Part of the fun of being a woman is being able to change your hair, your makeup or the way you dress simply because you feel like it.

But doing so as a celebrity means bracing yourself for criticisms and critiques of every kind – so it's not exactly a shocker that rumors began to swirl when actress Meagan Good recently starting appearing in public looking a lot lighter skin tone than she normally does. 

Actress Meagan Good turned to Instagram yesterday to debunk the rumors behind her new look and the bleaching rumors. Good wrote:

"I can't believe I'm actually going to address this nonsense lol ... Buuuut I have young women who follow me - so I think its important to give clarity because I believe that black and every other color is beautiful .. This is for those who believe that I would actually bleach my face and entire body to try to be lighter skin smh .... Umm No Ma'am. First off? I LOVE my complexion- no matter what side of the spectrum I'm at at any particular time... My skin looks various different ways for various reasons - from lighting to makeup ..style of photography or something as simple as weather and what coast on working on at any given time... This is my complexion-the one I was born with... I tend to get lighter and darker depending upon how much sun I do or don't get. I looove the sun I'm a Cali gal, but as I've gotten older and especially more recently, since I've gotten into my 30s, I tend not to be in the sun as much because it ages your skin terribly. Simply put -i'm opting to preserve my skin by protecting it and only making exceptions for vacations."