Queen
Okafor is a unique woman with unique features. She has a rare endowment
from nature. Looking at her, one would think she is a man, but she is a
full blooded woman.
Queen, as her name suggests, has become a
celebrity of sort whenever she steps out in public as the people stare
at her in amazement. Queen’s attraction is an abundance of hairs all
over her body especially in the upper region- face, hands, chests etc.
Although she was born without much hair on her body, she gradually began
sprouting them at the age of 21 years. Today, at 26, Queen has done
many things humanly possible to stop the abnormal growth, but to no
avail.
Narrating her experience, Queen said she started noticing
the hair at unusual places at the age of 21. According to the Anambra
State born lady, she has seen the good, the bad and the ugly because of
her abundant hairs. She said she has become the cynosure of all eyes
wherever she goes, sometimes to her utter embarrassment. At one time,
she narrated how a gay person approached her to have anal sex with her,
promising to pay her a princely sum of N500,000.
She said this
was the most terrible encounter she has had on account of her hairs.
She, of course, refused the offer. She said even lesbians also “toast
her” to hangout with her because they found her attractive in both ways,
both as a man and as a woman. When this reporter met Queen in a bus
going to Oshodi from Mile 2, in Lagos some months ago, passengers were
starring at her embarrassingly. As the lady tried to hide her face, more
eyes were on her, thus arousing much interest from co-passengers.
Queen
eventually opened up to this reporter, maintaining that she was not
using the story to beg for money or as a form of publicity stunt, but
only to draw the attention of NGOs to fight for women with such rare
disability as hers. Queen believes that she is a normal person with
unwanted recognition from the society. She told Sunday Sun: “My name is
Queen Nonyerem Okafor. I am from Anambra State. We are five children
from our parents, three girls and two boys. I inherited the hairs from
my mum and it runs in the family.
Once you get to 21 to 23 years
in our family, you start experiencing hair growth. I am 26 years old
now, when I was in secondary school, much hairs were not on my body. It
started when I finished my secondary school. I am not granting you this
interview as if I need help or money, no! I want to tell my story and
what it means to be a hairy woman.
All I need is for an NGO to
take up my case as a woman with abnormal conditions and also to act in
the movie industry.” She revealed to Sunday Sun that the change on her
skin initially made her uncomfortable, but following advice from good
people, her confidence was boosted. In her words: “The first time it
started to grow on my body, I was ashamed, but someone advised me that I
shouldn’t bother, that it is a blessing not a curse. The person told me
that I am unique, besides, wherever I go, I would be recognised. She
advised me that I shouldn’t be ashamed, rather that I should be proud of
myself.
It was her that gave me strength and boosted my self
esteem. Some people think that I am a man. Some think I fixed my breast
to deceive people. Men especially find it difficult to believe that I am
a woman. It was when we interact that most men are reassured that I am a
woman. It has made me to be very popular and recognised in public. It
has boosted my confidence to socialize. People want to identify with me
to know the stuff I am made of. Some want to find out where this girl is
coming from.
People call and dash me money because of my hairy
nature, but I don’t beg for money.” Queen said she tried to stop the
work of nature by applying all sorts of cosmetics and native substances,
all to no avail but it turned out to cause more harm than good. “Before
the advice came, I was asking God why all these now? I was thinking of
what to rub to clear the hair from my skin. I rubbed tortoise faeces and
a lot of things people recommend for me to use, but it didn’t remove
them, rather it caused more harm than good as I started growing bumps
and sores while the hair was still coming out.
So, I stopped
rubbing those things. I suffered those lumps trying to stop the growth,”
she narrated. She revealed that her worst time comes when the weather
is too hot and during the dry season. “When there is much heat, I feel
terrible, it doesn’t itch but it really inconveniences me most times.
That`s why I have to wear or put on light cloths because sweat soaks my
dress when I go out.
Once you see me, you know that heat is
dealing with me as a result of my hairy skin. I used to shave it off but
if I want to shave all, it will cause me lumps all over my body. She
said she had not taken the medical option seriously. “I have not gone to
hospital. I don’t care anymore because it is from within my blood and
it is hereditary. I don’t need it because I can`t be using my money on
something that refuses to free me. A doctor had advised that surgery can
remove it, but not in Nigeria. Maybe outside the country, but I am not
interested.”
Queen revealed that her hair has not changed
anything in her love life, neither does it stop men from admiring her,
rather it has turned many heads to look at her. “A man that is meant for
me will come when the time comes. It is not a problem. I will get
married, after all, there are other disabled people that are married
despite their condition. When I was 18 or 19 years old, I was supposed
to have married, but it was just that the man was a hot tempered person.
