Omawumi, a Nigerian musician, has spoken out about how growing up and being fat shamed damaged her life and self-esteem.
Omawumi described herself as one of the “Hammer headed, ogorstina, and Egbegbe forehead” kids in an Instagram post.
One of her aunts, on the other hand, referred to her as beauty, claiming that she had used the moniker to predict that she would be attractive someday.
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Omawumi claims that she used to let other people’s words drive her since she couldn’t leave the house without wearing a lot of cosmetics and doing everything she could to mask her defects because she felt flawed.
Omawumi went on to say that things have changed now that she’s madly in love with her defects and shortcomings.
In her words: I was one of those kids they used to call ‘Hammer Headed’, ‘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 pretty someday… Well there was a time I allowed it get to me, there was a time that I couldn’t step out without being heavily decked up in makeup. I would do all manners 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 map 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!
