Why being too beautiful is a curse

 Many girls her age would not want to be associated with her unless they are way more beautiful than she is

With over a million friend requests jamming a beautiful woman’s social media pages, you’d think she will have a full life, but no Sexual harassment becomes routine as men clamber to crush their crotches on her posterior

Most women dream of getting married and giving birth to beautiful children which is not exactly a bad ambition as you can imagine.

However, if you knew the kind of difficult life which lies ahead for those exceptionally beautiful girl of yours, you will opt to sire the plain Janes of this world.

Beauty comes with a curse. You can’t have your cake and eat it.

The problems start right from birth with the old mamas humorously “booking” the baby girl for their grandsons.

And the problems carry on from there. Many a time parents regard her in terms of the herds of cattle, read bride price, they hope to overcharge prospective in-laws when her hormones gets the better of her.

The uninvited looks from boys who have begun differentiating petticoats from coat jackets start in baby class where they undress her before cat calls follow before Class Four. 

Sexual harassment becomes routine as men clamber to crush their crotches on her posterior in over loaded matatus and ferries.

She grows so used to this kind of attention she doesn’t imagine having it any other way. Simple things like having girlfriends become a pain for her. Many girls her age would not want to be associated with her unless they are way more beautiful than she is, and chances of that happening are almost zero.

They get envious of her, believing she will steal all the thunder from under their tits.

They can put on as much make-up as they possibly could find but all she does is just exist and men ache their heads craning their necks in her direction. Loneliness becomes a new normal for her.

With over a million friend requests jamming her social media pages, you would think she will have a full life. But no. Every single night she will fall back on an empty cold bed alone.

That is no fault of her own though; the average Kenyan man is intimidated by beautiful women.

They all assume that she is a foreskin manager in a sponsor’s mall.

Blame the society for creating the assumption that beautiful women either can’t stay faithful or are only interested in wealthy powerful men.

Potential husbands steer away as they compare marrying her to signing a contract with high blood pressure and liver cirrhosis (since he will be out drinking his jealous rage away every night), her life will be filled with stalkers, jokers and sub-worthy men.

Heartbreak will be her second name as people misunderstand her and call her ‘too picky’.

No one would know whether she is really smart or not as she is constantly judged by her looks.

Her good college grades, it will be assumed, were sexually transmitted from grey-haired professors.

Sometimes she will just want to be invisible to the world but that would never happen because her body makes even the ugliest of outfits turn into haute couture.

At the work place, it will be assumed she executed a ‘spread sheet’ during ‘Kenya Open’ which explains her recent promotion.

She is judged in every way with nosy aunties wondering “Why isn’t she married, why isn’t she getting kids?” which goes on well into her late 30s when her ephemeral beauty has faded.

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