Why Raven-Symone Used to Tan ‘Three or Four Times a Week’
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Kevin Winter/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Raven-Symone has revealed a former habit she had while filming That’s So Raven, her hit Disney series that ended in 2007.
“When I had my own show, I used to tan three or four times a week in a tanning bed to get darker,” she says in a new OWN documentary, Light Girls. “I did.”
The sequel to Dark Girls, this new documentary highlights light-skinned African-American women, who detail personal struggles with their skin color. Director Bill Duke also spoke to R&B singer Chante Moore and actress Essence Atkins, among others.
Raven-Symone said she eventually stopped tanning because it was affecting her show’s production.
“It’s funny, one of the lighting guys came up — I love him to death. I love him. Oh my goodness — he goes, ‘Raven, I need you to stop tanning. You’re getting too dark, and we have to re-light the whole entire show,'” Raven recalls in the documentary. “I was like, ‘Sorry. I was just trying to be pretty.'”
Light Girls premieres Monday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.
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