comments were just too stupid and too self-absorbed. To compare herself to black women because she had lived in countries were she did not speak the language and due to her having blonde hair was completely stupid and self-absorbed. She cannot relate to black women based on those things alone. Black women have had to do with being mistreated in their own country while they spoke the language of their country. Having to pay large amounts of money to dye your hair is not the same as being mistreated solely due to your race.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
25. I don't understand.
Sat Sep 15, 2018, 07:55 PM
Sep 2018

Why would a natural blonde need highlights? We have plenty here in Florida and a lot of them are really, really blonde (even blonde eyebrows), none seem to do highlights.

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