PHOTOSAyesha Curry Responds After Fans Question Her Jamaican Roots
Ayesha Curry is setting the record straight! On Saturday, July 6, the cookbook author used Instagram to clap back at fans who have doubted her Jamaican roots.
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Ayesha, 30, posted a picture from Jamaican vacation to her account. In the photo, she sat on the ground and wore a purple crop top and shorts set.
“@ginajamaica2007 looking for Errol in the motherland,” she wrote in the caption, referring to her Jamaican alter-ego character Gina.
The mom of three ended her caption by slipping into patois, the Jamaican dialect. “A weh yuh deh?!” she wrote. “Mi soon forward. #JamaicanMeCurry.”
Fans were excited to see the Family Food Fight star share this rare glimpse into her heritage and they flocked to her comments section with praise. “Yessssssss goodie!!!!!” one person wrote.
“Yes mi gal embrace yuh roots and culture,” someone else told her.
This isn’t the first time Ayesha, who is of Jamaican heritage on her mom’s side, has opened up about her cultural background. In May, the Toronto native admitted to feeling caught between two worlds once she moved to the United States because of a change in race and ethnicity classifications.
“Everyone was from a place other than Canada and that’s how you identified yourself, not black or white. I identified as Jamaican because that’s where my mom came from,” she explained to Working Mother. “In the States I’m simply Black.” Toronto is home to the largest population of Jamaican Canadians.
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