He was my suitor and we ended it there. He was seeing the hair coming
little by little.
People are appreciating me and a lot of people
are still coming for my hand in marriage. I have been seeing many men
coming to ask me for relationship, even one claimed he is from a
European country that he came back to Nigeria to look for a woman to
marry. But most men just want a fling, they don’t want serious
relationship. I was doubting if he was real or not. I have admirers just
like every other girl. Most times, I have admires more than normal
girls. But most men are not sincere, my mother would say that love is
not by lip service.
I have been hearing things like, I want to
marry you, but after sleeping with you, the man will end up dumping you
for another woman. My boyfriend likes me the way I look and I have not
been dumped because I am hairy. Men don’t break my heart. I don’t trust
men easily because I wouldn’t allow myself to have emotional breakdown. I
can`t wait for my heart to be broken. In my village, an old woman has
advised that she knows that I am not yet married, but I should believe
that my own person is coming. She said that when my husband will come, I
will find it difficult to believe that the man is my own. She told me
that is how her own daughter looks.
But now I have come to
appreciate how I am created,” she said. Narrating her most embarrassing
moment in high density locations like market places, she disclosed that
people crave to see her face. “I came to Lagos last year to see whether I
can stay in Lagos or not. Other times I have been coming and going. But
the truth is that I have been enjoying my stay in Lagos now because
something good is happening. Anytime I go out, people will notice my
presence and look at me. For instance, the first time I went to Ladipo
Market, people besieged me, both traders and touts snapping me with
their phones and video.
You would be shocked how they gathered
and caused chaotic situation that day, you would have written it as big
news, to the extent that I went to a shopping complex and they started
clapping for me, calling me Eze Nwanyi, which means Queen. They were
hailing me so much. It was the most embarrassing day of my life. The
traders and touts left what they were doing to follow me around and
saying all sorts of things, if not for one man that offered to give us a
lift, we wouldn’t have escaped those boys.
There was a time I
went to Alaba International Market with a sister and traders were
peeping through the window to see my face and they were saying, ‘she is
all hairs oh!’ Someone has stepped down from a bus because of me, a
lady. Both of us were entering a bus at Mile 2 and immediately she
glanced at me she changed her mind and immediately alighted from the bus
despite that the bus conductor was urging her to enter, that was the
only time someone refused to ride in the same bus with me.
Queen
whose dream is to become an actress, said she was forced to resign
because of sexual harassment from her employer. “If I have the
opportunity of becoming an actress, I can do that but it is to get the
right person to help me. I need somebody to help me because I am perfect
in everything I do. I need someone to put me through but people tell me
that for some producers or directors, all they are after is to sleep
with you. I have not encountered that yet, but people have been telling
me to be careful. People get easily attracted to me. The dark
complexioned Queen shocked the reporter with her revelation on how
homosexuals plead to take her to bed. She also explained why she pierced
her nose.
“Why I pieced my nose was because it is fashionable,
though I know I look weird already, I don’t give a hoot. It is my body, I
accept the fact that I am strange. A woman has toasted me at Elegushi
Beach while I was there with my friends. On that day, she called me and
gave me her complimentary card and begged me to hop into her car, but I
refused. She insisted and begged to be my friend, but my mind told me
that she is a lesbian and she was inviting me to Ajah.
I turned
her offer down because I know that most lesbians are into cultism. Some
women will see me and extol my qualities, saying that they see women
with hairs but that my own is the highest. In fact, one said I am the
queen of hairy women. I met a guy at a supermarket and he was obsessed
about me, before you knew it, he started telling me that he liked me,
that I am beautiful and all that. Normal toasting, I thought he was like
every other man as usual, but after the toasting, he went straight to
the point, to tell me that he would like to have sex with me through my
anus, promising to give me half a million naira.
But I rejected
it immediately, God forbid! I can`t tamper with my anus. I stopped
seeing him and refused to pick his calls. I can`t do that. Another man
begged me to bear him a child that will look like me, also promising to
reward me handsomely. When I am praying, I plea with God to help me
overcome them.
Nobody can rape me because I am fearful, but men
see me and get sexually aroused because I look special because of the
hairy skin, but I have not been embarrassed or raped. Being hairy gives
me protection as people see me and get afraid of me. Those guys who
attack people see me and hail me. They will not like to do anything bad
to me.
