Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Gemina Jamil. I hope you're well.

I'm alright. I just, I'm, I'm slightly annoying week.

Not bad at all. In fact, wonderful. But just I'm, I'm, I'm frustrated. So, on Sunday,

the Emmys were on and I decided to get all dressed up with literally nowhere to go because

the Emmys were happening virtually. So I sat in my pajamas and thought, I'll just do full

hair and makeup and I'll do it with everyone on Instagram. So I posted a picture of me straight

out the shower, wet hair, no makeup, just letting everyone know it's going to happen. And I was

inundated with, with lovely comments about my, you know, my skin being clear. And it's not something

I prioritise about myself. I sometimes have clear skin. I often don't really depends on my

digestive system for my hormones as with many people in the world. But there were so many comments

of like girls kind of doing a, you know, just like a funny kind of cry face of why is her skin so

clear? I wish my skin looked like that that I was kind of like I should probably say something.

So to one of the girls who mentioned how, how clear my skin was, I just said basically my skin

is currently clear because privilege people have more access to good quality nutrition and also

our lives are significantly less stressful than the lives of those with less privilege. I also get

to sleep more because of this. All these things keep my hormones in balance and I'm also able to

address food intolerances easily. And then I also said, well, B, I believe that trans rights are

human rights and C, I exfoliate twice a week, right? So I really just meant nothing condescending

or bad with this comment. I only met, and I was also met with just so much love and so much,

you know, just so many sweet DMs. And I think it was important to say because we don't talk about

this, especially when it comes to the beauty industry. We don't talk about the fact that the people

we are supposed to live up to have all this help. I mean, aside from just the amount of airbrushing

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