THE JOURNEY SO FAR (part 1)

Growing up in a family of seven including mum and dad (although we are now eight thanks to our latest trio who I absolutely adore), and having everything given to me on a platter of gold with diamond all over (hehe), the world was a perfect place to live in.

Coming from a family with generation of beauty queens and royalty off course, I was always told I had the beauty of my aunty who was a former Miss Nigeria, the fashion sense of my wonderful Mother, the best designer in the whole world to me. I was further told I had the brains and power of my Father and my Grand-dad who were both Engineers and Doctors respectively and are counted as part of the most influential men in Rivers state, a legendary voice like that of my Grand-uncle Rex Lawson or maybe the poise and elegance of Grand-ma who was royalty in Ibadan, it goes on and on.

For all my Pink Diamonds (ladies) ever dreamt of you perfect KEN (Barbie’s boyfriend)?Rolling around in a nice convertible with the wind in your hair and then coming back home to a beautiful castle?......
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! I had that too. Until when I found out even Barbie and Ken broke up. Damn! these 'people' t were my last hope. Now as i open my eyes and hope i open those of every girl reading this, I have realised and want to share this realisation....... there is no such thing as forever and ever and ever. Oh well, moving on , so I still have all my heritage of beauty and power right? WRONG!!! It didn't and still doesn't mean jack in the real world. Just like a house without a solid foundation, it became clear to me that in this world, I cannot depend on anyone OR anything and even my own body can fail me and stop me achieving my long life goal.


Throughout University and College I realized that if I didn't sit down and study hard, dads' brain would not automatically get into my head for me to achieve good grades. It also dawned on me that name dropping can never take you anywhere in the world, except maybe grant you access to see or mingle with people who have worked so hard and thats it. I wasn’t brought up that way anyway so that was and has never been my thing.I also don’t even respect people that do that. I find it quite fickle minded and I would rather blow the little trumpet of my own achievements and if any one does not like it ,well the Diamond Diva doesn’t care…hehe

Apart from schooling, I also have a passion for fashion and trying to break into the industry big time, so when I would go for auditions and casting with more than 20 people saying no, what’s worse is that the people saying no are not are not even as pretty as you and they say things along the lines of "Honey you are a beautiful girl but just not right for this agency, we shall put you in our books for the future" and you know they are just saying a big ass NO!! Plus we are never going to call you, Or I need to loose some weight then you will get so depressed. In light of this, I Thank God for E! THS (TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORIES)...that constantly teaches and gives me hope that the above scenario happens to everyone and that I just need to keep working hard and one day I’ll make it big.

So who do I turn to, where do I go from here?….in next my blog I’ll let you know the steps I took ,from making a good degree at University to how I finally set a name for myself and got in the papers and graced the cover of a magazine ,my TV interviews all in less than 7 months ,the heartbreak and my one true confession of the things I had to do and was asked to do, to get those deals and last but not least, the betrayal I faced from my someone I called my friend who nearly ruined everything for me…....stay tuned....

MISS DIAMOND>

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