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SHE WAS KNOWN by many names, including the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl” and the “Creole Goddess”, but singer, actress and dance celebrity Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906. Her mother, Carrie McDonald, was a washerwoman. The facts about her exact ethnicity are unknown, as she was adopted in 1886 by two former slaves, themselves of African American and Native American ancestry.
MYSTERIOUS ANCESTRY
The man believed to be Baker’s father, Eddie Carson, was a vaudeville drummer. His true identity has been the subject of some debate. Baker’s foster son, Jean-Claude, claimed in his biography, Josephine: The Hungry Heart, that she was fathered, not by Carson, but by an unidentified white man — possibly someone who lived within the German household in which Baker’s mother worked around the time she became pregnant.
LEMON JUICE BEAUTY
Baker had light brown skin, which came in handy when she moved to New York during the Harlem Renaissance, beginning her career by joining the popular all-black Broadway revue, Shuffle Along, in 1921. In order to appeal to its white patrons, the showgirls were required to be exclusively light-skinned with European features, and Baker fitted the bill. “The performers were ‘white’ blacks, in accordance with the vogue,” she recalled. During the course of her career she became obsessed with skin lightness — the result of discrimination she’d experienced during her days as a chorus girl. As a result of this fact she considered a pale complexion to be essential to her success. Each morning she would rub her face and body with half a lemon to further lighten her skin.
JOSEPHINE BAKER'S HAIRSTYLE
Baker's hairstyle was the other crucial component within her constructed aesthetic. She wore it short, straightened and smoothed against her skull, with Medusa-like curls framing her face. She applied egg-white to give it its high sheen and stiffness. On October 1925, at her legendary debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, every jaw in the audience dropped at the sight of it.
“Her hairstyle had been done like a Greek boy’s,” recalled Harper’s Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland, “and pressed into her flat black curls were white silk butterflies. She had the chic of Gay Paree.”
Baker went on to become the first black star to create her own cosmetics line — for a hair pomade called Bakerfix, which came in a toothpaste-style tube adorned with dancer’s image. These were early moves within the culture of female African American celebrities extending their brands into hair and beauty businesses — something which is now fully evolved with today's black stars such as Rihanna and Beyonce.
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Theatre performer and dance celebrity Josephine Baker as a child. The facts about her parents background and ethnicity are not fully known.
*JOSEPHINE BAKER FACTS ACCORDING TO GOOGLE SEARCH
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The number of people worldwide who Google the phrase, “lemon juice skin lightening” each month.
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The number of eople worldwide who Google Josephine Baker's name each month.
*All figures for “Josephine Baker Facts According to Google Search”, supplied by Google. Stats include global totals for laptop and desktop computers and mobile devices.