I was sexually abused as a child – TY Bello

Celebrity Photographer, TY Bello, shares her story about how she was sexually abused as a child, how she was once a hair dresser.

Bello opened up on how she was molested as a child and that it had a negative effect on her during her formative years.

“I was sexually abused as a child and because of this, I felt like there was something ugly about me that made me encounter this. This was not the abuser’s fault, this was me. I used to see other girls as flowers and I saw myself as dirty cement, hard and ugly. I never felt beautiful, everything was wrong with me, I was hairy and it was a problem,” she said.

“I always attributed everything that was about me to be the reason someone took advantage of me. I thought there was something wrong with me because if the others girls were like me perhaps they would be dirty like me but they were flowers.

“When a friend told me about salvation, she told me old things would be passed away and all things will become new. It was as if God could wash away that stench and I would become a girl because I didn’t feel like a girl.”

She also opened up about how finding God at an early age filled the void created by losing her father as a toddler and also how she takes something as abstract as spirituality, and moulds it into something special, practical and personal to her.

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