Some months ago, the blogosphere was bubbling with the news report that Nollywood actress-cum-singer, Thelma O’Khaz bleached her skin. This rumour came after her ‘before and after’ picture hit the internet, which showed a sharp contrast in her skin colour.
She was
lambasted for that and many thought she might have used a bleaching skin to
change her skin colour from chocolate to ‘white’.
Explaining
what happened in the said viral picture, Thelma said that, “I take a lot of
pictures and play with skin tone on my pictures. A producer got in touch with
me in December (2013) and asked me to take pictures and brighten them up for a
poster of a film, which I did and gave him a copy.
“I then
displayed the others on Facebook and Twitter, the next thing I got was some jobless
bloggers, saying rubbish about me bleaching. Well, they can continue because I
will not stop taking pictures with different colour tones as it is what I like.
Who knows, I may decide to make it pink or green.”
Continuing,
Thelma pointed out that, “first, I was just laughing, but when I found out that
over 40 blogs carried it, I was just shocked and upset. I am human. That was
when I went to Twitter to say ‘my nose doesn’t fit my new white skin, haters
should send Dr. 90210’s number, money ‘no be’ problem."
Speaking
further on the controversial picture, Thelma told First Weekly that “[I
took the] dark one at Debin Studio in Aguda (Surulere, Lagos) and I told them
to make it brown like a chocolate colour.”
When
asked if she would still do the same stunt, Thelma answered, “I will still do
it when I feel like. These pictures are studio photographs and we play a lot with
skin tones and I will still do more.”
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