In this interview with Sam Anokan, Mama Ajasco star, Moji Oyetayo, talks about how men rally round her because she is plus size and her best compliment in life ever. Hear her:
You are big and beautiful, how do you cope with attention from males?
Let us not be deceived, the African man likes plus size women. They like their women with a little bit of flesh, the curves.
The white man sells a lot of things to us, just like they sell the fact that you have to be fair to be beautiful and slim.
I disagree, an African woman is curvy and I am beautifully curvy. I love it and do I have men all over me? All the time! But of course, I am one among the few disciplined ones.
I know what I want and I stick to it. The fact that people come around me does not mean I have to be available for them.
So far so good I have been able to keep my head under water and restrict myself to the line that I belong to so that one man will not put me in superstory.
What is the best compliment you have gotten based on your shape?
Hello, hi, you are so pretty, you speak so well and I would say thank you. I like your charisma and the way you carry yourself.
My people will say in Yoruba, person no go big pass e no fit carry himself. And then some people think that when you are big you don’t have sense and I’m thinking, is fat working the brains?
You hear stuff like, you are so intelligent and I’m like excuse you, where is the brain located and where is the fat located? It doesn’t work. Seriously, people think that way.
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