Leila Djansi
The renowned Movie Producer and Director – Leila Djansi has charged all ladies by encouraging them to work hard acquire the say – because looks don’t matter as long as they are the boss.
The astute filmmaker revealed on Facebook in a post saying that when she started her career in film making in Ghana – times were very tough.
She indicated that although she was not an actress and not very beautiful so she was able to a maid role.
Moreover – people’s harsh comments on her looks didn’t discourage her and they could not sway her mind from goals.
She posted
“I’m hoping this story inspires some young woman out there. I was on the Stories Matter panel at the ongoing Bentonville Film Festival and one of the panelists was Kathy O’Brien from Unilever and head of the Dove campaign where they show that women are beautiful no matter what. It’s inspired me to tell my story. — Many years ago, my father was sick with stroke, things were hard at home. I was struggling in the Ghana film industry working without pay and I looked emaciated from starvation. At TV3 one day, one of the Gama executives said to me: ‘Leila, I have a film I’m working on and I really see you playing the housemaid’.
She says that there was no reason why he could have chosen him without her being ugly.
“That same day, I went home broke because the men at Gama were all caught up gawking over a pretty light skinned girl in should have the office, they refused to pay me. Not too long ago, someone on Ghanacelebrities website said I am so ugly, my mother aborted my pregnancy”, said she.
Her purpose of telling the entire story was to tell people who are suffering from inferiority complex in the Ghanaian society where people exploit them for their dark motives.
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