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Queen
Okafor is a unique woman with unique features. She has a rare endowment
from nature. Looking at her, one would think she is a man, but she is a
full blooded woman.
Queen, as her name suggests, has become a
celebrity of sort whenever she steps out in public as the people stare
at her in amazement. Queen’s attraction is an abundance of hairs all
over her body especially in the upper region- face, hands, chests etc.
Although she was born without much hair on her body, she gradually began
sprouting them at the age of 21 years. Today, at 26, Queen has done
many things humanly possible to stop the abnormal growth, but to no
avail.
Narrating her experience, Queen said she started noticing
the hair at unusual places at the age of 21. According to the Anambra
State born lady, she has seen the good, the bad and the ugly because of
her abundant hairs. She said she has become the cynosure of all eyes
wherever she goes, sometimes to her utter embarrassment. At one time,
she narrated how a gay person approached her to have anal sex with her,
promising to pay her a princely sum of N500,000.
She said this
was the most terrible encounter she has had on account of her hairs.
She, of course, refused the offer. She said even lesbians also “toast
her” to hangout with her because they found her attractive in both ways,
both as a man and as a woman. When this reporter met Queen in a bus
going to Oshodi from Mile 2, in Lagos some months ago, passengers were
starring at her embarrassingly. As the lady tried to hide her face, more
eyes were on her, thus arousing much interest from co-passengers.
Queen
eventually opened up to this reporter, maintaining that she was not
using the story to beg for money or as a form of publicity stunt, but
only to draw the attention of NGOs to fight for women with such rare
disability as hers. Queen believes that she is a normal person with
unwanted recognition from the society. She told Sunday Sun: “My name is
Queen Nonyerem Okafor. I am from Anambra State. We are five children
from our parents, three girls and two boys. I inherited the hairs from
my mum and it runs in the family.
Once you get to 21 to 23 years
in our family, you start experiencing hair growth. I am 26 years old
now, when I was in secondary school, much hairs were not on my body. It
started when I finished my secondary school. I am not granting you this
interview as if I need help or money, no! I want to tell my story and
what it means to be a hairy woman.
All I need is for an NGO to
take up my case as a woman with abnormal conditions and also to act in
the movie industry.” She revealed to Sunday Sun that the change on her
skin initially made her uncomfortable, but following advice from good
people, her confidence was boosted. In her words: “The first time it
started to grow on my body, I was ashamed, but someone advised me that I
shouldn’t bother, that it is a blessing not a curse. The person told me
that I am unique, besides, wherever I go, I would be recognised. She
advised me that I shouldn’t be ashamed, rather that I should be proud of
myself.
It was her that gave me strength and boosted my self
esteem. Some people think that I am a man. Some think I fixed my breast
to deceive people. Men especially find it difficult to believe that I am
a woman. It was when we interact that most men are reassured that I am a
woman. It has made me to be very popular and recognised in public. It
has boosted my confidence to socialize. People want to identify with me
to know the stuff I am made of. Some want to find out where this girl is
coming from.
People call and dash me money because of my hairy
nature, but I don’t beg for money.” Queen said she tried to stop the
work of nature by applying all sorts of cosmetics and native substances,
all to no avail but it turned out to cause more harm than good. “Before
the advice came, I was asking God why all these now? I was thinking of
what to rub to clear the hair from my skin. I rubbed tortoise faeces and
a lot of things people recommend for me to use, but it didn’t remove
them, rather it caused more harm than good as I started growing bumps
and sores while the hair was still coming out.
So, I stopped
rubbing those things. I suffered those lumps trying to stop the growth,”
she narrated. She revealed that her worst time comes when the weather
is too hot and during the dry season. “When there is much heat, I feel
terrible, it doesn’t itch but it really inconveniences me most times.
That`s why I have to wear or put on light cloths because sweat soaks my
dress when I go out.
Once you see me, you know that heat is
dealing with me as a result of my hairy skin. I used to shave it off but
if I want to shave all, it will cause me lumps all over my body. She
said she had not taken the medical option seriously. “I have not gone to
hospital. I don’t care anymore because it is from within my blood and
it is hereditary. I don’t need it because I can`t be using my money on
something that refuses to free me. A doctor had advised that surgery can
remove it, but not in Nigeria. Maybe outside the country, but I am not
interested.”
Queen revealed that her hair has not changed
anything in her love life, neither does it stop men from admiring her,
rather it has turned many heads to look at her. “A man that is meant for
me will come when the time comes. It is not a problem. I will get
married, after all, there are other disabled people that are married
despite their condition. When I was 18 or 19 years old, I was supposed
to have married, but it was just that the man was a hot tempered person.
