I bleached My Skin to Get movie roles in Nigerian - Ella Mensah

Popular Ghanaian actress, Ella Mensah, has shed light that she bleached her skin to obtain roles in Nigerian movies.

She said this in an interview with Delay,  revealing that she was dark skinned before going to Nigerian but had to bleach her skin to get roles in Nigerian movies because it was the only way she reasoned she could fit in.

She said;

“I’ve bleached. I don't use creams, I use injection”.

Ella Mensah had before now revealed that Nigerian movie producers and directors prefer giving roles to light-skinned actresses, at the detriment of talented dark skinned actresses.

She said during an interview with Sammy Flexx on Zylofon Fm;


’If you are a dark-skinned person, your talent alone is not going to push you up because a producer once told me that I have the height, the body and that I look attractive’’

The actress who accepted that bleaching was her decision, added that it has assisted her become acceptable in the Nigerian movie industry, She said;

’I thought about it and it is my own skin and thank God I am not going to hurt or kill anybody. So I did it because I love it and also partly because of my job’.