Singer Alicia Keys said she felt frustrated after her four-year-old son, Genesis, denied wearing his rainbow manicure anymore.
Alicia Keys said people should embrace their “masculine and feminine energies” after sharing how her four-year-old son told her that he feels ashamed to wear his rainbow manicure.
According to Insider, the “No One” singer posted a video on Instagram to describe that her son was excited to get his nails painted before but denied after seeing they were rainbow-colored.
“So he tells the lady that he wants rainbow colors on his nails, and she brings all of these colors, and she paints each nail a different color,” Keys said in the video. “And after she painted his nails, he looked at me, he said, ‘Mommy, I don’t want this on my nails.’”
Keys said, her son feels that people would be judgmental of his rainbow-colored nails.
“And I was like, ‘Why? You were so sure. You were good.’ And he was like, ‘People are not going to like it.’ Can you believe this? Four years old. He’s four! And he already understands the concept that someone’s going to judge him because he chose rainbow colors on his nails,” she continued.
The singer told her son that he should not care about what people would say. “You chose it. You liked it. You do it. Who cares what anybody else says?” Keys allegedly told her son, adding that “a lot of guys paint their nails.”
Genesis felt better after Keys explained to him. She posted the video on Instagram and hopes that people will think outside of gender stereotyping to explore “masculine and feminine energies.”
“It gets concerning to me that we can’t just explore these different sides of ourselves,” she said.
“I oftentimes express the masculine energy that’s inside of me. All the time, if that happens, there are the judgments, and there are the stereotypes, and there’s all the energy that comes toward that.”
“And for my boys, you know, similar. If they want to express the feminine energy that’s inside of them, there’s all these judgments and all these rules and stereotypes and vibes,” she continued. “It’s really frustrating to me. I’m actually really, really frustrated about it.”
Keys received an overwhelmingly positive response from her followers.
“This kid. This expression. This parenting. This thinking. THIS is the stuff that will change the world. For the better,” one follower said.
“I loved your feedback to him. So beautiful,” said another.
“He’s a young King and he can explore and express his creativity at any time! We support it as his parents,” wrote Keys’ husband, the music producer Swizz Beatz.
Last April, actress Charlize Theron told the Daily Mail that she starts dressing her three-year-old son as a girl after he told her, “I’m not a boy!”
“I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive,” Theron said at the time. “They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide.”
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