He was my suitor and we ended it there. He was seeing the hair coming
little by little.
People are appreciating me and a lot of people
are still coming for my hand in marriage. I have been seeing many men
coming to ask me for relationship, even one claimed he is from a
European country that he came back to Nigeria to look for a woman to
marry. But most men just want a fling, they don’t want serious
relationship. I was doubting if he was real or not. I have admirers just
like every other girl. Most times, I have admires more than normal
girls. But most men are not sincere, my mother would say that love is
not by lip service.
I have been hearing things like, I want to
marry you, but after sleeping with you, the man will end up dumping you
for another woman. My boyfriend likes me the way I look and I have not
been dumped because I am hairy. Men don’t break my heart. I don’t trust
men easily because I wouldn’t allow myself to have emotional breakdown. I
can`t wait for my heart to be broken. In my village, an old woman has
advised that she knows that I am not yet married, but I should believe
that my own person is coming. She said that when my husband will come, I
will find it difficult to believe that the man is my own. She told me
that is how her own daughter looks.
But now I have come to
appreciate how I am created,” she said. Narrating her most embarrassing
moment in high density locations like market places, she disclosed that
people crave to see her face. “I came to Lagos last year to see whether I
can stay in Lagos or not. Other times I have been coming and going. But
the truth is that I have been enjoying my stay in Lagos now because
something good is happening. Anytime I go out, people will notice my
presence and look at me. For instance, the first time I went to Ladipo
Market, people besieged me, both traders and touts snapping me with
their phones and video.
You would be shocked how they gathered
and caused chaotic situation that day, you would have written it as big
news, to the extent that I went to a shopping complex and they started
clapping for me, calling me Eze Nwanyi, which means Queen. They were
hailing me so much. It was the most embarrassing day of my life. The
traders and touts left what they were doing to follow me around and
saying all sorts of things, if not for one man that offered to give us a
lift, we wouldn’t have escaped those boys.
There was a time I
went to Alaba International Market with a sister and traders were
peeping through the window to see my face and they were saying, ‘she is
all hairs oh!’ Someone has stepped down from a bus because of me, a
lady. Both of us were entering a bus at Mile 2 and immediately she
glanced at me she changed her mind and immediately alighted from the bus
despite that the bus conductor was urging her to enter, that was the
only time someone refused to ride in the same bus with me.
Queen
whose dream is to become an actress, said she was forced to resign
because of sexual harassment from her employer. “If I have the
opportunity of becoming an actress, I can do that but it is to get the
right person to help me. I need somebody to help me because I am perfect
in everything I do. I need someone to put me through but people tell me
that for some producers or directors, all they are after is to sleep
with you. I have not encountered that yet, but people have been telling
me to be careful. People get easily attracted to me. The dark
complexioned Queen shocked the reporter with her revelation on how
homosexuals plead to take her to bed. She also explained why she pierced
her nose.
“Why I pieced my nose was because it is fashionable,
though I know I look weird already, I don’t give a hoot. It is my body, I
accept the fact that I am strange. A woman has toasted me at Elegushi
Beach while I was there with my friends. On that day, she called me and
gave me her complimentary card and begged me to hop into her car, but I
refused. She insisted and begged to be my friend, but my mind told me
that she is a lesbian and she was inviting me to Ajah.
I turned
her offer down because I know that most lesbians are into cultism. Some
women will see me and extol my qualities, saying that they see women
with hairs but that my own is the highest. In fact, one said I am the
queen of hairy women. I met a guy at a supermarket and he was obsessed
about me, before you knew it, he started telling me that he liked me,
that I am beautiful and all that. Normal toasting, I thought he was like
every other man as usual, but after the toasting, he went straight to
the point, to tell me that he would like to have sex with me through my
anus, promising to give me half a million naira.
But I rejected
it immediately, God forbid! I can`t tamper with my anus. I stopped
seeing him and refused to pick his calls. I can`t do that. Another man
begged me to bear him a child that will look like me, also promising to
reward me handsomely. When I am praying, I plea with God to help me
overcome them.
Nobody can rape me because I am fearful, but men
see me and get sexually aroused because I look special because of the
hairy skin, but I have not been embarrassed or raped. Being hairy gives
me protection as people see me and get afraid of me. Those guys who
attack people see me and hail me. They will not like to do anything bad
to me.
