Anele Mdoda On Opportunities She Missed In The Industry Because Of Her Weight. 947 radio host Anele Mdoda is popularly known around the world because of her long history of hosting major events. Anele has hosted the red carpet for many events including the Oscars, where she rubbed shoulders with some of Hollywood’s biggest celebrities.
Mdoda has also hosted major events locally including her recent gig at the 2021 Miss South Africa pageant. Although she is proud to be a curvy woman, it’s no secret that Anele has been body shamed on social media by bullies, and apparently in the industry too. In a recent interview with MacG on his celebrity edition podcast, Anele Mdoda had viewers in stitches speaking about her upbringing.
Anele also gave the Chiller’s a deeper understanding of her career moves and the disadvantages that come with being a plus sized woman in the industry. According to Anele, there’s no doubt that she has been denied opportunities on TV that she deserved because of her weight.
“I haven’t been body shamed to my face but I know there are gigs that I haven’t gotten because of the way I look” she said.
The TV personality shared that the industry is a very shallow minded place, where productions worry about achieving a certain look rather than getting a person who can get the job done. Mdoda added that in the industry, people tend to project their insecurities on other’s and assume plus sized celebs won’t feel comfortable amongst slender people.
Anele added plus sized women such as herself, Celeste Khumalo and Tumi Morake have been phased with questions of “who will dress her” and they have to just grin and bear it. Anele made an example of a show she once hosted where she was excluded from wearing something short because it supposedly wouldn’t look nice on her.
“I remember a show I did where they were just like we can’t put Anele in short things, it just won’t look nice but other people were in short things” Anele said.
On the contrary Anele thinks that this is the reason why she works very hard in the industry to make sure such things don’t affect her bag and it shows.
Watch the interview below
