Amber Rose rarely shies away from sharing candid moments about her life, especially when it comes to using her personal stories to push her ideas of empowerment for women.
While chatting with MTV about her new self-help book, How To Be A Bad B—h, Rose was asked about the rate of young girls in school being punished for dress code violations and if she thinks it’s sexist. Rose responded with a shocking story about being sexually violated by a young boy when she was in middle school.
“Abso-frickin’-lutely, girl. I was sexually assaulted in the seventh grade. This boy stuck his hand all the way up my skirt. I was sitting on the edge of the stage in the auditorium, and he sat down next to me and put his hand up my skirt… I went to principal, and I told her that I felt extremely violated. I couldn’t believe that he had touched me like that. And she blamed me. She said, ‘You shouldn’t even be wearing a skirt like that.’ Obviously, in the seventh grade, my skirt was not that short — but even if it was, that didn’t give him the right to shove his hand up my skirt,” Rose shared.
Rose then explained how she feels that there is an intersection between sexism and classism that leaves many women unable to dress how they want because they will be mistreated and labeled a slut.
“I grew up in a very poor neighborhood [in South Philadelphia], and went to a very poor school, and she made me feel like I didn’t matter. That’s another thing I talk about in my book — classism. There are Victoria’s Secret models who wear lingerie constantly, and no one calls them a h–. But if an Instagram model posts a picture of her in lingerie because she’s confident and she’s sexy and she’s happy with her body, she’s labeled a h–,” Rose said.
But that’s not all = Rose had to say. Read about how she stopped being a slut-shamer herself, after the cut.