- See more at: http://www.naijapicks.com/2013/12/people-notice-me-everywhere-i-gosays.html#sthash.EXoUMO3t.dpuf
Queen
Okafor is a unique woman with unique features. She has a rare endowment
from nature. Looking at her, one would think she is a man, but she is a
full blooded woman.
Queen, as her name suggests, has become a
celebrity of sort whenever she steps out in public as the people stare
at her in amazement. Queen’s attraction is an abundance of hairs all
over her body especially in the upper region- face, hands, chests etc.
Although she was born without much hair on her body, she gradually began
sprouting them at the age of 21 years. Today, at 26, Queen has done
many things humanly possible to stop the abnormal growth, but to no
avail.
Narrating her experience, Queen said she started noticing
the hair at unusual places at the age of 21. According to the Anambra
State born lady, she has seen the good, the bad and the ugly because of
her abundant hairs. She said she has become the cynosure of all eyes
wherever she goes, sometimes to her utter embarrassment. At one time,
she narrated how a gay person approached her to have anal sex with her,
promising to pay her a princely sum of N500,000.
She said this
was the most terrible encounter she has had on account of her hairs.
She, of course, refused the offer. She said even lesbians also “toast
her” to hangout with her because they found her attractive in both ways,
both as a man and as a woman. When this reporter met Queen in a bus
going to Oshodi from Mile 2, in Lagos some months ago, passengers were
starring at her embarrassingly. As the lady tried to hide her face, more
eyes were on her, thus arousing much interest from co-passengers.
Queen
eventually opened up to this reporter, maintaining that she was not
using the story to beg for money or as a form of publicity stunt, but
only to draw the attention of NGOs to fight for women with such rare
disability as hers. Queen believes that she is a normal person with
unwanted recognition from the society. She told Sunday Sun: “My name is
Queen Nonyerem Okafor. I am from Anambra State. We are five children
from our parents, three girls and two boys. I inherited the hairs from
my mum and it runs in the family.
Once you get to 21 to 23 years
in our family, you start experiencing hair growth. I am 26 years old
now, when I was in secondary school, much hairs were not on my body. It
started when I finished my secondary school. I am not granting you this
interview as if I need help or money, no! I want to tell my story and
what it means to be a hairy woman.
All I need is for an NGO to
take up my case as a woman with abnormal conditions and also to act in
the movie industry.” She revealed to Sunday Sun that the change on her
skin initially made her uncomfortable, but following advice from good
people, her confidence was boosted. In her words: “The first time it
started to grow on my body, I was ashamed, but someone advised me that I
shouldn’t bother, that it is a blessing not a curse. The person told me
that I am unique, besides, wherever I go, I would be recognised. She
advised me that I shouldn’t be ashamed, rather that I should be proud of
myself.
It was her that gave me strength and boosted my self
esteem. Some people think that I am a man. Some think I fixed my breast
to deceive people. Men especially find it difficult to believe that I am
a woman. It was when we interact that most men are reassured that I am a
woman. It has made me to be very popular and recognised in public. It
has boosted my confidence to socialize. People want to identify with me
to know the stuff I am made of. Some want to find out where this girl is
coming from.
People call and dash me money because of my hairy
nature, but I don’t beg for money.” Queen said she tried to stop the
work of nature by applying all sorts of cosmetics and native substances,
all to no avail but it turned out to cause more harm than good. “Before
the advice came, I was asking God why all these now? I was thinking of
what to rub to clear the hair from my skin. I rubbed tortoise faeces and
a lot of things people recommend for me to use, but it didn’t remove
them, rather it caused more harm than good as I started growing bumps
and sores while the hair was still coming out.
So, I stopped
rubbing those things. I suffered those lumps trying to stop the growth,”
she narrated. She revealed that her worst time comes when the weather
is too hot and during the dry season. “When there is much heat, I feel
terrible, it doesn’t itch but it really inconveniences me most times.
That`s why I have to wear or put on light cloths because sweat soaks my
dress when I go out.
Once you see me, you know that heat is
dealing with me as a result of my hairy skin. I used to shave it off but
if I want to shave all, it will cause me lumps all over my body. She
said she had not taken the medical option seriously. “I have not gone to
hospital. I don’t care anymore because it is from within my blood and
it is hereditary. I don’t need it because I can`t be using my money on
something that refuses to free me. A doctor had advised that surgery can
remove it, but not in Nigeria. Maybe outside the country, but I am not
interested.”
