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The brandsDifference Makers campaignis meant to empower women to make a change in the world.
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And these three ladies are doing just that.
Characters were few and far between that represented diversity in a positive light.
They were so often the pregnant teens, the gangbangers, the gangbangers girlfriends.
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Rodriguez grew up in a family surrounded by accomplished women, but yet that reality wasnt reflected on TV.
I know what that did to my psyche as a young girl.
It limited me, she said.
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I felt a certain way about myself when I looked in the mirror.
South African actress and activist Jessica Nkosi also had doubts of her natural beauty when she was younger.
I was always teased as having a deep voice and a white nose, she said.
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Id attempt to camouflage my voice to make it squeakier.
But she found a place of comfort and acceptance in the theater.
I started doing drama where I had to project my voice, and my voice would hit the back.
And Im like, Youve been teasing me my entire life about this but the joke is on you.
you oughta accept yourself the way you are knowing that you were made perfectly to fulfill your purpose.
The lack of diversity in Hollywood doesn’t just have an adverse effect on the viewers.
My name is Erendira Ibarra, and Im ethnically ambiguous.
So Im either too white to be Mexican or not white enough," she said.
“I dont feel like I have to represent that sexy bombshell all the time.
And there is good news.
Currently, there are strides being made to make Hollywood more diverse.
