Meagan Good Gets Emotional Recounting Fallout Over Her Drastic Skin Changes
Meagan Good On Skin Changes, False Bleaching Rumors: “That Was Probably The Most Shame I Had Felt In A Long Time”
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Last year, there were whispers of concern as well as some confusion when it appeared that actress Meagan Good‘s complexion changed. The beauty, though never necessarily dark in skin tone, looked noticeably lighter than ever before. At a certain point, she even began to look pale. Those whispers turned into not-so-quiet questions of whether or not she bleached her skin, to which the star finally had to speak up and say that wasn’t the case. Instead, she shared with someone online that she’d actually been given products by an unlicensed aesthetician to correct some skin issues, and instead, they altered her skin.
Despite setting the record straight, it was an experience that the 39-year-old admitted in a new interview was “traumatic” and that she’s still trying to move past.
“I think that was probably the most shame I had felt in a long time,” she said during a chat with The Same Room, which is a video series produced by the people at The Shaderoom focusing on faith and culture.
She recounted, again, how she went to the wannabe aesthetician who convinced her to try products to help her treat some sun damage.
“A few months later, I am like five shades lighter than I actually am,” she said. “It was a really traumatic experience because I really trusted the person and I kept asking her through the process, is this what’s supposed to happen? And she’s like, ‘Oh it’ll lift. It will come back.'”
However, she realized it wasn’t coming back though, which sent the actress on an emotional roller coaster when she thought about young girls looking at her and thinking she may have changed her brown skin because she didn’t love it.
“It was super embarrassing and super painful, especially in the climate we’re in as Black women,” she said. “I love my skin. I love myself and overconfidently when I look in the mirror, I like what I see. And to feel like someone stole that from me and to feel like I was misled and then now there’s commentary on it and people are thinking that I don’t love myself, that’s something I can get through. But when I’m thinking about these young girls, these young brown-skinned girls who are thinking that I’ve changed myself and what kind of ideas it’s putting in their head, that just broke my heart.”
Good, who broke into tears after talking about the impact the unintentional mistake would have on younger girls, is still working through the pain that experience brought her. She did have to watch her skin transform in a way that was out of her control, and had to watch it happen in the public eye. However, her skin seems to be returning to its original brown tone, and she’s glad that she was made stronger despite the embarrassment.
Check out more from her conversation with The Same Room about it, as well as images of Good’s skin before and after all this happened by hitting the flip.
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Good is pictured here in 2003, with her bronzed skin shining at singer Usher’s birthday party.
“It’s a process,” she said of getting over the situation regarding her skin and what the public thought was going on. “But I will say this, as I’m working through it the blessing in it is, sometimes we don’t know why God allows certain things to happen.”
Meagan Good during Usher’s 25th Birthday Bash “Flashback 1978” – Arrivals at Pearl in West Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage)
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She is pictured here in October of 2019, around the time when questions about what was going on with her skin first started.
“I think for me, I was in a place where I couldn’t really defend myself because it’s like going out and saying, ‘Well it’s not that!’ and you still look crazy,” she said of wanting to address the rumors. “So I was in a place where I couldn’t really defend myself.”
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 21: Meagan Good attends Screen Gems Hosts The After Party For “Black And Blue” at The Skylark on October 21, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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Months before the whispers began, her skin, despite some light spots presumably just from makeup, looked fine.
“So for the first time in my life instead of actually defending myself, I just had to sit back and let God and trust Him,” she said. “And know that even in this, even as I sit here and I’m crying, I’m made stronger, because somebody else is going through this or somebody else was thinking of doing something, or whatever it is.”
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 08: Actress Meagan Good attends the screening for “A La Carte” at Harmony Gold Theater on June 08, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
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In November of 2011, her skin tone continued to appear lighter, including during an appearance on To Tell the Truth.
TO TELL THE TRUTH – “513 (Jeannie Mai, Craig Robinson, Bobby Moynihan, Meagan Good)” – TV host Jeannie Mai, comedian and actor Craig Robinson, comedian and actor Bobby Moynihan, and actress Meagan Good make up the celebrity panel on “To Tell the Truth,” airing THURSDAY, JUNE 18 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT), on ABC. (TV-PG, D) This week’s action-packed panel of heroes and imposters feature a shark wrangler, Black Widow’s stunt double, a Big Foot hunter, a beloved taco critic and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee. (Christopher Willard via Getty Images) MEAGAN GOOD
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The star is pictured here in 2012, way before her eyebrow transplant and any misplaced concerns that she might have been bleaching her skin.
“I think every story, the benefit is, no matter what you’ve been through, is your experience can really help somebody else,” she said of her ordeal. “Just by being transparent about it and allowing God to walk you through it.”
HOLLYWOOD, CA – AUGUST 29: Actress / Director Meagan Good attends the music video shoot for Dijon Talton new single “Wild Out” at the Empire Nightclub on August 29, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
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In September of 2019, before the rumors began, her complexion started to look very different due to the products she was recommended by the unlicensed aesthetician.
“You’re now giving someone else the license to walk through it too,” she said of being open about what happened to her. “I will say that even though I’m a sensitive kitty kat and I cry a lot, I do feel a lot stronger.”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 21: Meagan Good attends the 2019 Urbanworld Film Festival on September 21, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mychal Watts/Getty Images) on September 21, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Mychal Watts/Getty Images)
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Pictured here in December of 2019, things didn’t look so dramatic. Perhaps the darker hair and reducing the shine of products or makeup on her face helped to offset the changes to her skin tone. She definitely looks more confident in this photo than in earlier images concerning her altered complexion.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 10: Megan Good arrives at the 51st NAACP Image Awards FYC Screening Series Presents a Special Screening of BLACK AND BLUE with Deon Taylor and Tyrese Gibson at The WGA Theater on December 10, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Hidden Empire Film Group)
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Pictured here in 2017 with her favorite goddess locs, Good’s skin looked radiant.
Back in May, she told a person who asked about her possibly bleaching what was really going on.
“I didn’t Queen. A (unbeknownst to me) unlicensed aesthetician gave me a product to correct a sun damage mark on my forehead that messed up my skin,” she replied. “By the grace of God only; I’m about 80% through recovery and regaining my color daily.”
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JANUARY 08: Actress Meagan Good attends the FOX and FX’s 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
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The good news is, as she said, her skin is returning to its former glory. It was still a crappy experience for her though, especially with the things people were saying.
“To be honest it was a beyond painful and traumatic experience because I would never wish that on anybody,” she told that person who questioned her about bleaching. “I’d really appreciate if you wouldn’t continue to spread assumptions and rumors. God Bless You.”
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 09: Meagan Good is seen on September 09, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)
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The beauty is pictured here in her most recent picture, at a Black Lives Matter event in late October of this year.
Despite everything, Good has a good (pun intended) outlook about everything.
“I feel thankful even that I went through something that traumatic, because again I can use it for God’s glory and to build the kingdom and to say to someone now, I’ve been through that. I’ve actually been through that,” she said in The Same Room chat.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 28: Meagan Good speaks during the BLD PWR and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles final march to the polls on October 28, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)
