Nollywood actor, Mofe Duncan has recalled how some producers body shamed and blacklisted him because of his weight during the early days of his career.<\/p>\n
Duncan reflected on the body shaming experiences he has faced as an actor while calling out a troll who asserted that he wasn\u2019t fit to be considered as handsome because of his weight.<\/p>\n
He disclosed that he suffered a severe back injury while in the gym trying to lose weight to fit into people\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n
The movie star said the body shaming he suffered in the industry affected him back then.<\/p>\n
He, however, said it doesn\u2019t bother him but he decided to speak up for the sake of others suffering the same fate.<\/p>\n
On his Instagram page, the actor wrote: \u201cSo this guy @iamadeogooluwayimika said I\u2019m not allowed on the most handsome men in Nigeria list because I\u2019m big. Lol!<\/p>\n
\u201cSo comments like these brush off me like a leaf falling from a tree, zero impact. Zero damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a big guy, yes. I\u2019ve been big for the past 10yrs, yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid I have a severe back injury whilst in the gym trying to look how people wanted me to look? Absolutely.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been trolled and even had producers not want to work with me after calling me \u2018fat\u2019. Did it affect me years ago? Yes.
\nDoes it affect me now? Never. Has it affected my acting or my career? I\u2019d let my movies speak for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about my personality? Never. Or my health? Nope. Now some would say \u2018Ignore these trolls.\u2019 I should, shouldn\u2019t I? Yes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing is\u2026. this post ain\u2019t for me or about me, it\u2019s for others like me who get body shamed or called \u2018unpretty\u2019 because they\u2019re larger than their peers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nollywood actor, Mofe Duncan has recalled how some producers body shamed and blacklisted him because of his weight during the early days of his career. Duncan reflected on the body shaming experiences he has faced as an actor while calling out a troll who asserted that he wasn\u2019t fit to be considered as handsome because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33460,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33446\/revisions\/33460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}