IM NOT A LADY-DEBORAH VANNESSA

Model and Television Presenter Deborah Venessa
Owusu has revealed that she has never referred to
herself as a lady because she does not see herself
as such.
“I have never defined myself as a lady and if you
check all my profiles, I never say I’m a lady. I
don’t label myself as such,” Sister Debbie, as she
is known in Showbiz, stated on NEAT FM’s
Entertainment Ghana.
The ‘Uncle Obama’ singer, who was recently in the
news after her nude pictures went viral on social
media, explained that those pictures were intended
for a Boudoir photography project.
“Boudoir photography is arts and modelling as well.
That is something I do and I am passionate about.
In our society, majority of us are not used to such
photographs, which is fine,” she said.
Boudoir photography is another form of
photography that has to do with taking sexually
suggestive images of nude women or women in
lingerie at luxurious hotel suites.
According to Sister Debbie, the artistic nude
picture was a barter between herself and her
photographer who was working on a project.
“The artistic nude picture which was taken in June
2014 is a barter trade between me and my
photographer and that is not the first nude
picture that I have put out there. I have three
sets. I said barter because when I need promo
pictures which should cost me over Ghc2,000, the
photographer will do it for me,” she added.
The ‘Borla’ singer, who received a lot of bashing
from her Ghanaian fans after her nude pictures
were released, disclosed that when she gets those
negative remarks about her nude pictures she does
not get angry.
She continued: “When people see the picture and
they don’t like it, I don’t get mad.
It is not a problem because if you don’t
understand, it is normal that you would dislike it
or something.
I feel as a human being, if you are passionate
about something you should do it as long as it is
legal and it won’t affect anyone or you won’t be
attacking anyone.”
Sister Debbie however admitted that since she
posted the picture on Instagram, views on her
YouTube account had shot up.
“When I found out that the picture was already out
there and people were tweeting, I also posted it
myself so that people will not think it was a leaked
picture. Around that period, the views for my
‘Borla’ video had gone down and, yes, after I
posted the picture myself, my views shot up to
about 5,000 views. So yes it did help and I would
agree to the fact that I used it to push myself,”
she noted.
Meanwhile, Miss Vannessa debunked earlier reports
which seemed to suggest that she received $8,000
for her nude picture.
“I was misquoted in that story. I didn’t say that
because my artistic nude picture was posted on
Instagram. But YouTube and Instagram have
nothing to do with each other.
They are two different entities –YouTube under
Google and Instagram on its own. If you post a
video on YouTube and you have monetised your
account such that anytime someone clicks on your
video depending on the views, you will make
money.”
“What I said was that since I uploaded my ‘Uncle
Obama’ video in 2012 along with other videos, I had
over a million views and for that I made about
$8,000 so far from my YouTube account.”