Once again, the bar on ‘feminism’ has been raised further by 35year
old singer, Alicia Keys while speaking to Elle UK magazine for its make-up free
edition asserting that the concept of feminism was "about owning your own
power, embracing your womanhood".
Earlier in the year after launching her #NoMakeUp movement she
was quoted to have said "Whoever isn't a feminist is crazy."
"I am a feminist because it's about ' the advocacy of
women's rights on the ground of political, social and economic equality' as
reported.
She explained in an interview with BBC 1Xtra that it was time for women to stop having to make other
people happy and look after themselves instead.
She says she doesn't feel tied to expectations about her
appearance any more but insists she isn't on a "crusade".
"It took me forever to get this skin," she said.
"I know how it feels to have a face full of bumps and
pimples. I lived through that in the public eye.
"But when I first got pregnant with my son Egypt six
years ago I started to eliminate dairy from my diet and drank a lot more water,
which made a huge difference to my skin.
"Some have called this a crusade. "Well, I died laughing at that. I used to feel the
pressure to appear as the music industry expected, but I don't now."
Alicia Keys is a mother to two children, stepmother to her
husband Swizz Beatz's three children and says family life can be complex.
"I have a very blended and interesting perspective of
what family life looks like," she says. "There is no one way, no perfect way. Each way is
different with beautiful scope to be something good. That is life.
"Our eldest son is 16 and it's really cool to be in his
life as an adult figure who is not his mum, and he gives me a prelude to what
is coming with my children."
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