Eartha Kitt’s Biracial Daughter Kitt Shapiro Is Tired Of People Questioning Her Race

Kit Shapiro is the only child of the late great singer and actress Eartha Kitt, who passed away in 2008 at the age of 81. Eartha Kitt, of course, had a legendary career in entertainment that spanned more than six decades and was the first black woman to play Catwoman. her and the iconic 1960s Batman series and she is immortalized in time by her iconic Christmas song Santa Baby, which has been streamed nearly 200 million times on Spotify. Eartha Kitt was groundbreaking to say the least, but even with all her success in Hollywood, Eartha Kitt is considered her greatest achievement being a mother, she and her

daughter

Kit were incredibly close and just a few months ago their relationship took center stage when a post by Kit's Tick-Tock went massively viral when she felt forced to defend her identity.

Here's why the photo you see takes a Look, that's Eartha and her biological

daughter

Kit, but because of the different skin tones throughout the children's lives,

people

have wondered if they were really related or No. Here are some of the, I think, insensitive and hurtful comments Kit received after that Tick Tock post she mentioned. she was Eartha's daughter some

people

said I'm confused wasn't Earth a black child oh my god I was shot are you white biological daughter question mark I can't be the only one with this question in the past kit says she has typically Decided not to address these types of comments with a response, but after a lifetime of what she calls pain and scrutiny, she'd already had it this summer, it was finally her time to speak up, so let's address the obvious.

There are a lot of you who ask if I'm really my mother's biological son, which is hurtful and insulting, especially because you know there are a lot of people out there who don't look like we think they should look, we have this default idea of ​​how multiracial uh a human being should appear. I am my mother's biological son. I look like my mother to people who want and are willing to see beyond the blonde hair and light skin. What can I say? Genetics is a peculiar thing. Please welcome. kit Shapiro to the champion, you know yourself.

I was scrolling through social media and all of a sudden I saw Kit Shapiro was going viral and I think I was like, I bet I know what that is, and I clicked and saw you in that post. I didn't know that in the Memoirs you wrote you say that there are people who insist that I have had plastic surgery to look more Caucasian and beyond white. I mean, these people were digging deep, it's incredible. I mean, people hide behind us, we all know that. We've all been victims of some form of trolling or online nastiness and people will just assume that since you don't, as I mentioned in the tick tock, watch how they think you should watch, then it's not possible.

I know who you say you are now my mother only had one son and then this is what she got. I'm sorry and she really loved the fact that I was this stray dog, she said she would tell me either you break all the rules or you filled all the quotas, she said they are a walking United Nations and I really think you know she was proud, she was proud to be the mother of someone who couldn't easily identify because she herself had been so stereotyped and pigeonholed. because of her skin color, obviously, um, I'm from the other extreme, sometimes I get criticized because I'm not black enough and I can't help the way I was born, I mean, like you said, you're your mother and Ella's only child. it's great.

I had the pleasure of meeting your mom when she was on the local news in Chicago. Everything she saw on television was real. I mean, she was very authentic to the core. When did you start to feel like good people? When was the first time you heard someone say that your mom, well, you have to realize that when I was born, my mom was already very famous, yeah, and people are more impressed by fame and worried about the

race

, so you know, they were more impressed because you know Eartha Kitt. had walked into the room and then they were thinking, you know, a woman of color had walked into the room, so there were a lot of things that weren't said, I mean, you know you were accepted at a different level left when your parents are a famous person.

So I didn't really hear about that, my mother talked often, you know, she always talked about the fact that you know how beautiful she was, of course, she was my mother, let's remember that and I'm her only daughter. and how do you know how wonderful it is that you know this mixed

race

and what mixed race people are like, you know it's more interesting, no offense to everyone who isn't, but I think we all look at, there's one thing I think we should We would all be able to take a DNA test from birth because we would all find out how much more confused, oh boy, when was the first time you remember eating well?

It wasn't really until social media became a thing so it's after my mom passed away um and I had someone um on uh must have been on Facebook who or was a response to a Blog I have a Blog um and was a response to it's not possible that you are her biological son she obviously lied to You your whole life and you were clearly adopted, to which my response would be: When do you think a black woman could have adopted a white baby? Firstly, okay, how famous she was, they weren't exactly doing that back then, not in 1961. certainly not, um and secondly, I mean my dad was a little white pie, you know, Irish, German , Irish, so here's my dad, this happens and I think what I wanted to say and what I ended up posting and this was the The first time I spoke publicly about it and I reposted this person, not because I really wanted the people would say, "Oh, don't worry, you know you should pat me on the back, but to actually notice this conversation happening, you know a lot." I know if it happens to someone blatantly or it happens when they walk away behind their back, yeah, I said, listen, my son is mixed race, he has light skin, he has curly hair and I, he's been on the planet with me for three years. . but of course I have come across situations where people say oh yeah and I prepared for it when he was born with full revelation the first thing I said was God please let his hair be curly because he didn't want to do it. , do you know if?

