14 Celebs With Mysterious Ethnicities [Photos]

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When she’s not thirst trapping, Amber Rose is actually a great lightening rod for taboo topics like slut shaming, photo retouching, and America’s obsession with race.

In the Bill Duke documentary Light Girls, Rose broke down how members of her family didn’t attend her wedding because of their own racial hang-ups. And if you Google, “What is Amber…” your search engine will let you know what’s on people’s minds. It’s safe to Amber is one of 14 celebs with mysterious ethnicity. Hit the jump and see the rest.

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French Montana

In a field that’s often monochromatic, French is a Morroccan-Somali raised in Casablanca. You don’t get too much more diverse than that.

Rita Ora

Don’t let the bleach-blonde locks fool you. If you catch a picture of Rita rocking her natural, brunette hair color, she’s no less attractive. But it also makes her look a bit like Olga Kurylenko or Irina Shayk, which kind of makes sense, because Rita’s from Eastern Europe. She’s Albanian to be exact.

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The Rock

Rock’s pop is black Nova Scotian, and he was also a pretty popular wrestler, and his mother is Samoan wrestling royalty also. That’s quite a mix, and the perfect explanation for why Rock turned out to be wrestling royalty himself.

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Vin Diesel

The Fast & Furious star doesn’t reference his ethnicity much, but the rare occasions when he did yielded the info that he was of English, German, Scottish, Irish, and African-American ancestry.

Ariana Grande

Big Sean’s boo has sometimes been mistaken for a Latina, but she’s actually of Italian heritage. Grande is half Sicilian and half Abruzzese.

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Jhene Aiko

Jhene lists her ancestry as African American, Yaqui, Choctaw, Cherokee, Navajo, German Jewish, and French. We just call her fine.

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Miguel

His 2013 quote that, “Black people are the most judgmental people in the world” were apparently rooted in some familiarity. The San Pedro, California native is the byproduct of a Mexican-American father, and his mother is African-American.

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Kimora Lee

We know St. Louis, Missouri isn’t the most tolerant, diverse area in the country. Lee says growing up as the child of a Korean-Japanese mother and an African-American father didn’t make things easier in that regard.

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Melanie Fiona

Fiona’s beauty from her diverse background, which is equal parts African, Indian, and Portuguese from Toronto by way of Guyana.

Amber Rose

The former Mrs. Wiz Khalifa is Irish, Italian, Cape Verden and Scottish. In related news, she is also 100% gloriously thick.

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Malcolm Gladwell

In his 2005 book Blink, Gladwell explored racial biases in frank terms that also applied to himself. As it happens, Gladwell is of West Indian, Scottish, English, and Jewish ancestry.

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Jesse Williams

Williams holds the distinction of the first guy to be injured in the NBA All-Star Weekend celebrity game. On the serious side, Williams is of Swedish and African-American ancestry, and speaks about black issues in very a frank and sharp manner.

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Jessica Szohr

Former Gossip Girl beauty Jessica Szohr claims Hungarian, and Jessica is of quarter African-American descent.

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Tessanne Chin

While her name doesn’t indicate it from a blind reading, Chin is Jamaican. Her mother is of English and African descent, while her father’s background is Chinese and Cherokee.