Some months ago, the blogosphere was boiling with the news reports
that Nollywood actress-cum-singer, Thelma O'Khaz bleached her skin. This
rumour came after her supposedly 'before and after' picture hit the
internet, which showed a sharp contrast of her skin colour.
She
was lambasted for that and many thought she may have used a bleaching
skin to change her skin colour from chocolate to 'white'.
In a
chat with Nigeriafilms.com, Thelma explained to us that
she never
bleached her skin as many had insinuated. She stressed that she is
'Naturally a light skinned person and I enjoy my body the way God had
created me,' adding that, 'I didn't bleach [my skin] and I have no
apology for that.'
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, and 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 got 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 Nigeriafilms.com 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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