Myleene Klass has shared a powerful post with her followers, opening up about the racist abuse she suffered as a child. The musician and presenter, 42, shared an adorable photo of herself as a child accompanied by a message to those who still use casual racism in conversation around her.
She wrote: ‘C***k, Slit eye,Number 69, Fried rice, Mongrel, Ping pong, S**t. All Thai brides are s**ts. Banana.‘I’m trying so hard to explain the complexities of racism to my children.
How it happens. How whilst I don’t understand the struggles a black person living in America might be experiencing, how I do understand and know my own experience of being a mixed race Filipino girl growing up in Norfolk. ‘I had those words thrown at me.