{"id":229626,"date":"2016-07-10T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229626"},"modified":"2016-07-10T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T11:03:19","slug":"i-dont-care-what-people-think-about-me-jaden-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229626","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t care what people think about me &#8211; Jaden Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaden Smith doesn\u2019t care what people think of him and his confidence to wear outrageous outfits comes from believing in himself.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old actor is often seen in public wearing skirts and nail polish and has the confidence to carry off some of his more outrageous ensembles because of his own belief in himself.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou just have to believe in yourself, you know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I\u2019m going to keep not caring. I\u2019m going to keep doing the same things \u2013 I\u2019m going to keep doing more things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Karate Kid\u2019 star has his own clothing and lifestyle brand, MSFTSrep and has huge ambitions for the range.<\/p>\n<p>He told Nylon magazine: [I want to] inspire and change the way people think about clothing and about life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaden \u2013 who is the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith \u2013 can next be seen in Netflix TV show \u2018The Get Down\u2019, which chronicles the birth of hip-hop in 1970s New York.<\/p>\n<p>And filming the show made him realise how much easier it is to learn about new things now thanks to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThey were more dedicated to learning and I feel like that is not something that we necessarily have right now. People would go to record stores and actually buy the records they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would go to bookstores and read up on Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Gandhi, and all these different people. And now we just have the internet to do everything for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaden hopes that his fame can help to remove the stigma around gender fluidity.<\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cSo, you know, in five years when a kid goes to school wearing a skirt, he won\u2019t get beat up and kids won\u2019t get mad at him. I\u2019m taking the brunt of it so that later on, my kids and the next generations of kids will all think that certain things are normal that weren\u2019t expected before my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: capitalfm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaden Smith doesn\u2019t care what people think of him and his confidence to wear outrageous outfits comes from believing in himself. The 17-year-old actor is often seen in public wearing skirts and nail polish and has the confidence to carry off some of his more outrageous ensembles because of his own belief in himself. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":229627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}