Jennifer Aniston's dark skin tone on magazine cover prompts criticism of InStyle. - janellefiona
on Wednesday featuring Aniston, billed as a “babe eternal,” to promote the magazine's beauty issue.
"Jennifer Aniston has been a beacon of American glamour for the past 25 years, and now she’s stretching her boundaries," the Instagram caption read."In a series of five newsstand covers , she channels iconic beauty looks from the ‘60s and ‘70s." In the image — in which Aniston is wearing a black DKNY bra, a Lalaounis necklace and Elizabeth Locke, John Hardy and Reinstein Ross bracelets — the actress, who discussed with the magazine how it felt to turn 50 earlier this year, looked airbrushed and dark, many social media users were quick to note.Some compared her complexion to that of, a white woman who gained national attention in 2015 for masquerading as black while serving as a local NAACP leader.
"I get that these covers are supposed to be channeling the glamour of yesteryear but that 'glamour' routinely marginalized women of color for white women ," Instagram user Patricia Birch, commented on the InStyle photo."Seeing Jennifer Aniston several shades darker than normal reminds me of that legacy. In 2019, if you want a brown skinned woman on your cover, put a brown-skinned woman on your cover.
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