Media personality Kamene Goro has once again opened up about her struggle with accepting her body, this time revealing the moment she reached her tipping point.
The former Ebru TV presenter has been on an empowerment campaign with Double Dee’s Kenya, a lingerie store for plus size women. The campaign, dubbed “Be You”, seeks to encourage big women to celebrate their bodies.
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Kamene, who has been sharing a series of snaps from a lingerie photo shoot on Instagram, opened up about how society frowned on her for being big on Monday.
“I’ve never been small, I was put on diets from as early as the age of 6, not because I was unhealthy but because Society frowned upon me being bigger than the rest, School was a whole other battlefield, straight up to my A levels,” she recounted.
She added: “See I wasn’t bothered with how I looked, what bothered me was how everybody else including my family was bothered by it.
I realized the problem was not me, I had no problem with my body, I was fighting my body because everybody else was fighting it.”
“And you could see this struggle manifest in how my body was, how my face looked, and how tough and hard my spirit had become, I was perpetually at war…”
At the age of 18, Kamene said “F**k it.”
“And there and then at the age of 18, I said Fuck it! I love my softness! I accepted my body and it started accepting me, everything started falling into place, mind, body, soul. When I accepted myself and loved it, I became the best version of me from the manifestation of beauty, to the strength in my spirit and the joy, love and light that is and always will be my M.O.”
While delivering her testimony, Kamene also shared another lingerie picture which she says she didn’t have the balls to post on Instagram before.
She said, “My point being, acceptance is the first step. Accept and love you as you are first! And everything else will fall in place. You can never fight yourself and be successful. I would know.”
