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Jodie Turner-Smithis realistic about the differences between her upbringing and her daughter’s.
Speaking withELLE UKabout daughter Janie, who turns 3 next month, theMurder Mystery 2actress, 36, said, “I love this little girl so much. She’s so funny.”
Reflecting on motherhood, Turner-Smith acknowledges, “It’s a big job to prepare children for the world. The best thing that we can do is let them touch the earth and be grounded and real.”
In being real, she also touches on her daughter’s unique experience, adding it’s “as real as one can be when you have the level of privilege that obviously my child has.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, Turner-Smith talks about how Janie will have a “completely different experience” than either of her parents because she is both Black and white.
“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 tells the outlet.
When Turner-Smith fell in love with theDr. Deathactor, 44, she says she realized “to decide not to have a child with somebody you love, just because they’re white, was insane to me.”
“Now that I’ve got this little, tiny, light-skinned boss, I feel like it’s the universe teaching me lessons. I’ve been given a daughter who looks this way to heal my own conversations around colourism.”
source: people.com
