By Ogova Ondego
Published April 10, 2024
Rose Adhiambo is a married mother of three children and weighs 85 kilogrammes. At her wedding barely a decade ago she weighed 55 kilogrammes but every pregnancy has contributed to the extra weight to her husband’s chagrin.
Adhiambo, 30, neither sings with the church’s praise and worship team nor teaches Sunday School after her husband told her that her body shape disgusts him, is poor Christian witness and a disappointment to God. He has given her an ultimatum to lose weight or he shall leave her.
Scared, Adhiambo has sought advice from the Senior Pastor of her church who, in turn, has told her to do as her husband says lest he goes after slimmer women and his sin is heaped on her own head.
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Emotionally troubled by her body image, Adhiambo has vowed that her husband will never see her naked. Thus she wakes up at least two hours earlier than her husband, hastily tugging her night gown down lest her sight horrifies the husband. She also retires to bed later than the husband every night for the same reason; he shouldn’t see her without her clothes on. She says the husband no longer touches her.
The first thing that a man sees when he meets a woman is her figure. Aware of this fact, many single women waiting for their prince in shining armour to sweep them off their feet and take them to their love castle where they hope to live happily ever after will do just about anything to acquire and maintain that eye-popping, traffic-stopping, hour-glass body figure.
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However, once they have got their prince, they believe they have made their catch and so go on to ignore their figure eight shape and grooming. They start eating junk food, do not exercise and acquire the shape of a Yokozuna sumo wrestler which betrays their men as they find it difficult to fondle, cuddle or hold them, there being no distinguishable bosom, bust, waist or hips. Placing hands around such women isn’t akin to the impossible feat of embracing a mature baobab tree.
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Women who ignore taking care of their bodies after marriage can only be compared to Alicia Machado of Venezuela who did everything to be crowned Miss Universe in 1996 but once the then 19-year-old’s goal had been achieved, she went on to eat fattening foods like pasta and cake. Only an ultimatum to strip her of the coveted world beauty pageant title brought her back to her senses. There are many Machados out here, aren’t there?
