Nicki Minaj is defending Jesy Nelson after Leigh-Anne Pinnock allegedly called her out
for Blackfishing during her solo artist debut and Mixers are NOT happy with Nicki’s reaction
— let’s get into it.
Over the weekend, what many Little Mix fans feared might one day happen... ended up coming
to fruition after the girls all seemingly unfollowed Jesy Nelson on Instagram.
It was then that Mixers noticed Leigh-Anne Pinnock go on to like two I-G posts calling
Jesy out for allegedly Blackfishing in her music video for ‘Boyz' and Leigh-Anne even
began following their respective accounts.
But what came as a bigger shock to fans were Leigh-Anne’s alleged leaked DMs where she
supposedly tells a TikToker to do a video about Jesy being, quote, "a black fish”
instead of a TikTok dance to 'Boyz' -- and she also revealed that it was actually Jesy
who blocked them on Instagram, adding that she’s a “horrible person.”
This all went down just before Jesy went live on IG with Nicki Minaj on Monday to share
her side of the story.
However, it was Nicki doing most of the talking regarding Jesy’s allegations of Blackfishing,
and Nicki went hard for Leigh-Anne, though it’s worth noting that she never actually
mentioned her name.
Nicki began by explaining how it didn’t make sense to her that someone could do business
with another person for 10 years, despite them being a horrible person, and only speak
up about it as soon as they stop working together.
“And then as soon as we part ways I start texting people. Telling people to bring sh*t
up negative about you. Immediately that person has to wear a big red clown nose and a pair
of big red f*cking clown boots, cuz you’re a f*cking clown.”
Nicki then tackled the issue of Blackfishing head on stating that there’s a lot of women
in the United States who tan, get bigger lips, or wear wigs and colored contacts like she
herself admittedly likes to do.
She rationalized QUOTE, “As long as you’re not hurting anybody or speaking negatively
about anyone’s race or culture, you should be able to enjoy your body, your makeup, whatever-
however the f*ck you want to.”
In fact, Nicki herself revealed that at times she even puts on darker makeup on her legs
so that they look more toned and slim, and she speculated that Jesy probably opted for
a more tanned look as a way of dealing with fat-shaming.
"Jesy is someone that has been fat-shamed since the beginning of her career and she’s
had to go through that sh*t on TV without anyone defending her."
Nicki also called out Leigh-Anne for not going after other celebs and “asking them to take
off their spray tans and their lips,” and she added that if we were to play by those
rules, then Black girls wouldn’t be able to wear long blonde weaves either.
She said QUOTE, “Please stop, it just screams insecurity, it screams that you’re jealous.
Only jealous people do things like this. And now you just look like a big jealous bozo.”
Nicki then topped it all off with a very graphic request for Leigh-Anne…
“Print those text messages out, bust your *ss open and shove them up your motherf*cking
*ss!..... Stop! If you want a solo career, baby girl, just say that. You can go out and
put out your own music, we’re gonna love you and support you.”
As for Jesy, she shared that it was never her intention to offend people of color with
her music video and that she just wanted to pay homage to that era of music that she grew
up on.
And as it turns out, Jesy claims that she wasn’t even wearing a fake tan in the ‘Boyz’
video, but rather she had just been in Antigua for three weeks prior to shooting it.
“I’m just really lucky as a white girl that when I’m in the sun, I tan so dark.
So many people have said to me before, you know -- Leigh-Anne even said to me in the
group, ‘Are you sure you’re not mixed-race because you go darker than me in the sun and
that’s crazy.’”
In addition, Jesy said part of the reason she wanted to go live was to show that her
hair is naturally curly just like her dad’s, and she also mentioned that Leigh-Anne apparently
never confronted her about Blackfishing until her last days in the band.
“I was in a group with two women of color for nine years and it was never brought up
to me until the last music video that I did with them. When she, like, messaged me and
said, ‘I just wanna make you aware.’”
Most Mixers were not amused by Nicki’s nor Jesy’s handling of this situation, like
this person who tweeted, “Nicki going down a rabbit hole I don't see her coming back
from honestly. How you gonna drag a black girl while defending a white girl blackfishing?”
This other fan chimed in, saying, “jesy laughing, sitting there QUIETLY while nicki
makes absolute fun of leigh-anne and drags her through the mud… i’m fuming, hurt
and in complete disbelief of jesy- just WOW”
Finally this person pointed out the following, “‘it was never brought up until after
i left the group’ ‘she actually messaged me once after we did a music video’ SO WHICH
ONE IS IT JESSICA”
Nicki then went on to double down, only this time making a direct reference to Leigh-Anne
by sharing a story of Leigh’s business partner Gabrielle Nikita where she’s seen arguably
Blackfishing and Leigh not only liked the picture but also left her a positive comment.
And just in case there were any doubts Nicki was talking about Leigh, she also tweeted,
“JeLeigh btchs actin real messy. ~ if you know someone has been suicidal from bullying
in the past, why try to get a bunch of ppl to bully them again about smthng else, on
an even bigger scale? Shame on you— that’s rlly sad.”
Well, it seems that this situation will be going on for a while, and we’ll be sure
to keep you up to date with any new developments.
Now go ahead and click right over here to find out why the girls from Little Mix ended
up calling Jesy’s mom right before she exited the band:
Also let us know in the comments your thoughts on this whole situation…
I’m your host Carly Henderson, come say hi to me on instagram @Carlyhenderson_. bye
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