I watched yesterday's show on skin bleaching & my jaw literally dropped. I am dark skinned Korean-American who faces judgement within her own race. In Korea, light skin symbolizes purity & beauty, so many partake in skin bleaching as well. As I grew older, I accepted the tone of my skin & loved the fact I was different. I was excited to lay out in the sun & become "carmelized". Those women on the show should be proud of their skin because there are plenty of girls who envy it. Tell them to listen to India Arie-Brown Skin. LOL.

I watched yesterday's show on skin bleaching & my jaw literally dropped. I am dark skinned Korean-American who faces judgement within her own race. In Korea, light skin symbolizes purity & beauty, so many partake in skin bleaching as well. As I grew older, I accepted the tone of my skin & loved the fact I was different. I was excited to lay out in the sun & become "carmelized". Those women on the show should be proud of their skin because there are plenty of girls who envy it. Tell them to listen to India Arie-Brown Skin. LOL.

My answer is NO! Its what you make of anything that makes it beautiful or ugly. I have a sister who looks like mw but is white. Im the dark version but im more popular than her and that's in a good way.

Dear Tyra, I want to comment on what was said by one of your viewers. I am a Black woman, and I want to say that I agree fully with the comment made by Jordan Vallene. First of all, Blacks(Africans)were the first to enslave their own race. Then, they sold their own people into slavery to the Whites/Causcasians/Europeans. Therefore, blacks have no right to continue blaming Caucasians for the way they (Blacks) continue to discriminate against people within their own race. There are a lot of evil and sick-minded black people in this world. Furthermore, Black people are teaching one another to not like another black person based on his or her skin tone. Black Entertainment such as BET and others are very degrading shows that have Black hosts, famous Black guest/Entertainers that dehumanize dark-skinned Black women. It is true, Many Black men(famous or not) speak negatively and poorly of dark-skinned Black women. So, my advice to everyone who blames the white/Caucasian man for the ways Blacks discriminate against other Blacks, "It's not the Caucasians problem, its a "Big" problem within the Black race. Blacks need to stop discriminating against one another. Sincerely, Rhonda

Dear Tyra, those people are sick, especially the woman who bleached her kids, that should be illegal.SICK SICK SICK! Blame it all on MEDIA!

anchal is very beautiful. i'm an asian woman with golden tan skin and naturally curly hair. when i went back to my homeland, everyone is obsess about whitening skin products. they have whitening lotion, cream, serum and milk bath to whiten people skin. anyone who is lighter skin asain they are consider beautiful. peple i know back home kept telling that i should whiten my skin and out of their kindness, i was given many whitening skin care. it's very ignorance to say that all asian look the same. as asian, we come in different shades, shapes and sizes as well, but only group of women in catelog/magazine we see are chinese/japanese/korean looking women. personally, i think that we have a ray of beauties here in America. we can see many beautiful women in all ethnic background. i'm so proud that anchal speak out for other asian. what she said is true and i didn't realized it before until that trip. thank you.!!

Dark skin is beautiful I am a dark skin female. I used to think I was pretty because my skin was so dark but I dont feel that way anymore. I looked in the mirror one day and said forget what other people think im beautiful and so is Anchal I dont think any girl should feel unpretty.

WELL HERE IT GOES IM A DARK BROWNED SKINNED FEMALE IVE BEEN ASKED IF IM OF DOMINICAN DECENT FROM SOME PEOPLE BECOUSE I HAVE SOME INDIAN IN ME AND MY HAIR NOW I FEEL THERES UGLY IN EVERY RACE EVERY COMPLEXION AND TERES PRETTY IN EVERY RACE AND COMPLEXION JUST BECOUSE YOUR LIGHTSKINNED DOESNT MAKE YOU PRETTIER OR BETTER AND VICE VERSA I HAVE ALL COMPLEXIONS IN MY FAMILY SO I DONT CARE ABOUT THE COMPLEXION THING IT JUST DOESNT MATTER TO ME PEOPLE NEED TO GROW UP AND CUT THE NONSENCE OUT

