China Anne McClain

thumb China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). Quotes It really did change [my life]. It gave me this feeling of freedom that I hadn't felt previously. The only feeling I felt that compares to that type of freedom is finding God and building a relationship with him, I never would've cut it when I was younger for a few different reasons. It was a security blanket to me. I was a Black girl with long hair, it was down my back and I always had people commenting on it like, ‘Is all that your hair? It’s so pretty?’ but at some point, I realized that I was hiding behind it for that reason I would have to spend three hours doing my hair afterward. So, it was holding me back, I felt, in a lot of ways, emotionally, spiritually, and just from doing some of the things I wanted to do when I wanted to do them It was just like he was here one day and gone the next and I had to wrap my mind around the fact that I would never see him in this life again. I'm still dealing with that, to be honest. I don't think I'm ever going to not deal with that. But I adore him. I love him; I still do. I always will My family was so supportive of me, and it was a whole year before I actually told the world and my fans that I cut it off I have stories I want to keep to myself. I don't know if I'm going to tell anybody, but I know that he's around I'm proud of the life that he lived and I'm pretty sure that everybody who knew him could say the same thing, but I mostly find myself thinking about his family because they lost something that the rest of us didn't. I was so tied up in working, working, working, and getting ahead. And I was so tied up in that because I really do love acting. I don't like this industry, but I love creating things, creating art "China Anne McClain Unpacks "Black Lightning" End, Loss, and Finding Herself", February 18, 2021 External links nm1942207 Category:Singers from the United States Category:Actresses from Atlanta Category:Living people Category:1998 births Category:Women from the United States Category:Women born in the 1990s