Cindy Bruna
Bruna in 2013, photo by FashionStock/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Saint-Raphaël, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Date of Birth: 27 September, 1994
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*Congolese (mother)
Cindy Bruna is a French fashion model. She is known as the first black model to be accorded a Calvin Klein exclusive.
Her father, Stefano Bruna, was Italian, from Piedmont. Her mother, Eléonore, is Congolese, from Brazzaville. Her parents met while her father lived in the Congo, and she grew up in France. A picture of Cindy with her father can be seen here. A picture of Cindy with her mother can be seen here.
Regarding her African heritage and how it is perceived in the modelling industry, Cindy has stated:
It’s not easy for black girls—everybody knows that. There are usually only three of us in a show at most. I never felt like I had to fight anything because of the color of my skin—it’s my skin, and I can’t change its color. But it’s also not easy because they only have a couple of spots for girls who are black. And then you wonder if they picked you because you are black. But I think it’s changing, and I’m happy to represent that.
One of Cindy’s grandmothers is named Eugénie.
Sources: http://www.inoubliablemodelarmy.com
Information about, and picture of, Cindy’s family – http://www.gala.fr
Cindy with her mother:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ29ZGIg19e/
She kinda looks like tina turner:
http://www.vallartatribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TinaIkeyoung.jpg
Her parents are Stefano Bruna and Eléonore. She has a grandmother named Eugénie.
Information and picture of Cindy’s family:
http://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/cindy_bruna_dans_l_intimite_d_un_top_367150
It’s funny how “first blacks” are always biracial people. Please stop …
I first heard about her a couple of years ago being called a black model. One look at her and I knew she was mixed.
Now.. Maybe if she was 3/4 black+ I’d call her black because she’s end up looking mostly “black” and will be seen as such.. But this girl looks obviously mixed that it’s astonishing they called her black without mentioning her white side.
That’s because that’s how they see her. Also as you see, It’s how she ID’s herself
Quote(Maybe if she was 3/4 black+ I’d call her black because she’s end up looking mostly “black” and will be seen as such.. )
What if one or both of the a girls parents had Caucasoid phenotypes, and that was pass down to her, yet she still was only 25% white. Would you still call the girl black? I’m asking, because I know plenty of people you would swear were FGM’s, but are not. They just inherited traits from down the line. I’m just saying, because I see this all the time, and the girls always say they are black
Well she ain’t american and her mother is straight from Africa (not East/North Africa) so it’s very unlikely that she has that much if any caucasoid blood. Besides wouldn’t that esentially he mgm people in a nutshell? I guess that’s where it gets conflicting. But you are what you look like. Look at everyone judging Halsey whatever her name was..
But it’s weird. Its not just American biracials, even some european biracials seem to identify as black.
Not everyone is racist and sees mixed people as black. Most people see mixed people as mixed. Americans don’t because they’re idiotic. That’s why they still have so many issues with race.
@Multi
Quote(Americans don’t because they’re idiotic. That’s why they still have so many issues with race.)
Come on now stop trying to make it look like only America has this problem. Anywhere they have so-called civilization they have this racial problem. To speak on that, racists hate mixed people, far more than they hate full black, so even if you’re seen as mixed, they going to hate you
That’s because the “first black” statement doesn’t refer only to ethnicity, but social and economic conditions as well.
It has to do with anti-miscegenation laws and stuff like the Jim Crow laws, especially the later adopted edict of the one drop rule. Anyone in the US with any African heritage for a long time was considered to be black in the eyes of the law. Many people still hold onto those old ideas of racial makeup.
But first off, she calls herself black. She has no American ancestry, so she was never exposed to the one drop rule, which by the way was rarely if ever really enforced. all a person had to do in the past,was moved to another state , and presto change-o they’re white. Also she’s not the first one to make that comment. If you ever listen to some of these biracial models, they don’t say it’s hard being a biracial model, they say it’s hard being a black model.
I think it’s because of the whole stigma about being mixed. Being mixed is shoved down American throats as being superior yet many mixed people seem to talk about conflicting identity and all that mixed race tears.
So I guess mixed people just pick one side and go from there as seen in the case of a lot of mulatto children..
@alexgxo
Quote(So I guess mixed people just pick one side and go from there as seen in the case of a lot of mulatto children.. )
the way things are going, in the next few generations, every black person in this country genetically will be a mulatto. The funny thing is, that a lot of people around the world, look at all African Americans as mulattoes now.
well you should noted, that it’s not just black people that call those biracial people the “first blacks” . plus the “first blacks” anything are in most cases not biracial people but mgm’s
She identify as black because she knows that black women will worship her as a mixed woman, because she knows that the media prefer a miex woman over a black woman to represent black people.
Identifies* mixed*
Well you might be right about the media. However all the worshiping in the world from black women want get her anymore shows than industry wants her to have, like she said, only three get in at a time . So just maybe despite what you believe, she has a mind of her own,sees herself as a black woman.
And because of her Italian heritage she has become a model, not because she is black.
It’s most likely a combination of both bloodlines, that got her notice
LOL, she does not even look black, she looks Hispanic.
Lol I saw her side profile and looked at more pics of her. Save for her skin tone and I assume natural hair texture most of her features lean towards the European side.