What is a socialite?
In Kenya, there's a Kenyan version.
The Kenyan version of a socialite is
a woman who goes half naked to attract the rich boys in town
and to get whatever she wanna get.
My AKA name that everyone knows on the media
on the platform is Bridget Achieng.
This was like $3,000.
I wore this for my birthday.
This one is Charles and Keith.
This one is a Christian Dior.
This is red bottom. This is bloody shoe!
I love them!
It's actually 7:04 in Malaysia.
My holiday was awesome.
It was magical. That's the best word to use.
I do this all the time.
This is something I've always wanted to do since I was a baby.
We used to sit there and just see planes,
and say, "Will I travel on a plane one day?"
My life was not always like this.
Oh my God!
I grew up in Kibera slums.
The ghetto is about survival for the fittest.
Most of the people from Kibera,
married in Kibera,
died in Kibera,
buried in Langata.
Today, I am dressed so simple.
I'm just wearing my Gucci sandals
and I'm wearing my ankle grazer pants from Forever 21
because Forever 21 has nice big pants for girls.
This is how I dress when I'm going to the hood.
It's not complicated. Just jeans and T-shirt.
I tie my belt and I'm good to go.
The hood, there's no problem because
the hood is where I come from.
I'm hood and hood is in me.
Rape is rampant in the ghetto.
No one is coming out to talk about it but I was molested when I was a kid.
It really affected me until I was 25.
I just had a tough childhood.
So I just knew, in this life I'm all by myself.
How are you gal?
It was here.
Isn't this where I was living?
Their dad used to be my landlord.
People think Bridget's mum and parents are so rich
but guys, hey, this is my success story.
This is where I come from.
This is where I used to stay when I was a house girl.
This is where I used to live and go to work
and get that 1,200 Kenyan shillings [£10] and get comfortable with it.
I am from humble beginnings.
You see this is the jewellery I used to make.
I used to even wear a shell on my head.
I was a total African girl.
One of my friends, we were just chilling
and then she was just telling me,
"Bridget, you have a nice body,
you can be a model or a socialite."
That time we had
Huddah,
Vera,
Corazon
and I was like, I know I'm sexy,
if I'm gonna show off my boobies and
some ass on a picture...
I do this photoshoot, the next thing, I'm the big thing.
I mean it's nothing.
Because that's how it is in Kenya.
You know when you're a socialite,
your picture is all over.
People are seeing a sexy girl, like a sexy, curvy girl.
All these rich tycoons want to have a taste of this fine, beautiful African woman.
These are big businessmen.
Tycoons.
You name it.
They'll send you a message and tell you
on the DM.
Or they can send their pimp who'll just text you like, "Can I get your number?"
I got those a lot
when I became a socialite.
So I got a good platform.
Nairobi Diaries.
And I said I'll run away with it...
My girls are big. You can see her ass.
- Yeah, you're right.
We need something bigger.
I don't struggle to fit in.
God has already blessed me.
I work so hard.
So why not get myself a car?
And, I tried.
I wouldn't say I didn't try.
You are a desperate girl looking for money
and you're getting a guy wanting to give you $10,000
just to go visit him wherever in Dubai or wherever
and he's willing to dash you $10,000.
$10,000 - some people have never seen $10,000 in their life.
You just need to look pretty and get $10,000 and be on the flight and go
and do what you have to do.
I always feel like
it has to be something that is in you
because it's crazy things that you're asked to do.
You're told to suck toes, to do what...it's crazy.
You can suck...
I don't want to go deep. I don't wanna to go into details about that
because it freaks me out. I don't wanna scare people.
But the young girls need to know
there is nothing for nothing.
You want a million bucks, you will do something that is worth a million bucks.
You want $5,000, you're going to do something that is worth $5,000.
It's something I tried when I was in my desperate moment.
I had to do it to just get back up.
It's not something any woman should be proud of doing.
Humble yourself and God will lift you up.
Humble beginnings.
I was a house girl.
I became this.
I got money.
God took me back there.
But the way you come back up is what matters.
I have an orphanage with 30 kids in Kibera.
I just want to, when I go, I leave a legacy, you know.
Not just come
cause trouble and leave.
This is what I'd say to a young girl who is beautiful, young
and wants a glam life.
Baby girl,
nothing goes for nothing.