Boity finds being an It girl a drag

16 July 2014 - 02:00 By Andile Ndlovu
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WEIGHING IN: Actress and TV presenter Boity Thulo is swapping make-up for muscles as the brand ambassador for a sports nutritional supplements brand.
WEIGHING IN: Actress and TV presenter Boity Thulo is swapping make-up for muscles as the brand ambassador for a sports nutritional supplements brand.
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For a while, Bonang Matheba, Minnie Dlamini, Boity Thulo, Pearl Thusi and Lerato Kganyago have been rumoured to be fighting over endorsement deals and gigs, but Thulo says it's "frustrating" being one of the so-called It girls.

The five invariably find themselves compared on "who wore it better" lists and vying for jobs.

Matheba reportedly beat Thusi for the mega Revlon deal. More recently, it was announced that Kganyago and Matheba would present a World Cup show on SABC1 together, only for Matheba to pop up on the Supersport World Cup magazine show. Then there are the debates about which of the women has the best body.

Actress Thulo told Nicky Greenwall, on the TV show Screentime last night: "That's what our industry is right now - you have a certain number of females, and not that we want the same thing, but it ends up being painted that way because we end up being put up in little bubbles of 'these are the It girls'... it's so frustrating."

Asked if the women were in competition, she said, "The media shove it in your face all the time, in terms of who's doing what [and] how they're doing it. [But] I'm on this journey of... appreciating and embracing your path, and you only have one and it's yours alone. Even if you were thrown onto someone else's path, you wouldn't get what they get because we're [all] separate human beings."

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