Sonko Becomes First Politician To React To Vera Sidika's Surgery

Sonko fired a warning to Kenyan women against opting to go under the knife to alter their physical shape for the purposes of gaining attention.

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Oct 7, 2022 - 08:32
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Sonko Becomes First Politician To React To Vera Sidika's Surgery
A collage of Vera Sidika and Mike Sonko. /VIRALTEAKE

Former Nairobi Governor, Mike Mbuvi Sonko, has joined a growing list of personalities reacting to socialite Vera Sidika undergoing a buttock reduction procedure to reduce the size of her behind.

In a statement on Thursday, October 6, Sonko fired a warning to Kenyan women against opting to go under the knife to alter their physical shape for the purposes of gaining attention.

The former county boss urged them to desist from making changes to their God-given body shapes and to appreciate themselves the way they are.

Vera Sidika before and after her buttocks reduction surgery. /VIRALTEAKE

He however did not list the consequences for those who will go against his advice, opting to use Sidika's ordeal as an example.

"Poor Vera Sidika was about to die. Let me use kind words to warn women: Please get used to the physical features you have been given by God and stop modifying your body shapes," he said.

For two days, the mother of one has been a trend across the country after she confessed to Kenyans that her health complications from making a number of changes to her body forced her to undergo the buttock reduction procedure, known to fetch one almost half a million shillings.

Sidika encouraged her fellow women to love themselves in a similar manner and not fall prey to peer pressure forcing them to make decisions that would be costly in the future.

"This has been the hardest phase in my life, Due to health risks and complications, I had to undergo surgery.

"It’s still very unbelievable but I’ve come to terms with it and learnt to love myself regardless. Ladies; please learn to love yourself and don’t ever let peer pressure rush you into things that will ruin you in future," she said on Wednesday, October 5.

Award-winning media personality, Betty Kyallo, joined in offering messages of encouragement to her for her decision, saying that she deserves to live her truth as well as a healthy and joyful life.

"Our young girls must know that it's not about people's perception of us. How we look, dress, and how thick or thin we are, whether light-skin or darker. They should know never to give power to strangers over how they should feel about themselves," she warned, however.

Miss Universe Kenya 2005 Rachel Marete Mbuki Litvishkova, based in the United States (US), called out the socialite for lying to the public about why she reduced her booty.

"Vera Sidika needs to be honest with people. The type of side effects she's highlighting only happen to people who had illegal butt injections where they inject silicone or biopolymers. That means that when she was saying she was in Beverly Hills getting a BBL she was probably in a hotel somewhere getting illegal butt injections.

"A BBL (Brazilian Butt Lift) is simply a transfer of your own fat t a different part of your body. Illegal butt injections are dangerous because the silicone travels and leads to major health complications forcing one to remove them," she wrote, giving her own example of undergoing multiple plastic surgeries after recording a massive 40 kilograms weight gain between 2018 and early 2019.

As promised, Sidika released the first part of the reconstructive surgery, explaining that she had to undergo a series of tests before the procedure so that doctors could assess her. She is set to release the full video of the process at the theatre on Friday, October 7.

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