Mel B has discussed how her family experienced racism in Britain when she was a baby and as she grew up as a child in Leeds.
The legendary 45-year-old Spice Girls star is the daughter of English mum Andrea Brown and dad Martin – who was born in the Caribbean island of Nevis and who moved to the UK as a boy.
Mel was born in the 1970s and recalls a difficult upbringing as society shunned her mixed race family and subjected her father to racist actions.
Speaking candidly about her upbringing, Mel said her mum would ask her father to carry Mel when they were out together as a family – in order to prevent him being racially attacked.
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