Leigh-Anne Pinnock says racism has changed her time in Little Mix: 'I feel like I have to work 10 times harder'
"Nine years ago, after joining Little Mix, I had the biggest awakening of my life. When we were filming ‘Wings’, we worked with [choreographer] Frank Gatson. He said to me, ‘You’re the Black girl, you have to work 10 times harder.’ Never in my life had someone told me I would need to work harder because of my race.”
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