GH Gurls and Padded Hips

Hello Fabulous Friends,

Rita, my hair stylist has changed miraculously. I kept stealing glances at her in the salon but I still couldn’t pin down precisely where the change was. As she walked in her salon, I realized her standard swelling hips and butts that accentuate her perfect body have augmented. I jestingly asked “Rita, are you wearing a diaper?” Contentedly, she replied “Auntie Linda (as she affectionately calls me) I am wearing padded hips and butt.  It is nice paa! This one is GHc 18.00 (she raised her skirt).  I sell some of them.  Do you want one?” I quickly replied her that I am grateful for my little natural endowments.  So that explains my stylist’s total transformation from Kelly Rowland to curvilinear Beyoncé.

The foam-cushioned behind of my hair stylist’s reminded me of a story my pal Kobby recounted. According to Kobby, he met a very good-looking lady at Chez Afrique, East Legon one Friday night. They conversed, boogied and flirted. Kobby wooed the lady until she gave in to a quickie in his house.  As soon as they got to the house, she requested to freshen up in his bathroom. Minutes later, Kobby went to the bathroom to give her a fresh towel only to be greeted by a bra stuffed with handkerchiefs and toilet roll strewn pitilessly on the bathroom floor. All the eagerness and the erection of Kobby’s Mr. P died at once. Gloomily, the quickie gala was cancelled and he never called the lady.

Thanks to China and other unshielded loops, small businesses that vend fake and uncertified drugs are steadily bourgeoning in Ghana.  Importations of expired, unregistered and improperly-labeled drugs through the boarders have become the order of the day in our much-loved homeland. 

Pay a visit to any of the ladies who sells medicines by the roadside,  trust me, she will  prescribe or give you medicine for breast enlargement, penis enlargement, aphrodisiacs, hernia,  asthma and the lists goes on. Some medicines that are on the upswing are creams for breast enhancements, hips and buttocks enlargements. It promises users of tight and firm breasts, hips and buttocks, aside enlarging them.  My uneasiness is, do the ladies who use these creams for breast enhancements, hips and buttocks enlargements alert of serious health risks and complications associated with their usage? Are they even aware of breast cancer and breast tumour? Gracious daughter of Eve, formed in the image of God, the master crafter, I beg you in the name of the newly elected Pope Francis, you don’t have to use all these just to gain acceptance from son of Adam. If he doesn’t accept you for whom you are, then, he doesn’t worth you.

All these issues boil down to our body image as women. Our bodies have always been imperative not only to ourselves alone, but to those around us. Sons of Adam will forever be profoundly fascinated in the female bodies, not only for sensual desires, but also to sire issues. How do we woman fit into our own society when we are constantly told so many different mixed messages; it is acceptable to be skinny, it is acceptable to be fat, or it is okay to be muscular. Whose body image are we trying to imitate? Is it what we want to be? Is it what society thinks we should be? Is it what the commercialists (advertisements, TV models, billboards, magazines etc.) think it should be?

To all the beautiful daughters of Eve, try being yourself. Accept who you are. Be happy with yourself because there is no replica of you in this world.

To all sons of Adam who just love, women with bounteous boobsies and heavily endowed bums and hips, please be warned. There is an outburst of stuffed lolos (breasts) and filled out hips and butts in Accra. Double check what you see, fondle or touch. 

Yours Truly

Akosua Deli.ciouz