WELL HERE IT GOES IM A DARK BROWNED SKINNED FEMALE IVE BEEN ASKED IF IM OF DOMINICAN DECENT FROM SOME PEOPLE BECOUSE I HAVE SOME INDIAN IN ME AND MY HAIR NOW I FEEL THERES UGLY IN EVERY RACE EVERY COMPLEXION AND TERES PRETTY IN EVERY RACE AND COMPLEXION JUST BECOUSE YOUR LIGHTSKINNED DOESNT MAKE YOU PRETTIER OR BETTER AND VICE VERSA I HAVE ALL COMPLEXIONS IN MY FAMILY SO I DONT CARE ABOUT THE COMPLEXION THING IT JUST DOESNT MATTER TO ME PEOPLE NEED TO GROW UP AND CUT THE NONSENCE OUT

im darker skin-ed (tyras extra ed) and when i was young i thought all the lighter skin girl were really pretty. as i got older my opinion has definitely change but i still have those ugh im so dark skin especially when you see all these cosmetics, skin cleanser, payless bogo sales commercials with light skin blued eyes girls. like as if us chocolate sistahz are not as pretty.

Ok......I have longed for the day for this discussion to actually become a "discussion". I am what they call Tawny, I am the dark of the light spectrum and the light of the dark spectrum. I am a divine mixture of a very fair light mother and a dark skinned father. I have black curly hair and to by most I am called light-skinned, to some who are lighter I am true-tawny. I grew up in a house with a very-fair mother and a sister who was a chocolate color. Now, let me begin by saying... those who were born with people on color may have a different view on things, but I was born in 1974 and the first woman of color that I saw praised in the media for her beauty was Vanessa Williams. I love her and she is in my mother's so called category, but she did not reflect most of us. Let's face it dark skinned women have been abused!!! PERIOD, look up the full meaning of abuse. They have been discounted. There once was a saying that black men use to say "if its white or light-its alright, if its black jump back" for me that sums it all up!!! I too have fell victim to comments by darker women assuming that I have some preverbial "golden spoon" in my mouth and I promise you that couldn't be further from the truth. You see I have been on both spectrums, I was considered dark by my mother's relatives and light by my fathers. I have had both identity challenges. Its easy to say comments like don't let men who like lighter women forge your self-esteem, but let's look at it from this view point. As a people who have struggled just to have identity

I'm am a very dark-skinned African American teenager with very dark skin. Its much harder for me because I am very dark. My father has told me that my sister, who is lighter, will always have it easier than me, simply because of my skin tone. The teasing that I have gotten from school because of it has caused me to become greatly depressed. I remember once I was in school and someone told me that if I laid on this black table I would blend in with it. So is black less beautiful? I would say so, considering treatment that people that are as dark as I am get.

I'm am a very dark-skinned African American teenager with very dark skin. Its much harder for me because I am very dark. My father has told me that my sister, who is lighter, will always have it easier than me, simply because of my skin tone. The teasing that I have gotten from school because of it has caused me to become greatly depressed. I remember once I was in school and someone told me that if I laid on this black table I would blend in with it. So is black less beautiful? I would say so, considering treatment that people that are as dark as I am get.

hey tyra, Am 15 years of age and i got a very dark skin and i come from a family of 3 and am the only girl and both my brothers took from my mother who is light in complection it always affected me but i grew to know that black is bueatiful i am told am good for the modelling industry but i have not tried it out,help me tyra its also my dream to be one am 15 and 1.68 tall.

Okay, i've read enough!First of all, I want to start off by acknowledging the few and i do mean FEW ladies that doesn't need to seek a therapist. ROSE, YOLANDA, ROSETTA, and CHRISTINE, i couldn't agree more, what great advice you all have given. Now listen up ladies, I'm not Tyra, but i'm sure she would agree with my opinions about the comments some of you are making. There's nothing more less attractive than a pessimistic, low self esteem having, self pitying, person with little to no self worth. Doesn't matter how light or dark your skin is sistah. I know we all heard the old saying " beauty starts from within" and it couldn't be more true. Many of you have held on to so many negative comments that instead of pouring them out(let go in one ear and out the other) you've marinated in them, which caused this self hatred. Lets be honest, it's not a battle between light skin vs dk skin, it's a battle you're going through within yourself that you need to end as soon as possible. Nothing good is ever gong to come out of it as long as you keep this mentality. It's all about POWER, yes power, and with whom you choose to give it to. With power you get control. If you allow someone to ruin your self esteem and hurt your feelings, you've given them power to control your emotions. Once that happens, it changes your attitude, which changes your mind state, which eventually tampers with your mentality, then you start what we call hatin' on people. Ladies stop targeting females that look opposite of you and viewing them as your enemies because they're not. For the record,ladies quit letting guys dictate how you feel about yourself and especially other