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'She Knows She's Not Getting Dark-Skinned Babies': Candiace Dillard's Husband Calls Out Critics Who Slammed Reality Star for Saying She Fears Having Light-Skinned Children

Candiace Dillard Bassett is in the hot seat after a resurfaced clip circulating online features "The Real Housewives of Potomac" star, who is married to Chris Bassett, a white man, admitting that she fears having light-skinned children. Bassett has now weighed in on the social media chatter, but it's unclear if he's made matters worse.

The 37-year-old appeared on the "Don't Call Me White Girl" podcast with host Mona Love back in January and admitted to fearing that her children would be light-skinned during an in-depth conversation about colorism.

“Real Housewives of Potomac” couple Candiace Dillard and husband Chris Bassett (Photo: @therealcandiace/Instagram)

Love is light-skinned, and noted that “RHOP” was deemed "the light-skinned girl show" when it premiered in 2016.

(4:25)"'Real Housewives of Potomac,' yo, when Potomac first came out, they had deemed it like 'the light-skinned girl show' right, and it was so like frustrating for me because it was like, I like the show for so many other reasons than that. They all happen to be light-skinned," said Love. "I'm not even going to go there because I don't know if you know, but light-skinned women cannot speak about things like that."

Love expressed that colorism is a widespread issue across many different communities, not just the Black community. However, she understands her place as a light-skinned woman and that it's not right to invalidate the feelings of women with darker skin.

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Love went on to note that problematic things have been said about her skin as well, revealing that she has been called "white girl, Michelin man, white bobble-head, Casper white, white girl, fat white girl, Betty Sue, fat mama cheeseburger, and snow monkey" as recent as a few months ago.

Later in the conversation, Dillard's interracial marriage became a topic of discussion, to which the “RHOP” star revealed her fear of not having brown-skinned babies while married to a white man.

Dillard started off the conversation by encouraging Love to expand her horizons in terms of the type of men she dates. "Could be white, could be Indian," Dillard said, while admitting that Chris Bassett was one of the first white men she dated.

"One thing I will say, I do have a fear of having light-skinned children. I want my kids to be brown, but they're probably not gonna be brown, and I'm like becoming okay with it. I want my kids to be brown, but if they're not, it's fine," Dillard said behind a sarcastic grin.

"I didn't think about it when I met Chris, though," the reality star added. “Whatever happens happens. But I didn’t think about when I was falling in love and like, ‘Oh this is my husband. Oh, wait. I’m gonna have these swi

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