A Nigerian lady and CEO of Epaz Clothings, Adetutu OJ, has shared her amazing story of living with tribal marks and learning to cope with them.
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The young lady shared how she had been ashamed while growing up because of her marks. She continued by saying that she had lowered her standards of the kind of man she wanted because she felt no man would want her.
We have her Instagram post below
Gone are these things; there had been cases where I wanted to commit suicide due to inhibition in educational pursuits, due to my tribal marks. When many people say they find my tribal marks repulsive. Even in my school days, they called me all sorts of names because of the severe tribal marks my dad put on my face. I had my first boyfriend at age 21. (My baby’s father) all because I considered myself to be the ugliest girl in the world. Chai!!!
One of the greatest things that has happened to me was getting educated and my ability to communicate in fluent English; otherwise, it would have been disastrous for me—so disastrous! Some people, when they see me, assume I am uneducated and start saying they pity me. I shake my head sadly then. Some years ago, all I felt was resentment towards my parents for giving my siblings and me such scars in the first place. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been embarrassed by them. At one time, I had to lower the standard of the kind of husband I would have loved to marry, but I have a daughter now and care less about settling down. Fuckboys available, Abeg??? I won’t let these deep horizontal marks on my face hinder me from getting anything I want. I’m so over it now because I have no time for a pity party for myself again. I love how you all encourage me to be bolder and love myself just the way I am, tribal marks or no tribal marks. Impacting lives and making money are my new hobbies now.
