Popular Nollywood actress, Chika Ike has taken to her Instagram page to reminisce on how her skinny physique earned her derogatory names during her school days and what she did to gain weight. She disclosed that while growing up, she was never confident of her body and was always called names by her friends.
She listed some of the names to include 'lepa', Agric Chicken' and 'thin girl' among other. She further disclosed that in a bid to gain weight, she resorted to eating all manners of food, all in futility.
Her post read;
"I never liked my body growing up and was constantly bullied about it. I was so skinny and was the tallest in my class. I never looked forward to morning assembly because I'll have to stand at the back of the class or class presentations to talk about “your best friend “ because I’ll be described as the thin girl. I can remember eating all sorts to things to gain weight but nothing worked, I really craved to have some flesh on me. I was called all sorts of names like Lepa, thin girl and Agric chicken because I was so skinny and tall.
So I started modeling as soon as I graduated from secondary school because modeling agents thought I had "the look”. Today the reverse is the case, I'm on all sorts of diet programs and exercising every other day to keep the weight I’ve always wanted in check, I feel bad after licking ice cream or eating anything with high-calorie content because ill have to suffer in the gym.
Growing up slim wasn't cool now its cool. The truth is you have to constantly love you, you can't be cool to everyone, the world will always have a standard of what you should be, who you should be and how you should live your life."
