Kim Fields was brown on Facts of Life. Then when she did Living Single, she was light complected.

Now, she is brown again.

I wonder what she was using back then

Probably a hydroquinone cream. She looks like one of those people with skin that doesn't take much to lighten.
Kim Coles played Sinclair, you've got the Kims mixed up.

Yeah, I used to wonder about her complexion change too.

I never really paid attention. But there is clearly a change.

Ummm I am super lost here facts of life did she play the role of "tootie" and in living single was she "Sinclair" can someone let me know if I'm right cause I swear those where to different people, if I'm wrong let the know the roles so I can put my mind at rest

She played "Regine" on living single

She got light all over. I remember watching her on living single when she wuold wear those halter tops. I couldn't believe how evenly she lightened

ummm i am super lost here facts of life did she play the role of "tootie" and in living single was she "Sinclair" can someone let me know if i'm right cause i swear those where to different people, if im wrong let the know the roles so i can put my mind at rest

Yes, you are mistaken.
Kim Fields played Regine on the show Living Single.
Kim Coles played Sinclair, you've got the two Kims mixed up.

She's always been light, she was never dark brown.

http://www.drduru.com/Kim/RememberButterworth.jpg

http://talkinstuff.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/facts_of_life.jpg

http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_bv/kim-fields-tootie-150a050707.jpg

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/50739549.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=4996399091E83186F1B70055F76538C0C6E7E4E2CE924510

http://ymib.com/files/ymib/june-08-ymib-kim-fields2.jpg

Looks the same to me!

Every time a "black" woman has lighter skin, she always has to have bleached, right? WRONG. Plenty women of African decent (including those STRAIGHT FROM AFRICA) have naturally yellow-ish toned/lighter skin. Also think about makeup and lighting, if skin tones vary slightly in photos/on TV.

http://a.getbackimages.com/uri/w514_h800_cfalse_K0513172047/kim-fields-on-the-facts-of-life-/image/4/0/6/8/4068607.jpg


http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/541e904534b7031f_landing

http://b.getbackimages.com/uri/w514_h800_cfalse_K0513172241/kim-fields-2007/image/4/0/6/8/4068608.jpg

She's been darker too

http://harryallen.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kim-fields506.jpg

http://ymib.com/files/ymib/june-08-ymib-kim-fields1.jpg

http://ymib.com/files/ymib/june-08-ymib-kim-fields3.jpg

I think her case is tanning and not tanning.. instead of bleaching if that makes sense?

Maybe. I feel like she always had so much potential to be GORGEOUS but she never really seemed like the type to be super into her looks to give her that boost!

I always thought she was more "cute"

Yeah exactly! But maybe some long hair extensions and a little weight loss could have taken her to the "beautiful" side.

She's hawt in that afro picture! I think that's her look. Lol!

She's always been light, she was never dark brown.

http://www.drduru.com/Kim/RememberButterworth.jpg

http://talkinstuff.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/facts_of_life.jpg

http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_bv/kim-fields-tootie-150a050707.jpg

http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/50739549.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=4996399091E83186F1B70055F76538C0C6E7E4E2CE924510

http://ymib.com/files/ymib/june-08-ymib-kim-fields2.jpg

Looks the same to me!

Every time a "black" woman has lighter skin, she always has to have bleached, right? WRONG. Plenty women of African decent (including those STRAIGHT FROM AFRICA) have naturally yellow-ish toned/lighter skin. Also think about makeup and lighting, if skin tones vary slightly in photos/on TV.


Well being that this is a skin lightening forum, and that there are so many people of color bleaching its not that far of a reach to suspect others of doing it too. Bleaching is a multibillion dollar industry, for it to be that profitable it has to have a lot of people doing it

I mean a lot of black celebs end up getting lighter. The more money they make the lighter they get whether it be through makeup, bleaching, peeling etc.

In some of her pics she looks brown, then others she looks very light to me.

Like I said, I have NEVER seen a picture of her where she looks "DARK SKINNED" by our definition of a dark skinned black person. She just looks like a medium to light brown from what I have seen in every picture. Tanning/sun/lighting/makeup all come into play here, but I highly doubt she's a bleacher.

Are there any sites where I can see actual photos of people who have bleached beyond their G-d given color?

I've seen melasma, sun damage & permatan, acne marks, hyperpigmentation etc. reversed (giving the illusion of lightening) but I'd like to see examples of actual color changes.

Like I said, I have NEVER seen a picture of her where she looks "DARK SKINNED" by our definition of a dark skinned black person. She just looks like a medium to light brown from what I have seen in every picture. Tanning/sun/lighting/makeup all come into play here, but I highly doubt she's a bleacher.

Who ever said she was darkskin? I said she was brown. Just because a person bleaches doesn't mean that their previous color had to be darkskin. Manypeople of all shades are bleaching, even the lighter complected ones are trying to get even lighter.

In some of her pics she looks brown to me, and during living single, she looked several shades lighter than when she was on facts of life. No she was never a darkskin woman to begin with

Are there any sites where I can see actual photos of people who have bleached beyond their G-d given color?

I've seen melasma, sun damage & permatan, acne marks, hyperpigmentation etc. reversed (giving the illusion of lightening) but I'd like to see examples of actual color changes.

Lol You still looking for those before and afters huh?
I honestly don't think your going to get any and the ones who do put them up get their photo's get scrutinized to death. Sooner or later a picture will be seen.

lol You still looking for those before and afters huh?
I honestly don't think your going to get any and the ones who do put them up get their photo's get scrutinized to death. Sooner or later a picture will be seen.

:D Hey, hope springs eternal?

I think it would help. I get the privacy issues but OTOH everything is so anecdotal and like "my mother's second cousin's shoemaker used this and he's a ghost now!" The problem is that we don't know what color this person was under his/her clothes. He could've been a sunburnt ghost all along.

Or we have tons of celeb pics (which are individually great for reference & just fun to post) but overall they're 50 million different shades of suntan, bronzer, makeup, photoshopped, flashbulb etc.

About Kim, Rihanna, Latoya, Oprah, Patti Labelle, etc. it's tricky. You see them now and then someone retrieves a photo from when they had to wait out in the sun for the bus and stuff and goes "Aha!, Caught her!"

2nd thought, Kim F. isn't as tricky because even when her head is browner, her lighter décolletage gives it away as sun & makeup. So in the 'Regine' and other phases she just has a more even tone.

Latoya J. is a true mystery to me. It actually seems like she's a bit darker & more caramely now?

If you look at these pictures, you can see that she has the same complexion as her mother and sister. She has never been very dark. In the time when she began on TV, they were making black actresses darker which could explain why she seemed darker on Facts of Life.

http://cdn.wzakcleveland.com/files/2010/10/kim-fields-3-way.jpg