LAGOS — Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Omawumi Megbele, simply known as Omawumi, has reminisced about being body-shamed as a child because of her physical appearance and how she was able to overcome them.
Speaking via her Instagram page on Monday, the Bottom Belle crooner said that she was called several nicknames because of her protruding forehead.
“I was one of those kids they used to call ‘Hammer Headed’, ‘OGORstina’ and ‘Ekpengbe forehead’.
“In fact, one of my aunts used to call me ‘Beauty’. She said she was using it to prophesy into my life that I will be pretty someday.”
The Warri-born singer mentioned that she suffered low self-esteem issues and had to depend on make-up at a point in her life due to the unfriendly names she was called.
“Well there was a time I allowed it to 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,” she disclosed.
The singer, however, revealed that she has since found her confidence and has grown to love herself despite her imperfections.
She wrote, “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 cellulitis 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 okay!
“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!”
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