Queen revealed that her hair has not changed
anything in her love life, neither does it stop men from admiring her,
rather it has turned many heads to look at her. “A man that is meant for
me will come when the time comes. It is not a problem. I will get
married, after all, there are other disabled people that are married
despite their condition. When I was 18 or 19 years old, I was supposed
to have married, but it was just that the man was a hot tempered person.
He was my suitor and we ended it there. He was seeing the hair coming
little by little.
People are appreciating me and a lot of people
are still coming for my hand in marriage. I have been seeing many men
coming to ask me for relationship, even one claimed he is from a
European country that he came back to Nigeria to look for a woman to
marry. But most men just want a fling, they don’t want serious
relationship. I was doubting if he was real or not. I have admirers just
like every other girl. Most times, I have admires more than normal
girls. But most men are not sincere, my mother would say that love is
not by lip service.
I have been hearing things like, I want to
marry you, but after sleeping with you, the man will end up dumping you
for another woman. My boyfriend likes me the way I look and I have not
been dumped because I am hairy. Men don’t break my heart. I don’t trust
men easily because I wouldn’t allow myself to have emotional breakdown. I
can`t wait for my heart to be broken. In my village, an old woman has
advised that she knows that I am not yet married, but I should believe
that my own person is coming. She said that when my husband will come, I
will find it difficult to believe that the man is my own. She told me
that is how her own daughter looks.
But now I have come to
appreciate how I am created,” she said. Narrating her most embarrassing
moment in high density locations like market places, she disclosed that
people crave to see her face. “I came to Lagos last year to see whether I
can stay in Lagos or not. Other times I have been coming and going. But
the truth is that I have been enjoying my stay in Lagos now because
something good is happening. Anytime I go out, people will notice my
presence and look at me. For instance, the first time I went to Ladipo
Market, people besieged me, both traders and touts snapping me with
their phones and video.
You would be shocked how they gathered
and caused chaotic situation that day, you would have written it as big
news, to the extent that I went to a shopping complex and they started
clapping for me, calling me Eze Nwanyi, which means Queen. They were
hailing me so much. It was the most embarrassing day of my life. The
traders and touts left what they were doing to follow me around and
saying all sorts of things, if not for one man that offered to give us a
lift, we wouldn’t have escaped those boys.
There was a time I
went to Alaba International Market with a sister and traders were
peeping through the window to see my face and they were saying, ‘she is
all hairs oh!’ Someone has stepped down from a bus because of me, a
lady. Both of us were entering a bus at Mile 2 and immediately she
glanced at me she changed her mind and immediately alighted from the bus
despite that the bus conductor was urging her to enter, that was the
only time someone refused to ride in the same bus with me.
Queen
whose dream is to become an actress, said she was forced to resign
because of sexual harassment from her employer. “If I have the
opportunity of becoming an actress, I can do that but it is to get the
right person to help me. I need somebody to help me because I am perfect
in everything I do. I need someone to put me through but people tell me
that for some producers or directors, all they are after is to sleep
with you. I have not encountered that yet, but people have been telling
me to be careful. People get easily attracted to me. The dark
complexioned Queen shocked the reporter with her revelation on how
homosexuals plead to take her to bed. She also explained why she pierced
her nose.
“Why I pieced my nose was because it is fashionable,
though I know I look weird already, I don’t give a hoot. It is my body, I
accept the fact that I am strange. A woman has toasted me at Elegushi
Beach while I was there with my friends. On that day, she called me and
gave me her complimentary card and begged me to hop into her car, but I
refused. She insisted and begged to be my friend, but my mind told me
that she is a lesbian and she was inviting me to Ajah.
I turned
her offer down because I know that most lesbians are into cultism. Some
women will see me and extol my qualities, saying that they see women
with hairs but that my own is the highest. In fact, one said I am the
queen of hairy women. I met a guy at a supermarket and he was obsessed
about me, before you knew it, he started telling me that he liked me,
that I am beautiful and all that. Normal toasting, I thought he was like
every other man as usual, but after the toasting, he went straight to
the point, to tell me that he would like to have sex with me through my
anus, promising to give me half a million naira.
But I rejected
it immediately, God forbid! I can`t tamper with my anus. I stopped
seeing him and refused to pick his calls. I can`t do that. Another man
begged me to bear him a child that will look like me, also promising to
reward me handsomely. When I am praying, I plea with God to help me
overcome them.
Nobody can rape me because I am fearful, but men
see me and get sexually aroused because I look special because of the
hairy skin, but I have not been embarrassed or raped. Being hairy gives
me protection as people see me and get afraid of me. Those guys who
attack people see me and hail me. They will not like to do anything bad
to me.