Your mom was ever worried about that, well I don't think my mom worried that much. I think she understood that she would think about it and that she would be questioned. You know, I mean, you know, yeah, when someone would answer the door. They would see her with me and someone didn't know who she was, they thought she was the babysitter or that's what she really was, then she ran into it, yeah, I never experienced that as a kid, I never realized what was going on, I should say, but It was happening. but it was definitely happening almost 14 years after Shapiro's legendary Earth Children's Pass Kit pays tribute to his beloved mother in a beautiful way, you won't want to miss this foreign piece, welcome back today we've been talking to . people about how they have overcome labels to live authentically in the world with us is Kit Shapiro, daughter of legendary entertainer Eartha Kitt and those were some exclusive never before seen photos from Kit and Eartha's family album that the boy wanted to share with such a fan first of all, thank you for that, what an honor, we have some amazing photos together.

I was with her a lot, we traveled together, my best friend everywhere, yeah, I mean, I worked for her as she was growing up and before that, when she was a kid. I traveled there because my mother felt that traveling was the most incredible education to see the world and how the world really lived and how other people would really exist. You talk in your Memoir about how your mother, who was also multiracial, had such tragedy in her past and what she overcame was remarkable, you said that being illegitimate and mixed race, my mother was treated like an outcast by almost everyone around her, below Through all the fame and success, she was still that southern cotton picker who had grown up poor, hungry, abused and rejected, yes, but she passed away a legend and lived most of her life.

She said she took all the manure that had been thrown at her and used it as fertilizer. Wow, and I think you know it. I think she was really born a Survivor. Yes, and she was meant to persevere, and no matter how hard her childhood was, she was proud to be her, and I told her that sometimes she talked about her childhood, you know, with a lot of pain and tears. You even know right before she died, um, but I would say just let it go, get over it and she was like why would I let it go, that's what made me who I am, that's the basis of what I am. it is this. you know how to talk about the things that come to you you have a story in your childhood book when you were 12 years old you traveled with your mother to South Africa and while you were there they asked her to leave a theme park because it was for white people obviously it was only apartheid in South Africa at the time, but how did you handle that?

So the story, you'll have to get the book and read it, yes, but the story is very deep because it was really one of the first times I really realized it. that my mother and I looked different like I just assumed that yes, we were mother and daughter, I looked like her, we looked in the mirror together like mothers and daughters do sometimes and you compared yourself, you know whatever, you know your traits and, but This time, this person in the park didn't know who she was and he didn't realize that she had this diplomatic status when we were in South Africa and he asked her to leave and she just stood there.

I got up and we took my hand and we left the park and I started to tell him to tell him who you are as if he didn't understand, you have to tell him like this, then I was crying a lot, I wanted her to experience. I had been going to the amusement park for the last few days without her um and she said uh-uh Don't be scared. God may not be there when you want him, but he always shows up on time and happens to be the owner of the fun. Park found out that she had been kicked out of the park and he was very, very upset and embarrassed that she had been kicked out of the park, so he said, if there's anything I can do, do you know if you want tickets to the amusement park or whatever? be?

I can do it for you, miss, I'll make it up to you and she said, well, we're actually raising money to build these schools for African children, so a donation would be wonderful and my daughter would love tickets to that. We could go back, he would like to bring some of his friends, so when we went back to the amusement park, my mother brought two children who were what is known as colored children for black children and me and my mother felt that this The image here in South Africa at that moment it made a bigger statement than if I had made a scene at the time that my mother understood that it only takes one person to affect change, maybe in another person, yes, and that the ripple effect is really very powerful.

It just takes longer, you know, you talk about your mother's sense of humor, it's been 14 years since she passed away with colon cancer and you wrote, being able to find laughter in almost every moment was truly a gift that my mother blessed me with. I have an executive. The producer and she always says, you know, a lot of times it's about what we've overcome and resilience, but we also have to make sure that our children know our joy and you knew what she had overcome and how resilient she was, but she wanted you to know. that I was happy. and that she laughed every day and didn't take herself too seriously and encouraged me not to take myself too seriously and she really felt like you know every day there's something to smile about yeah it doesn't matter I want to I mean, it could be very, very tiny. and we're all going through really tragic and difficult times, and some of us more than others, but being able to find a little bit of hope and a little bit of happiness and a smile, and maybe it's your own smile, that helps. you and maybe it will help someone else and my mother was very good at giving me that foundation and I'm really blessed because I love her.