Controversial musician and socialite Deborah Vanessa Owusu-Bonsu, popularly known as Sister Derby is in the news today after Tru News Report sighted a video on Twitter where she was asked if she would take one million dollars to work for a skin bleaching company as an ambassador.
She said, “I don’t think I’ll do it. Because I’ve turned down such creams. It was not 1 million, but some of them I didn’t even ask for the price, so that means I won’t do it.“
She went on to say, “… the thing is, uh, it’s deep like skin deep okay. So I’m also not in the right position to tell people not to [bleach] and I said this because it is skin deep.“
Derby, 38, also recounted a similar situation in a 2016 interview with the BBC, when she made up a thought about how a skin bleacher might react to her comments, and it manifested days ago.
She said: “2015 or 2016, I think 2016, I went to the BBC for an interview and I don’t know how this conversation came up, but I said to the woman interviewing me that I feel like because it’s skin deep, someone will say to me that, eh, because you’re fair, you don’t want me to also bleach. Do you know that I just made that up in my head.
“Recently! Someone said to me, I told the person that, ‘oh, it’s like you are spoiling your color. Stop using those creams and things. You are getting patchy.’ and the person said, ‘no, if I don’t do it, I won’t be nice.’ And I’m like, ‘oh, I’m sure the way you are looking, your natural color is nice. It’s very nice.’
“‘Eh, you Sister Derby, you want to be the only fair one because you’re already fair.’ So guess what? I had said something that is like a theory or something that I had made up and it [came back to me].”
Side Effects of Using Skin Bleaching Cream
Most skin bleaching creams may contain hydroquinone and topical steroids in alarmingly high concentrations. Together, these two substances inhibit melanin production in the epidermis.
Melanin is the pigment responsible for the colour of the epidermis. In concentrated concentrations and over time, these preparations can cause permanent skin discoloration, typically grey, blue, or purple spots. This is a consequence of the mercury found in the majority of skin bleaching products. Mercury is a known carcinogen as well.
A temporary repair could result in irreparable damage.
Using these products, particularly those from unknown sources, can result in rashes, acne, skin thinning, and scarring.
Some products may not even contain an ingredient list, which is cause for concern.
With that being said, we tip our hats off to Sister Derby for answering the question the way we want to hear it.
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