"I this one time, I got a really awful message about her and I looked at her and burst out crying. It breaks my heart."
We chat to Chelsee about the times she's experienced racism in her life and as a parent.
How does going through something like that change the way you raise your own child?
She said, "mummy I've got brown skin" and I'm like "yeah, it's beautiful brown skin Coco."I'm just trying to teach her that she's beautiful as she is. Difference is beautiful, no matter what it is.
I this one time, I got a really awful message about her and I looked at her and burst out crying. It breaks my heart. It makes me feel physically sick. Dealing with comments like that just makes you want to protect your babies even more.
I'm half Jamaican and I'm really proud of my mixed race heritage. In my life there's been a handful of times where I've experienced people being racist towards me. I think when I was a little bit younger it definitely got to me, but as I've grown older, I feel that I'm much more stronger. I know myself, I know that I'm not the one that's in the wrong. But then it's a whole different ball game when you attack my daughter.
It just breaks my heart like that someone can be so disgusting to target a baby girl on her colour…I just think it's awful. You've just got to kind of think these people must be really really sad in their own lives to attack a baby. Sometimes you've just got to kind of pick your head up, don't look at your baby because you'll be in bits again, and just carry on.
I feel that when you feed into the negative comments, it takes away your peace at the same time. It's so hard to do, because trust me, I've had to stop myself so many times, but my advice would definitely be don't even rise to it.
Coco is only three so I think she's a little bit young to be having the racism conversation with. The best place to start as a parent would definitely be to teach your baby to be kind, to love and to treat everybody how you want to be treated.
