Celebrity photographer and singer, TY Bello was a guest on supertalented
director, Kemi Adetiba's series, King Women. In the episode in which
she was interviewed, TY Bello revealed she was sexually abused when she
was a child and how finding salvation in Jesus Christ helped her feel
better.
“I was sexually abused as a child and because of this, I felt like there
was something ugly about me that made me encounter this. This was not
the abuser’s fault, this was me.
I used to see other girls as flowers and I saw
myself as dirty cement, hard and ugly. I never felt beautiful, I never
did. Everything was wrong with me. My brows were puffy and I was hairy
and it was a problem. I always attributed everything that was about me
to be the reason why someone took advantage of me. I thought there was
something wrong with me because if the others girls were like me,
perhaps they would be dirty like me but they were flowers, they are
pretty and beautiful. Nobody does that to a beautiful girl. When a
friend told me about salvation, she told me old things would be passed
away and all things will become new. It was as if God would wash away
that cement, that stench that caused that thing to happen to me as a
child. Salvation would take that away and me too I can feel like a girl.
When I was growing up, I didn't feel like a girl, I felt like an
impostor. The girls were innocent so I always had to behave like I was
innocent and I would become a girl because I didn’t feel like a girl. So
imagine my shocked when I grew up and found out that one out of every
three or four girls that were in my school had been through the same
thing and I could tell them the same thing… that old thing can pass
away. It was a relief to find that I was not the only one and a shock
that nobody talks about it. That’s why salvation worked, I had a daddy
and I was going to be a flower.”
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