{"id":114327,"date":"2019-10-09T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T05:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=114327"},"modified":"2019-10-09T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T03:55:07","slug":"vera-on-darkening-her-skin-i-did-it-just-to-promote-my-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/vera-on-darkening-her-skin-i-did-it-just-to-promote-my-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Vera on darkening her skin: I did it just to promote my song\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socialite Vera Sidika has confessed that she went dark for a few days just to promote her song and not because she was missing the skin tone.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Wasafu FM, Vera professed her move to temporarily get her skin from the usual yellow back to black was just a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221;You know, that was just a publicity stunt. I know you understand how stunts work. I did it just to promote my song,&#8221; Vera revealed.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>MIMI<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/vera-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/vera-1.png 542w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/vera-1-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vera Sidika released the video title MIMI which was talking about her skin bleaching incident.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLogic can get you from point A to B, Imagination can get you everywhere. 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