I used to tan a lot to look pretty: Raven Symone

Actress Raven Symone has revealed she was insecure about her skin colour in the past and resorted to artificial tanning to feel better about herself. The 29-year-old actress said she used to tan her skin three to four times during the filming of her show That’s So Raven, reported People magazine. “When I had my own show, I used to tan three or four times a week in a tanning bed to get darker,” she reveals in a new documentary Light Girls on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

“It’s funny, one of the lighting guys came up  I love him to death  he goes, ‘Raven, I need you to stop tanning. You’re getting too dark and we have to relight the whole entire show’. I was like, ‘Sorry, I was just trying to be pretty!”

The documentary dives deep into the discussion of skin colour, preference, privilege, pain and prejudice and is a follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Dark Girls, and also features interviews with Soledad O’Brien, Diahann Carroll and India Arie.