Nigerian comedienne, Lepacious Bose, has recounted the embarrassing moments she had to endure because seat belts couldn’t go round her waist due to her weight and how she cried the first time she travelled on a plane without needing seat belt extensions.
The comedian said her weight meant the seat belt in her car couldn’t connect so she always had to hold it with her hand whenever she passed Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials, to avoid being punished for not using a seat belt.
She also recounted travelling on a plane with male comedians and being too ashamed to request a seat belt extension because she didn’t want them to mock her.
On other occasions, while travelling by air, she said she had to ask for a seat belt extension and it made her feel ashamed.
She eventually lost weight and found that on one of her flights, she didn’t need a seat belt extension because it connected without one.
She said she cried then as she remembered all the embarrassing moments she had endured up until that moment.