‘Joelle is a liar’ – Alleged Insider

An alleged insider has come forward, claiming Joelle is a liar.

The plot, she thickens.

So, a very knowledgeable commenter (or so she claims), has come forward to give us some insight into this whole Joelle vs Bongani mess.

According to the commenter, who is called ‘Real Talk’, Miss Joelle Kayembe isn’t quite what she seems. Real Talk says the relationship between Bongani and the supermodel ended a year ago, but Joelle’s keen to get some money out of it.

Here is the crux:

All I can tell you is that Joelle is a liar, made all those things up to destroy the Bongani’s image. She knows very well that Mbindwane values his privacy & personal life , so she knew this would destroy him personally and his image. She is going on about how this is not about money but rather about how she had a life before Mbindwane & is now fighting to get it back. If that was the case she would have left quietly (No crazy demands) gone back to stay at the cottage she rented & asked for her job back at Jenny Button (sales lady) returned the car that he bought her on her birthday (not the Q5 a mini cooper), returned all the designer clothes & shoes ( she didn’t have any before him). She was never abused… People are going on as if this happened last month or something, these two broke up last year…Wanna know why she was quite all this time? They were trying to get back together & things turned sour when she realized Mbindwane was no longer interested.

She is a cool girl, don’t know what came over her, it could be pressure from friends cause the Joelle I know would never do something like this ( unless she has been pretending to be someone else all this time) and this “ I KILLED YOUR BABY AND YOU ARE GONNA PAY ME FOR IT” attitude is just not her. She needs help & serious help. She is NO conniving bitch but she just isn’t the victim in this case.

Ooooweee. This just gets deeper and deeper.

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Talk about dramz!

Supermodel Joelle Kayembe

One of my favourite beautiful people, Joelle Kayembe, has been involved in some drama of note. She’s splitting from the man she says is her husband – Platfields Limited CEO Bongani Mbindwane. She’s asking for maintenance, and he says they weren’t even legally married in the first place. He claims she had an abortion without informing him. She says he assaulted her. Cars were damaged, clothes were bleached. Phew! Bottom line: it’s he says, she says. It’s also their personal business.

One thing that bothers me about all the coverage, though, is some of the comments calling her a ‘gold digger’ (um, isn’t she from a wealthy family to begin with?) and slagging her off for having an abortion (which, in case people don’t remember, is perfectly legal in South Africa), yet no one says: ‘Wait a minute, this guy assaulted her? Not cool’. She also alleges he cheated on her and she caught him with another woman. But we’re experts at blaming women.

But I doubt Joelle’s professional reputation will suffer. She’s one of the country’s hottest properties and she’s a true professional. [Side note: even Kanye West is an admirer]. I wonder how she’s holding up, though.

Read about all the drama here and here.

Elizabeth Arden goes local

Lerato on the runway for House of Machere at Audi JHB Fashion Week

Congratulations are in order to Lerato Moloi who has been appointed the first black ‘face’ of beauty and cosmetics house Elizabeth Arden.

Lerato (Heads agency) is just 26, but she’s a SA catwalk and editorial staple. I mean, where haven’t we seen her beautiful face?

South Africa is the only country with it’s own local EA brand ambassador. Currently, Catherine Zeta Jones is the only other face of Arden. Lerato will start appearing in ad campaigns from next month.

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