My daughter is perfect – but strangers constantly question her skin tone
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While casually scrolling through the comments on a TikTok post featuring my three-month-old baby, Havana, my jaw dropped. ‘That baby don’t even have a little melanin,’ one person wrote. ‘It’s just sad.’. This person that I didn’t even know was commenting on my baby’s skin colour and it felt like being sucker-punched. I couldn’t wrap my head around how anyone could stoop so low as to comment negatively on a child’s appearance — let alone my child.
So I called it out. ‘I really don’t understand comments like this,’ I said in a follow-up video. ‘It’s just really weird that people in this day and age want to sit and comment on someone’s skin colour.’. Unfortunately, comments like these persist for mixed-race children like mine. But it needs to stop.
![[Chyna Mills: I always get this one remark about my baby that leaves me speechless]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233564734-5a62-e1734451030593.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
When Neil and I met in July 2022, we fell for each other fast. Our love story was a whirlwind, and we didn’t waste any time building a life together. Within a month of deciding in November 2022 that we wanted to try for a baby, we found out we were expecting our little girl. We were ecstatic.
My pregnancy was a dream. We went on a babymoon to Bali in March 2023, where Neil surprised me with the most romantic proposal overlooking the iconic rice fields. Havana’s arrival in October last year only added to the magic. She entered this world and filled our hearts with love.
![[Neil Jones, Chyna Mills and baby Havana]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GettyImages-2159977682-5c7e-e1734450686707.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
