Time for Tea: Does Khanyi Mbau love herself?

By Time For Tea on 27 November 2015 at 13:02 · Comments

Khanyi Mbau has had one tough week.

27 November 2015

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Instead of celebrating her December cover of True Love magazine, Khanyi Mbau has had to defend her “plastic face”.

Khanyi is very open about her cosmetic surgery, but her cover left fans stunned, with many saying she was unrecognisable.

We think it was a combination of too much contouring, bad Photoshop, and her seemingly changed features, like her nose.

The TV host told the magazine she only used fillers to give her nose a better profile, and it is still 100% her nose.

Fans not impressed with Khanyi Mbau's True Love magazine cover: https://t.co/QXgaoBM8rL pic.twitter.com/bX9wUSsqJr
— ZAlebs (@Zalebs) November 23, 2015

But why is it anyone’s business if Khanyi changes her looks? After all, when you look good, you feel good, and we are all for women feeling confident about their appearance.

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But it seems tweeps (people on Twitter) want the old Khanyi back.

Khanyi has proudly been sharing pictures of her True Love cover and some behind-the-scenes shots from the shoot.

She is clearly proud of the cover, and loves the way she looks.

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But it does seem like all the hate she received this week did get to her.

She shared an emotional post about women hating on each other on her Instagram account on Thursday.

I have come to learn and accept something, women are special creatures a rare specie that commands such great influence, power and a great level of strength but for every great structure the Centre is usually hollow.. And this my dear friends is the greatest challenge women have. We give birth to kings, create homes fit for royalty and we can feed a nation and with our hands and arms we have created such safe havens for those we love over so many generations that once we are not around our absence is felt. Once a woman is loved, supported and given a platform to be, she becomes such a beautiful being that nothing can shake her. But for the time I have spent on Instagram and social media it gives me great concern on how many South African woman seem to be so cold, destructive and so insecure that most of them use this platform to expose how empty and needy they are because I do not believe that a truly happy and secure women would spend time on a daily basis trying to bring another human down with verbal insults and believe that they are of woman. A woman's duty is to be a unifier that's why we are chosen to be the givers of life and the custodians of motherhood. So what if I'm too big, too short? our jobs are to always see and find beauty in every little thing as we are Gods assistants in creation and population. My advice is, every women should invest in a good mirror and use it every morning and remind her self how beautiful she truly is and that she is the creator of her fairytale as she is the princess and this may help heal the broken time we live in. Stop Female on female hate.. Even men share more support than us and we are cuter then them. Your comment is only a reflection of what u desire or notice about your self. Be a woman and Love!! #KHANYISILE💡

A photo posted by Khanyi Mbau METANOIA (@mbaureloaded) on Nov 25, 2015 at 8:59am PST

Women are already getting enough hate from men about their looks (cough, Hugh Masekela), and do not need any more pressure to be anyone other than who they want to be.

So wear your weave with pride!