Miss Chubby

Introduction

The name is Ntombifuthi Lwandlelethu Cele I am 29 years old. I have 4 siblings, we are five altogether and I am the second child. My mother is Sijabulile and my father is Siyabulela. The first child is Busisiwe Dumakude (32) (she is married), the third child is Sibulele (24) (the first son), the fourth child is Nothando (21) and the last born is Gcinokuhle (17) (the second son). So it’s 3 girls and 2 boys.

My love for drawing, architecture to be precise, started when I was doing grade 8, when I was 12 years old. My mother brought me a diary to write all the things I was going through as I was approaching teenage hood but instead I drew. I drew houses, mansions, castles, bridges, tall buildings. When my mother saw my diary/notebook she showed it to my father and to say he was impressed would be an understatement. They were in the process of renovating our childhood home so they used one of my sketches to guide them. I was taught EGD from grade 10 to 12.

Hence I studied architecture and engineering in varsity. I am currently the CEO and the only shareholder of Dubandlela Construction Company. It is a mixture of architecture and construction under one roof. So we draw and design buildings and we also build them. We get tenders to build malls, schools, hospitals, hotels, you can name them. There is also a department for interior designing. I also do go onsite and get my hands dirty sometimes, not too often. I own my company, meaning I have no board members.

Well I am a chubby girl by birth. I have never had a slim body. Both Busisiwe and Nothando have model bodies but me I am your typical Celeste Ntuli body type. I have caramel skin. I do have big ass and big boobs it’s just that I am a size 42. Since primary I have been body shamed to such an extent that in high school I attempted to commit suicide when a picture of me naked trended. After a lot of therapy I leant to accept myself for who I am. I have never attempted to exercise or use products for sliming. I have shoulder length brown hair, I style it all the time, and I hardly braid my hair. I am not a weave or a bonding person. I am a very flexible person and I have killer dance moves like Busiswa.

One of the weirdest things about me is that my eyes are turquoise in color. You’d think that I use contact lenses but no I have natural weird eyes. Some kids once spread the rumors that I may have Satanism because of my eye color but it took a statement from an optometrist to put those rumors to bed. I have no cellulite or stretch marks but I respect women who have them because they are part of who we are. In relationships that I have had in the past most guys would just f**k and pass, they would be embarrassed to be seen with me in public, they wouldn’t post me. So basically I am a bed warmer but not girlfriend material. So I decided to stop dating and just have f**k buddies and one night stands.

I live alone in my 10 bedrooms house in Warner Beach. My company is situated in Arena Park. My parents and the two younger sublings live in Morningside. Busi lives in Northwest with her husband and 2 kids. Sibulele lives in Northgate, he is a singer, songwriter and producer. Basically he is a celebrity. As I don’t like the spotlight, he tries so much to keep me away from it but we hang out together most of the time so I do make the paparazzi every now and then. Out of all of my siblings he is the one I am closest to followed by Gcino. Busi and Thando never wanted to be associated with me because I am too big for them.

My relationship with my parents is not bad, not good either. We do get along but we are not best of friends however they do support my dreams and they are always there when I need them. Father works in the office of the Mayor of Durban in the finance department and mother is sales manager at SMG in Ballito.

Well I am black successful thick woman and I have leant that people body shaming me won’t make my bank account fatter. So rather ignore them and live my life to the fullest.