Kelly Rowland is one of the most beautiful woman in the world and was even name-checked by Kanye West in Power but the “Motivation” singer says it took her a while to consider herself as beautiful.
“It took a long while for me to know that I’m beautiful,” the singer wrote in a piece for Essence.com. “I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous,” she added.
Kelly says she’s now learned to once she saw the beauty within was when she started seeing the beauty on the outside.
“If you don’t know your worth, if you don’t know your value, if you don’t know how fantabulous you are — it’s going to be hard for other people to see it,” she says. “Being appreciative of self, is beauty to me.”
Kelly revealed she looks up to Oprah Winfrey, Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston as her beauty role models.
“One of my beauty icons is Oprah Winfrey. I love that fact that she’s so comfortable with herself. One of my favorite episodes of her show was when she showed millions of people how she woke up in the morning with no makeup on. That was so selfless and revealing. She’s very real and genuine and I love that.”
She added that while Halle Berry is “one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen,” she connected more with Whitney and Janet especially as a kid because “they have brown skin like me. I remember looking at magazines and television and seeing someone that looked like me and seeing a piece of myself in them.”
Kelly is set to perform at the 2011 BET Awards on June 26th!
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