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Queen Okafor is a unique woman with unique features. She has a rare
endowment from nature. Looking at her, one would think she is a man, but
she is a full blooded woman.
Queen, as her name suggests, has
become a celebrity of sort whenever she steps out in public as the
people stare at her in amazement. Queen’s attraction is an abundance of
hairs all over her body especially in the upper region- face, hands,
chests etc. Although she was born without much hair on her body, she
gradually began sprouting them at the age of 21 years. Today, at 26,
Queen has done many things humanly possible to stop the abnormal growth,
but to no avail.
Narrating her experience, Queen said she
started noticing the hair at unusual places at the age of 21. According
to the Anambra State born lady, she has seen the good, the bad and the
ugly because of her abundant hairs. She said she has become the cynosure
of all eyes wherever she goes, sometimes to her utter embarrassment. At
one time, she narrated how a gay person approached her to have anal sex
with her, promising to pay her a princely sum of N500,000.
She
said this was the most terrible encounter she has had on account of her
hairs. She, of course, refused the offer. She said even lesbians also
“toast her” to hangout with her because they found her attractive in
both ways, both as a man and as a woman. When this reporter met Queen in
a bus going to Oshodi from Mile 2, in Lagos some months ago, passengers
were starring at her embarrassingly. As the lady tried to hide her
face, more eyes were on her, thus arousing much interest from
co-passengers.
Queen eventually opened up to this reporter,
maintaining that she was not using the story to beg for money or as a
form of publicity stunt, but only to draw the attention of NGOs to fight
for women with such rare disability as hers. Queen believes that she is
a normal person with unwanted recognition from the society. She told
Sunday Sun: “My name is Queen Nonyerem Okafor. I am from Anambra State.
We are five children from our parents, three girls and two boys. I
inherited the hairs from my mum and it runs in the family.
Once
you get to 21 to 23 years in our family, you start experiencing hair
growth. I am 26 years old now, when I was in secondary school, much
hairs were not on my body. It started when I finished my secondary
school. I am not granting you this interview as if I need help or money,
no! I want to tell my story and what it means to be a hairy woman.
All
I need is for an NGO to take up my case as a woman with abnormal
conditions and also to act in the movie industry.” She revealed to
Sunday Sun that the change on her skin initially made her uncomfortable,
but following advice from good people, her confidence was boosted. In
her words: “The first time it started to grow on my body, I was ashamed,
but someone advised me that I shouldn’t bother, that it is a blessing
not a curse. The person told me that I am unique, besides, wherever I
go, I would be recognised. She advised me that I shouldn’t be ashamed,
rather that I should be proud of myself.
It was her that gave me
strength and boosted my self esteem. Some people think that I am a man.
Some think I fixed my breast to deceive people. Men especially find it
difficult to believe that I am a woman. It was when we interact that
most men are reassured that I am a woman. It has made me to be very
popular and recognised in public. It has boosted my confidence to
socialize. People want to identify with me to know the stuff I am made
of. Some want to find out where this girl is coming from.
People
call and dash me money because of my hairy nature, but I don’t beg for
money.” Queen said she tried to stop the work of nature by applying all
sorts of cosmetics and native substances, all to no avail but it turned
out to cause more harm than good. “Before the advice came, I was asking
God why all these now? I was thinking of what to rub to clear the hair
from my skin. I rubbed tortoise faeces and a lot of things people
recommend for me to use, but it didn’t remove them, rather it caused
more harm than good as I started growing bumps and sores while the hair
was still coming out.
So, I stopped rubbing those things. I
suffered those lumps trying to stop the growth,” she narrated. She
revealed that her worst time comes when the weather is too hot and
during the dry season. “When there is much heat, I feel terrible, it
doesn’t itch but it really inconveniences me most times. That`s why I
have to wear or put on light cloths because sweat soaks my dress when I
go out.
Once you see me, you know that heat is dealing with me as
a result of my hairy skin. I used to shave it off but if I want to
shave all, it will cause me lumps all over my body. She said she had not
taken the medical option seriously. “I have not gone to hospital. I
don’t care anymore because it is from within my blood and it is
hereditary. I don’t need it because I can`t be using my money on
something that refuses to free me. A doctor had advised that surgery can
remove it, but not in Nigeria. Maybe outside the country, but I am not
interested.”
Queen revealed that her hair has not changed
anything in her love life, neither does it stop men from admiring her,
rather it has turned many heads to look at her. “A man that is meant for
me will come when the time comes. It is not a problem. I will get
married, after all, there are other disabled people that are married
despite their condition. When I was 18 or 19 years old, I was supposed
to have married, but it was just that the man was a hot tempered person.
