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Grace Byers (photo cred: Instagram) Today, author and Empire actress Grace Byers broke down her struggles on Instagram of being a biracial woman, including feeling the need to claim her white or Black side more. Byers, who is Caymanian and American said she made herself small to not make other people feel uncomfortable. She began her post saying, "I am a Biracial woman; a proud Afro-Caribbean Woman." Byers continued, "While the world accosted me to interpret my mixed heritage for the purpose of comfort-labeling, I acquiesced. Feeling required to constantly defend my Blackness, while clearly acknowledging that the world did not receive me as white, was exhausting." Byers also said that she felt displaced. The 35-year-old said she allowed other people to define her. She said, "To please others became second-nature as my instinct was to always protect others -  and their feelings - at all costs." View this post on ...

Author and former  Empire actress, Grace Byers, doesn't want the scars on her shoulder to be covered up or edited. The 34-year-old posted an Instagram photo of herself wearing a blue toga dress with small keloids on her shoulder. Byers  reason for not wanting her keloids removed in photos is simple: They are a reminder. She said, "they're real. they're mine. i earned them. [sic]  And they will always be there to remind me of that period in my life when my shoulder was dislocating every month, and that I made it all the way through." Then she asked her followers to share the scars they embraced. Some of the answers included chemo port and cesarean section scars, stretch marks, and surgical scars. View this post on Instagram keloid scars from shoulder surgery. never want them covered, color-corrected or edited out for any reason. they’re real. they’re mine. i earned them. and they will always be there to...