Thursday, March 28, 2024

EUR Flashback News! Alicia Keys Addressed Gay Rumors & How They Got Started

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*Alicia Keys first spoke about her many insecurities and the gay rumors that have followed her throughout her career in a blog last year. 

The Grammy-winning singer explained how she learned to act tomboyish at a young age to deflect unwanted attention from men, but once the gay rumors started, she was forced to switch up her style.

Check out the excerpts from her blog post below (per ILOSM):

“For as long as I can remember, I’ve hidden myself. […] I definitely started hiding when I got old enough to walk down my NY streets alone. I started to notice a drastic difference in how men would relate to me if I had on jeans, or if I had on a skirt, or if my hair was done pretty. I could tell the difference, I could feel the animal instinct in them and it scared me. I didn’t want to be talked to in that way, looked at in that way, whistled after, followed. And so I started hiding. I chose the baggy jeans and Timbs, I chose the ponytail and hat, I chose no makeup, no bright color lipstick or pretty dresses. I chose to hide. Pieces at a time. Less trouble that way.”

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But when folks began assuming that she was a “hard” lesbian, Keys decided to dress more feminine to help dispel the rumors.

“I remember feeling that same way when I first started to get recognized as an artist. I had the baggy/braided/tough NY tomboy thing mastered, that was who I was (or who I chose to be) and I felt good there. Then, because of the way I spoke or carried myself, PEOPLE STARTED CALLING ME GAY AND HARD AND I WASN’T GAY, but I was hard and although I felt comfortable there, it made me uncomfortable that people were judging me and so slowly I hid that side of myself. I put on dresses and didn’t braid my whole head up, so people could see more of the “real” me, even though at that point I’m sure I was more confused than ever of what the real me was. I became comfortable hiding, my intelligence, my physical appearance, my truths, my thoughts, myself…”

 Keys is in a better space now and she follows a “no-makeup” lifestyle.

“To this day, every time I get out of the shower to get dressed, I swear the first thought that comes into my head is, what can I wear that won’t cause too much attention when I go pick up Egy, or head to the store, or go shopping, or visit a friend, etc.

And just the other day it hit me! OMG! Alicia!!! Why are you choosing to be that person?? That is so old and outdated!! STOP!!

I don’t have to try to go unnoticed

I don’t have to fit in

I don’t have to close up my thoughts and only speak my truth through songs!”

 You go A. Keys!

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