Jada Pinkett Smith doesn’t “worry about being liked”.
Jada Pinkett Smith
The 49-year-old actress has insisted she doesn’t care what people think of her, and doesn’t work hard to be “liked” by others because she thinks it makes her less “authentic” to herself.
She said: “I never worry about being liked because it’s a trick bag. That is the space of manipulation. If you need somebody to like you it’ll be too difficult for someone to act from an authentic place.”
And whilst she isn’t too bothered about how others perceive her, she does do her best to make sure she likes herself.
She added during a preview clip for Friday’s (13.11.20) episode of ‘Red Table Talk’: “But here’s the deal, most people have a difficult time liking themselves. It’s almost like begging someone to see your true image through a cracked lens. It’s not going to happen.”
The ‘Girls Trip’ star is used to people forming opinions about her thanks to her life in the public eye, and recently revealed she was “shamed” for allowing her daughter Willow to shave her head.
Jada has been sent hateful messages online at several points in her motherhood journey, including when Willow Smith, now 19, shaved her hair following the release of her hugely successful single, ‘Whip My Hair’, when she was just 10 years old.
Talking to Willow, she said: “I have had my fair share of mom shaming. With Willow, I think the first time I got hardcore criticism, when you first cut your hair, there was a firestorm.”
But Jada - who has Willow, as well as 22-year-old son Jaden, with her husband Will Smith - chose not to listen to the critics, as she knew how “free” the haircut made Willow feel.
She added: “Looking at how my children were being affected, that’s what counts. When people are like, ‘I can’t believe you shaved Willow’s head,’ if they could have seen this child’s expression of freedom, looking at her hair falling to the ground.
“Me as a mum looking at that, experiencing that with her, there’s nothing anyone could say to me to tell me that it was wrong. Not one person, because I was there, I was looking at her, I saw her face, I knew the journey she and I took together to get to that point. It didn’t matter what anybody said.”
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