Ghanaian musician Mzbel has admitted she took to skin bleaching in her teen years because it was the norm in Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, where she grew up.
The Awoso Me hit maker disclosed this on the Class Drive on Class91.3FM on Thursday 23 March when a listener sought her opinion on skin bleaching.
The singer, in response, said: “Skin bleaching is bad,” sharing her experiences with show hosts Prince Benjamin and Natalia Andoh.
“Skin bleaching, I think, is bad. If you don’t do it right, you will end up having cancer. I grew up in Jamestown where, at a certain age, if you don’t bleach your skin you don’t know what’s up. If you don’t have a child so they can have an outdooring on the street, you don’t know what’s up. So by the age of 14, you start buying cream. And they only bleach their face. …It was like a trend and once your face is bright, it’s OK. So I have tried it before, I have tried skin bleaching because then, that was the thing there and all my life I grew up in Jamestown until I was done with high school,” she stated.
According to the controversial musician, she became aware of the dangers associated with the practice when she became famous.
“So, when I finally became a celebrity and I saw the disadvantages of these things, I started preaching against it, but unfortunately when you start bleaching and you stop and you do not use the right product you end up having some damages to your skin. So to be able to keep them away you have to continue always and you don’t want to end up having only a white face, so you have to do the whole body and it becomes like a part of your life,” she added.
With her knowledge of the side effects of skin bleaching, Mzbel noted that she has resorted to preaching against the phenomenon whenever she gets the opportunity to visit Jamestown, where the practice is widespread among the youth.
“So, whenever I have the opportunity to go to Jamestown to do charity work, we talk about teenage pregnancy, safe sex, skin bleaching, and I always use myself as an example. I tell them: ‘The amount of money you will have to use to fix yourself after you get the damages is not a joke,’” Mzbel disclosed.
Source: Classfmonline
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But Mzbel still bleaches....Go watch her awoso me video lol and compare..Girl..u are in no position to preach..when u are also guilty of the saMe crime
Anyway, I like her frankness.She is blunt about everything.. But know you
Mz Bell has spoken some sense, and for the first time I agree with her content, it's really positive. Whether she is a celebrity or not a celebrity is not the issue here. Back there in James Town, the people see her as one, and for as long as she is helping educate the masses she can call herself Mother Theresa, so what?
mY FOOOOOT, WHAT CELEBRITY? you are only an attention seeker. Who care about you, anyway celebrity in what, AS HUSBAND SNATCCHERR, SINGLES Music? WHEN was the lastimine you produce an album? ATTENTION SEEKER
No,as a baby not a teenager.
MZBEL I LOVE THAT. THANKS FOR YOUR ADVISE AND ITS GOOD YOU NOTICED THE MAIN BAD PRACTICE AMONG THE YOUTH IN JAMES TOWN WHEN U WERE PART OF THAT BAD PRACTICE N AT THE END YOU'VE GONE BACK TO YOUR ROUTE TO HELP THEM SEE REALITY IN WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THUMBS UP. ANY WAY I STILL LOVE THAT YOUR SONG ''AWOSO ME''
"when I became a celebrity" hahahhaha I laugh enter ndc headquarters
Did i hear it well that when she became a celebrity? Ghanaians sees anyone whocomes on tv as a celebrity aaa but seriously speaking too she is saying the truth about bleaching i wonder why now some females even take in pills for whitening and toning and i wonder the side effects of those flawless pills in town from makari and other brands, very soon skin cancer is what Ghanaians will be diagnose with whenever they visit the hospital