Liza, may hugot sa whitening products

Viral ngayon ang bagong rebe­lasyon ni Liza Soberano tungkol sa naging karanasan niya nang mag-endorse siya noon ng isang whitening product.

Sa panayam sa aktres sa vlog na TigerBelly ay naitanong kasi sa kanya ang tungkol sa pag-glorify ng mga Pilipino sa mga light-skinned celebrities, dahilan para mauso ang iba’t ibang whitening products, at inamin niyang hindi rin siya pabor rito.

“I want to say that there’s a genuine conscious effort to do that and I think there are people that are like you know, they are genuinely like, educating themselves on it and are advocating for it.

“But I think there are a lot of people that are just, you know, they see it online, they see like Western media talking about it and they’re like kinda hopping on a bandwagon, because you know, that’s what’s hot over here,” sey ni Liza.

“But I don’t think they really understand what it means and the actual damage that, you know, the entertainment industry has caused on a lot of young Filipino girls when it comes to their physical bodies and everything,” dagdag niya.

Kasunod nito ay binanggit niya na marami ring artista na ayaw mag-endorse ng whitening product at kabilang na rito si Nadine Lustre.

“I know a lot of actors and actresses like Nadine Lustre for example, or, umm. . .there’s other actors too that I know, they put it in their contracts that they don’t wanna do whitening stuff anymore, that it’s like they can only do moisturing,” aniya.

At this point ay binalikan ni Liza ang kanyang first skin care endorsement when she was 16-17.

“I’m not proud of it, but my first ever like skin care endorsement, it was like a whitening product and I was like, 16, 17, at that time. And obviously, I come from a poor background and so, whatever brands come to me at that time, it was like just grab, grab, grab. And that was also the mentality of my manager, right?” tsika niya.

Nang isu-shoot daw ang commercial ay tan ang color niya dahil sa kanyang pagi-scuba diving. Ang ginawa raw ng kumpanya ng whitening product ay pinaputi siya.

“They whitened me for that commercial, imposed. And for the first time, I actually felt offended because I was like, ‘oh, I wasn’t good enough for you the way I was.’

“So, I was like, what more the other people that already like you know, they get made fun of for their skin color, like what do they feel when the see this, this type of stuff happening online and in the entertainment industry?” pahayag niya.

Magbuhat daw no’n ay may requirements na siya sa kanyang mga endorsements.

“So, after that, I was like I banned that from my list of requirements when it comes to endorsements,” aniya.

Anyway, in a way ay hinahangaan din namin ang aktres sa kanyang pagiging vocal at outspoken, pero dahil din dito ay madalas siyang napapa-trouble at nagi­ging dahilan para i-bash siya ng mga netizens.