Celebrity
“I tried to bleach my skin some years ago, because i was insecure about my complexion”- Tiwa Savage reveals
Popular musician, Tiwa Savage has narrated her ordeals when she was young. The mother of one in an interview with Allure magazine revealed that when she was younger, she tried to bleach her skin as a result of her insecurities.
“I actually did try to bleach my skin when I was about, I think 14 or 15 years. Even now I have patches on my back. My mom was cleaning my room and saw the cream that I used to mix with lemons. She wasn’t angry. it was more her disappointment. So I stopped but I was always insecure about being dark”, she said.
She revealed that she has a platform where she is digging more for her responsibility to the younger generation.
“I have a platform and I’m digging more into my responsibility for younger people.”
“When I started my career I wasn’t embracing who I was fully yet because I was just trying to crack into the market,” she says. “My first two singles were very American and it wasn’t very African. But then, as time went on, I just started seeing how powerful my platform was and how mothers would say, ‘My little girl really looks up to you.”
“And I feel like there’s so much pressure now and it’s going to get even worse with social media and there needs to be a balance. There need to be some people that are not too perfect. I know we want to look good. I don’t want to be out there looking jacked up, but I also want to look relatable.”
