Mum to the rescue: Tina Knowles hits back at Beyoncé haters over recent allegations she lightened her skin for Renaissance images, accusing them of ‘jealousy, racism, sexism and double standards’

Nov 30 , 2023

Beyoncé recently received criticism online for releasing photos where she looked “white skinned”, but mum Tina Knowles has had enough of the trolling. Photo: @beyonce/Instagram

Tina Knowles took to Instagram to defend her superstar daughter because she’s ‘sick and tired’ of people attacking her online, but admits the Renaissance star will be ‘p****ed at’ her for doing so

Issa Rae and Keke Palmer applauded Knowles for responding, saying Beyoncé ‘deserves to be protected in this way’ after her mum called the haters ‘bozos’ and ‘losers’ for saying she wants to be white

Tina Knowles won’t let anyone break Beyoncé’s soul. On Tuesday, she fiercely came to her daughter’s defence after critics accused the artist of lightening her skin.

Knowles shared clips of the “Break My Soul” and “Alien Superstar” singer on Instagram – starting with an image that featured Bey sporting platinum-blonde hair and decked out in a chrome Versace gown for the theatrical premiere of her Renaissance film last weekend in Los Angeles. She accompanied her video with some of the claims that were made about the Grammy Award winner’s latest appearance.

Beyoncé’s Renaissance concert tour featured numerous show-stopping silver looks – including this one from Indian haute couture designer Gaurav Gupta. Photo: @beyonce/Instagram

The Destiny’s Child costume designer superimposed comments on the Reel that accused the 42-year-old entertainer of looking white instead of Black, insisted that she lightens her skin, or lied about her origins. But Knowles responded to the observations with The Lion King star’s 2019 hit, “Brown Skin Girl”, and a lengthy caption rebutting “the stupid ignorant self-hating racist statements” made about her daughter, reasoning that Bey’s look was all on theme.

“She does a film, called the renaissance, where the whole theme is silver with silver hair, a silver carpet, and suggested silver attire and you bozos decide that she’s trying to be a white woman and is bleaching her skin?” the 69-year-old matriarch wrote. “How sad is it that some of her own people continue the stupid narrative with hate and jealousy. Duh, she wore silver hair to match her silver dress as a fashion statement clown. Alien Superstar duh!”

Beyoncé and mum Tina Knowles, who just defended her daughter on Instagram. Photo: Getty Images

Knowles added that her blood boiled when a woman from TMZ “had the audacity” to reach out to Bey’s hairstylist to ask for a statement about speculation that Beyoncé “wants to be white”.

“[T]his white woman felt so entitled to discuss her blackness,” Knowles wrote. “What’s really most disappointing is that the some Black people – yes, you bozos that [are] on social media. Lying and faking and acting like you’re so ignorant that you don’t understand that Black women have worn platinum hair since the Etta James days. I just went and looked at all the beautiful talented Black celebrities who have worn platinum hair and it has been just about everyone of them at one time or another. Are they all trying to be white?”

Knowles added that she’s “sick and tired of people attacking” her daughter.