If you’ve not got the newest issue of TW magazine then you need to pick it up.
Osas Ighodaro looks gorgeous on the cover of the magazine’s December 2014 issue (click here if you missed it)
and inside she opens up candidly about her beauty –
she didn’t always
see it – being Miss Black USA, her relationship with Tinsel co-star Gbenro Ajibade and more.
Read excerpts from her interview below:
On being bullied in school:
As I got older, I suffered low self-esteem. I was picked on when I was
in school by a black girl. Her name is Monique, can’t ever forget her
name. She would always pick on me, ‘You African, you are ugly.’ Ashe
would always make fun of the way my mum plaited my hair. I didn’t feel
pretty as I got older, I wasn’t proud of who I was.
On how she started modeling:
My dad sent me to modeling school and I did that for a year. After I
graduated, I got a postcard in my mail to take part in a pageant and my
dad encouraged me to enter. I said to myself, you can make money for
this [participating in pageants]? I did pageant after pageant and saved
everything I made. I also had a receptionist job every Saturday morning
up till I finished high school.
On how she and Gbenro Ajibade connected:
Tinsel had me in a hotel and I didn’t have a car. Gbenro took me to
different places. He was just nice. He is very nice, kind, loyal and
overprotective of his friends. When my contract [with Tinsel] ended, I
asked myself ‘Are you sure you want to go back?’ Another deal breaker
was that I got into a relationship with Gbenro. My parents were happy
because all I dated in the States were African-American men. But I
didn’t come to Nigeria for that, I came here for six months to work. My
relationship was an unexpected bonus.
You can read up her full interview in TW magazine.
Photo Credit: TW Magazine
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