I am Rare – I am Me – I am Chantel Maria Lerato Booysen

I am Chantel Maria Lerato Booysen

My Story

This word brings up so many wounds… I laugh and make jokes about being the most confused South African but I had no choice but to create laughter out of such a painful experience.

Caged– means, you had no escape. I had to imprison myself because I always felt like I never belonged anywhere. My mother’s family made me feel too black and my father’s family wasn’t accepting of me being colored. 

Ashamed & Unworthy – I locked myself away and hid from being me because I didn’t know who I was…

My life lesson/ Testimony

Free – Accepting myself and asking for guidance to who I am has set me free.

“I refuse to conform to what the world says I am or should be. I am who God says I am”-RaritybyU

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Real-Raw-Rare

Written by: Chantel Maria Lerato Booysen