Halle Berry Says Daughter Nahla 'Is Black'
Posted on Feb 08, 2011 @ 06:40AM
Halle Berry says she considers her three-year-old daughter Nahla, who is at the center of a bitter custody battle with babby daddy Gabriel Aubry, to be black.
"I feel like she's black... I'm black and I'm her mother and I believe in the one-drop theory," Berry tells the March issue of EBONY Magazine.
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The one-drop theory -- or one-drop rule -- held, during segregation, that a person with even one drop of non-white ancestry should be classified as "colored".
Berry has a Caucasian mother and an African American father while Aubry, on the other hand, is French Canadian.
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“I had to decide for myself and that's what she's going to have to decide - how she identifies herself in the world,” Berry tells EBONY.
“And I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That's how I identified myself. But I feel like she's black."
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The 44-year-old also gushed about the wonders of motherhood, decribing it as “probably the most important thing in my life right now."
"Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. That's the most important thing I'm going to do in this life at this point," said the Monster's Ball actress.
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Halle and Gabriel are currently embroiled in a heated custody battle over their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Nahla.
As RadarOnline.com exclusively reported the relationship between the ex-couple has deteriorated so much over the past week that they are no longer even on speaking terms.
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"If Gabriel needs to find out anything about Nahla he goes through the nanny now," a source told RadarOnline.com.
"He and Halle are no longer speaking directly to each other.
"There were still talking, albeit limitedly, up until a week or so ago, but now - nothing."
The source added Gabriel is concerned that Halle will request that all his visits with their daughter be supervised after various reports have claimed that Aubrey used the 'N' word in describing Halle.
One source close to Aubrey strongly denies that.
The March issue of EBONY Magazine will be released nationwide February 8.
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Feb 17, 2012 @ 09:30
Jan 30, 2012 @ 07:00
Give me a break! Halle needs to get in touch with reality. She's bi racial. Her daughter is bi racial. In fact her daughter is less 'black' than she is. I'm so sick of celebrities downplaying that they are part Caucasian. She makes me sick.
Posted Wed, 02/09/2011 - 7:24pm
Halle denies her caucasian roots when it suits her to do so. The Father's background is also important. Halle has set her child up to view the world in racist terms. How myopic. Never thought much of her acting ability.
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 8:47pm
All she is saying is that white people have said that if you have any black blood you are black thats how her white mother raised her! So don't act like you don't know the way of the white man! Deep down inside white people don't like black people.
Posted Fri, 02/18/2011 - 7:53pm
Indeed!! As a parent of a biracial child, I find her actions abhorrent & harmful to Nahla. My son is a proud of his dad's Norwegian roots as he is my Black and Native American roots, as he should because ultimately, he is loved!
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 10:33pm
Hey Radar Online, do you want to pay me to be your story editor?? "babby" daddy?? I've seen so many mistakes with so many of your stories...smh...If you're going to rag on people, can you at least use spell check??
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 8:31pm
I don't think this woman has a grasp on reality. She is half black, her husband is white...wouldn't that make her daughter one quarter black? I don't like her, or her acting and I hope her ex doesn't let her push him around.
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 5:53pm
Thank you. She's either truly delusional or just plain spiteful & hateful and I fear the latter is the case. I don't know who she's been hanging with lately but they need to sit her down, tell her to check her ego & be a good co-parent to Nahla!
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 10:37pm
As beautiful as Halle is she cannot keep a man. She must have a real attitude at home & she acts sooo sweet in front of the camera.
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 3:20pm
I hate to tell Miss Berry this, but her Mother is white, her babies Dad is white so I believe her child has more white genes than black. And Halle never embraces her white side even at the Oscars. She said "Te First female African American to win.
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 3:16pm
somethin2do.......AMEN!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO SICK OF HEARING THAT CRAP TOO! african americans. BS! they aint from africa. their ancestors were. in that case i should be called something like irish american. LMFBO!!!
Posted Tue, 02/08/2011 - 2:23pm