I was embarrassed over my mixed race family as a kid…now I don’t give a s**t, says Rochelle Humes
thesun.co.ukROCHELLE Humes has admitted she felt “embarrassed” growing up as a mixed-race child in a white household. As a teen, the This Morning star felt she came with a “disclaimer”, forcing her to explain that her Jamaican-born biological father was not in her life and that she lived with her mum, stepdad and their daughter.
Rochelle, 33, had dreamed of one day having the ‘picture perfect’ family, but says becoming a mother helped her realise appearances do not matter.
She has slammed the stereotype of a traditional family — and now “doesn’t give a s**t” what other people think. Rochelle, who grew up with her mum Roz Wiseman, stepdad and sister Emily, 29, in Barking, East London, said: “My mum and dad split when I was less than one, and then she moved on and had my sister with another guy, who was lovely.
But me and my sister looked completely different, she is white and I am half black. “And we’re all brainwashed to think things should look a certain way.
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