💅🏾 BET Over Disney: A Baddie’s Childhood Origin Story

💅🏾 BET Over Disney: A Baddie’s Childhood Origin Story

by Princa Castillo

Some little girls were busy watching Disney Channel every day…

Me? I was curled up on the couch with a plate of food, vibing to BET classics that gave me soul, sass, and sitcom gold. 📺✨

When my cousins begged to watch Disney Channel, I was that one girl like:

“Can we turn it to BET real quick?” 😭💅🏾

Here’s what raised me:

🎤 106 & Park — where I discovered the music, the swag, and the countdowns that mattered

👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏽 The Parkers — Nikki Parker had main character energy before it was trendy

📞 The Game — messy, dramatic, and everything uk

🎤 Moesha — Brandy as a teenage poet, writer, and style icon?? That was it

👠 Girlfriends — showed me friendship, Black womanhood, and grown-girl vibes

👯‍♀️ Sister Sister — the twin glam I never knew I needed

🧃 Family Matters & 🤪 The Bernie Mac Show — comedy and wisdom in every episode

That was my Disney Channel 😭✨

But I won’t lie… I did watch Hannah Montana too! I’ll never forget that one party where my God sisters had a full Hannah Montana theme — purple glitter, microphones, and singalongs to “Best of Both Worlds”. I was livin’ both lives:

🪩 BET by day, 💖 Disney by night.

Because honestly…

✨ I was raised on sisterhood and sass

✨ On sitcoms and sparkles

✨ On soul food and stage lights

I’m a baddie raised on Black Girl Magic and pop princess energy 💅🏾💖