He was my suitor and we ended it there. He was seeing the hair coming
little by little.
People are appreciating me and a lot of people
are still coming for my hand in marriage. I have been seeing many men
coming to ask me for relationship, even one claimed he is from a
European country that he came back to Nigeria to look for a woman to
marry. But most men just want a fling, they don’t want serious
relationship. I was doubting if he was real or not. I have admirers just
like every other girl. Most times, I have admires more than normal
girls. But most men are not sincere, my mother would say that love is
not by lip service.
I have been hearing things like, I want to
marry you, but after sleeping with you, the man will end up dumping you
for another woman. My boyfriend likes me the way I look and I have not
been dumped because I am hairy. Men don’t break my heart. I don’t trust
men easily because I wouldn’t allow myself to have emotional breakdown. I
can`t wait for my heart to be broken. In my village, an old woman has
advised that she knows that I am not yet married, but I should believe
that my own person is coming. She said that when my husband will come, I
will find it difficult to believe that the man is my own. She told me
that is how her own daughter looks.
But now I have come to
appreciate how I am created,” she said. Narrating her most embarrassing
moment in high density locations like market places, she disclosed that
people crave to see her face. “I came to Lagos last year to see whether I
can stay in Lagos or not. Other times I have been coming and going. But
the truth is that I have been enjoying my stay in Lagos now because
something good is happening. Anytime I go out, people will notice my
presence and look at me. For instance, the first time I went to Ladipo
Market, people besieged me, both traders and touts snapping me with
their phones and video.
You would be shocked how they gathered
and caused chaotic situation that day, you would have written it as big
news, to the extent that I went to a shopping complex and they started
clapping for me, calling me Eze Nwanyi, which means Queen. They were
hailing me so much. It was the most embarrassing day of my life. The
traders and touts left what they were doing to follow me around and
saying all sorts of things, if not for one man that offered to give us a
lift, we wouldn’t have escaped those boys.
There was a time I
went to Alaba International Market with a sister and traders were
peeping through the window to see my face and they were saying, ‘she is
all hairs oh!’ Someone has stepped down from a bus because of me, a
lady. Both of us were entering a bus at Mile 2 and immediately she
glanced at me she changed her mind and immediately alighted from the bus
despite that the bus conductor was urging her to enter, that was the
only time someone refused to ride in the same bus with me.
Queen
whose dream is to become an actress, said she was forced to resign
because of sexual harassment from her employer. “If I have the
opportunity of becoming an actress, I can do that but it is to get the
right person to help me. I need somebody to help me because I am perfect
in everything I do. I need someone to put me through but people tell me
that for some producers or directors, all they are after is to sleep
with you. I have not encountered that yet, but people have been telling
me to be careful. People get easily attracted to me. The dark
complexioned Queen shocked the reporter with her revelation on how
homosexuals plead to take her to bed. She also explained why she pierced
her nose.
“Why I pieced my nose was because it is fashionable,
though I know I look weird already, I don’t give a hoot. It is my body, I
accept the fact that I am strange. A woman has toasted me at Elegushi
Beach while I was there with my friends. On that day, she called me and
gave me her complimentary card and begged me to hop into her car, but I
refused. She insisted and begged to be my friend, but my mind told me
that she is a lesbian and she was inviting me to Ajah.
I turned
her offer down because I know that most lesbians are into cultism. Some
women will see me and extol my qualities, saying that they see women
with hairs but that my own is the highest. In fact, one said I am the
queen of hairy women. I met a guy at a supermarket and he was obsessed
about me, before you knew it, he started telling me that he liked me,
that I am beautiful and all that. Normal toasting, I thought he was like
every other man as usual, but after the toasting, he went straight to
the point, to tell me that he would like to have sex with me through my
anus, promising to give me half a million naira.
But I rejected
it immediately, God forbid! I can`t tamper with my anus. I stopped
seeing him and refused to pick his calls. I can`t do that. Another man
begged me to bear him a child that will look like me, also promising to
reward me handsomely. When I am praying, I plea with God to help me
overcome them.
Nobody can rape me because I am fearful, but men
see me and get sexually aroused because I look special because of the
hairy skin, but I have not been embarrassed or raped. Being hairy gives
me protection as people see me and get afraid of me. Those guys who
attack people see me and hail me. They will not like to do anything bad
to me.
Source: The Sun
