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Fashion Watch’s Carol Odero opens up about being called ‘ugly’
I got trolled for having acne - Odero.
Carol Odero
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But her journey to love of self has not been an easy one. This is because at some point she was trolled for having acne and was even labelled ugly.
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“My flawless skin broke out at 29… I sunk money into skincare and lifestyle. I got trolled for having acne. Threads confident in my ugly. That was actually the word used. Ugly. Other women were effortlessly beautiful so why was I working so hard to earn mine dammit! It would seem I was destined to be on the wrong side of beauty my entire life,” she disclosed on Couture Magazine.
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Embracing herself
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Fortunately, a time came when she ‘slayed the dragon’ by just embracing herself just as she was. “After years of being told I was too black, that my hair was too something, my arms too toned, my body a little too strong and agile looking, my muchness simply too much, a switch flipped in my head. I hate this cliché but it is ever so perfect. I found my beauty as dramatic as it was. I embraced me,” the Editor-In-Chief Couture Africa revealed.
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