Popular singer Omawumi has taken to her Twitter page, to narrate how she was body-shamed and how it affected her as a kid.
She wrote “I was one of those kids the used to call ‘hammerhead’ , ‘OGORstina’ and ‘Ekpengbe forehead’… infact one of my aunt’s used to call me beauty. She said she was using it to prophecy into my life that I will be beautiful one day
… well there was a time I allowed it to get to me, there was a time I couldn’t step out without being heavily decked up in makeup. I would do all manner of things to hide my flaws because I felt imperfect.
Now the only thing that has changed is that I’m madly in love with my imperfect me. With my ekpengbe forehead, with my knock knees, with my cellulites and stretch marks like nap of Africa. I’m in love with my skin and everything within… and guess what, I can still decide to change or hide a flaw, because that too is ok! What I won’t do is allow anybody’s perception of me direct the decisions I make for myself. I am beautiful… you are beautiful too!”
