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name: Chidera Eggerue
about: Chidera is featured in Sunday Times’ 2019 Top 100 Influencers list, The Evening Standard Progress 1000 most influential 2019 and BBC’s 100 Women 2018. That same year, Chidera was also awarded Cosmopolitan’s ‘Changemaker of the Year’ award. March 2018 saw Chidera host a BBC Newsbeat documentary about hair loss in young people, which raised awareness of traction alopecia (from which she suffers) and in June of the same year Chidera gave her inaugural TEDx talk, exploring the fear of being alone.2018 was also the year that Chidera created #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER movement which quickly became a trending hashtag and led to Chidera’s appearance on ITV’s This Morning driving a new conversation regarding the way we view women’s bodies.Chidera recently st Chidera is featured in Sunday Times’ 2019 Top 100 Influencers list, The Evening Standard Progress 1000 most influential 2019 and BBC’s 100 Women 2018. That same year, Chidera was also awarded Cosmopolitan’s ‘Changemaker of the Year’ award. March 2018 saw Chidera host a BBC Newsbeat documentary about hair loss in young people, which raised awareness of traction alopecia (from which she suffers) and in June of the same year Chidera gave her inaugural TEDx talk, exploring the fear of being alone.2018 was also the year that Chidera created #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER movement which quickly became a trending hashtag and led to Chidera’s appearance on ITV’s This Morning driving a new conversation regarding the way we view women’s bodies.Chidera recently starred in her own documentary “Bring Back the Bush” that TX-ed 27th January at 10pm on Channel 4, and debuted her first live show “Chidera Eggerue: How To Get Over a Boy Live” at Earth in Hackney. The one-woman, sell-out show was part motivational TED talk, part live book reading, part audience participation, part safe space. She will be launching her podcast ‘The Slumflower Hour’ in 2021. ...more