{"id":981370,"date":"2022-02-08T11:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/omawumi-reveals-how-body-shaming-affected-her-life\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:47:26","slug":"omawumi-reveals-how-body-shaming-affected-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/omawumi-reveals-how-body-shaming-affected-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Omawumi Reveals How Body Shaming Affected Her Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-696419  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/omawumi-1.jpg\" alt=\"omawumi\" width=\"545\" height=\"317\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Omawumi, a Nigerian musician, has spoken out about how growing up and being body shamed damaged her life and self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>The singer described herself as one of the \u201cHammer headed, ogorstina, and Egbegbe forehead\u201d kids in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>One of her aunts, on the other hand, referred to her as beauty, claiming that she had used the name to predict that she would be attractive someday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong>I Cut My Hair In Honor Of Those Who Died During #EndSARS Protests \u2013 Singer Omawumi<\/p>\n<p>Omawumi claims that she used to let other people\u2019s words drive her since she couldn\u2019t leave the house without wearing a lot of cosmetics and doing everything she could to mask her defects because she felt flawed.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed, according to her, who is now madly in love with her defects and shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p>See post below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZrs4ZErzoW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omawumi, a Nigerian musician, has spoken out about how growing up and being body shamed damaged her life and self-esteem. The singer described herself as one of the \u201cHammer headed, ogorstina, and Egbegbe forehead\u201d kids in an Instagram post. One of her aunts, on the other hand, referred to her as beauty, claiming that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2553,1466,696,4521,51,4522],"class_list":{"0":"post-981370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nollywood","8":"tag-affected","9":"tag-body","10":"tag-life","11":"tag-omawumi","12":"tag-reveals","13":"tag-shaming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}