GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF winner Nadiya Hussain said life for her would have been so much easier if she wasn't brown, but she has now learned to embrace both her 'Britishness' and her 'Bangladeshiness'.
Nadiya, 36, admitted on BBC Three documentary Being British Bangladeshi that there have been times when "she wanted to bleach the brown out of her skin".
The TV chef and baker born in Luton to Bangladeshi parents, said on the show: "I'm a firm believer that as a Bangladeshi and a British, I will take the good bits from this bit, and the good bits from that bit.
"I believe we live happily in that grey area. I'm proud to say that I mix up my "Britishness" and my "Bangledeshiness" in cookbooks that people actually really like."
She added: "There are times when I've wanted to bleach the brown out of me - because life would have been so much easier if I wasn't brown, if I wasn't Bangladeshi, if I could just be like everybody else.
"But I come with all of those layers that I do represent and I understand the importance of that now."
Nadiya, who won Great British Bake Off in 2015, said she has become more comfortable talking about racism in the years since winning the show.
Nadiya, who now lives in London with her husband and three children, said last year that she's experienced more racism in the last five years working on TV than ever before in her life.
She took to Instagram and said: "Just because you don’t experience racism, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, it does!
"I have experienced more racism in 5 years working in the TV/Food industry than any other time of my life and it’s time to call it out!"
Damian Talbot
Nirmala Sitharaman speaks at the India-UK Investor Roundtable in London last Wednesday (9). On the panel were India’s department of economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth and Kotak Mahindra Bank founder Uday Kotak
Sitharaman with Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
Sitharaman with Jonathan Reynolds 
Sitharaman with Reynolds, Alastair King, India’s high commissioner Vikram Doraiswami and other delegates