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It was a little over a year ago when Kanye West’s wife and soon to be mother of two, Kim Kardashian-West, was posing for PAPER Magazine with an internet breaking nude spread. Now, a year later his ex-girlfriend and feminist Amber Rose is standing strong in her newest spread for the New York City-based independent magazine.
Covering the ‘Fandemonium’ issue of the magazine, the 34-year-old model and actress is coming off her How To Be a Bad Bitch memoir and to celebrate that, she embodies the looks of feminist icons Susan B Anthony, Pussy Riot, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes and Rosie The Riveter.
Inside the magazine, Rose says that her marriage to rapper Wiz Khalifa is what kicked off her feminist journey.
“I would look on [Wiz’s] Instagram and he would have pictures of all these women all over him… and then I would post a picture of me and my son. And people would be like, ‘Does your son know that his mother’s a whore?’”
“People are like, ‘Wiz is out fucking mad bad bitches and you’re at home crying over him because he’s the best thing that fucking ever happened to you and now you’re just a fat, bald-headed single mother and no one will ever love you.’ So yeah, I guess months of seeing shit like that, I was just like, ‘I can’t live like this. There’s something wrong.'”
Amber also recalls her first time being called a “slut” following a party where she played “Seven Minutes in Heaven” for the first time.
“That young, I didn’t know what [that] meant,” Rose pauses a second. “It just didn’t register. But he’s like, ‘No, no, I’m telling you, get down on your knees. I’ll show you something.’…And then he just opens the door, right?…And I look over at him and he has his penis in my face, I’m on my knees — and still, girl, I swear to God, I swear on my son’s life, it still didn’t register to me why they were all gasping.”
“I was so young. I fell into a depression. Everyone hated me. I was the school slut.”
Amber Rose also spoke on her powerful “Slut Walk” movement.
“Like, all of us as women, let’s just stick together and look out for each other. I was really glad that my Slut Walk was extremely diverse. There were all types of women from all walks of life there… That would be the main thing for me… really just try to take the racism out of feminism for our generation.”
Read more of her story by clicking here.
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