I Used To Burn My Skin As A Child

South African media personality and actress, Pearl Thusi opens up about along she’s had to overcome the social mental battle of colourism and depression, the actress who noted that at the age of 11 she tried to burn herself so that she could have darker skin.

The Soweto Queen, who said she grew around dark-skinned people so she felt almost like an outcast growing pushing her to want to do something about it, but she’s completely at a different place now and is even bothered about the Colourism insults anymore.

Pearl Thusi who during the interview with podcaster MacG, slammed suggestions that she had her success easy, and due to her skin colour. She feels such believe is rude and disrespectful of all her hard work. The media personality who averred that there were days she had to sleep in the parking lot because she was too tired to drive home.

She said;

“I used to burn my skin when I was a child for people to stop teasing (me). I didn’t grow up around other light-skinned people.

“These people think this ‘light-skinned’ thing started with them. I have had this conversation since I was 11. People think this conversation is new. I had believed I had worked so hard that I had passed that conversation about the colour of my skin.”

On her success story, Pearl Thusi added;

“You can’t say all I have is purely because of something I can’t change and expect me to accept that. You can’t! That’s rude! I am going to defend my work. I worked really hard. I have slept in parking lots because I was too tired to drive home.”

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