TORONTO — Actress and singer Naya Rivera came under fire Tuesday after she said only “white people” have regular showers.
“White people shower a lot more than ethnics,” the 28-year-old star said during an appearance on The View.
“I feel like showering more than once a day, or every day, is such a white people thing.”
After being criticized on social media for her comments, Rivera responded with a single tweet:
On The View, the Glee star revealed that her husband Ryan Dorsey showers a lot.
“Like two, three times a day. I’m like, ‘What are you doing?'”
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Rivera told the co-hosts she only has a full shower roughly once every three days.
“You bird bath,” she explained. “Everything important gets clean but you don’t need a whole dunking.”
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Experts would likely back Rivera up.
“As long as people wash their hands often enough and pay attention to the area of the body below the belt, showering or bathing every other day would do no harm,” virology professor John Oxford of Queen Mary’s School of Medicine told The Times, according to the Daily Mail.
“Even twice a week would not be a problem.”
Rivera is best known for playing Santana Lopez on Glee. She attempted to launch a music career with the 2013 single “Sorry” and won ALMA Awards in 2011 and 2012 as well as a People’s Choice Award in 2014.
She married Dorsey last July in a private ceremony in Mexico.
Rivera’s comments sparked debate on Global News’ Facebook page and on social media, where many people shared interesting reactions.
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