Following the success of movies like "Ray" and Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (in both of which she plays Jamie Foxx's wife), Kerry Washington's net worth these days comes mostly from her successful Shonda Rhimes ABC show "Scandal" - but now, she's surrounded by controversy in regards of a skin lightening magazine cover.
One of the most prominent black actresses right now, the beautiful Washington has made it big in Hollywood over the past few years and has seen Kerry Washington's net worth on the rise ever since, but is the actress ashamed of her skin color as the new cover seems to suggest?
According to The New York Post, inStyle Magazine's March cover will feature the beautiful actress who plays Olivia Pope on the ABC hit show. Though Kerry Washington's net worth is among the highest for any black actress, she still takes it to social media to show her fans what's happening with her life and career - but things exploded in her Instagram earlier this week, when she showed a preview of the magazine cover.
As Hollywood Life reports, the actress was excited to show her fans the most recent cover she was featured in, but she saw a wave of criticism as they said she looked unrecognizable due to heavy Photoshopping, particularly when it came to her skin tone, as she seems to have gone through a "whitening" process for the shoot, something that has been deemed as wildly racist by fans and news sites.
Will this amount of controversy hurt Kerry Washington's net worth?
"We are super fans of Kerry Washington here at InStyle..." the magazine said in a statement. "We have heard from those who have spoken out about our newsstand cover photograph, concerned that Kerry's skin tone was lightened. While we did not digitally lighten Kerry's skin tone, our cover lighting has likely contributed to this concern. We understand that this has resulted in disappointment and hurt... We are committed to ensuring that this experience has a positive influence on the ways in which we present all women going forward."
On her part, Washington took to her Twitter to say that the magazine had managed the controversy beautiful, and that it was a subject that needed to be spoken about.
Since things were handled quickly and well (after all, her "Scandal" character Olivia Pope IS a fixer!), it would seem that her income will not suffer because of this issue - and that's actually pretty great, since Kerry Washington's net worth is $8 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, as the actress makes $80 thousand per episode of the show!
