num_pages: 374
description: Constantly belittled as a child, ugly duckling Ella Obeta’s dream is to one day become a beauty queen- especially after she falls in love with Meya, the boy who defended her from a bully years ago, but who doesn’t even remember her.  In her second year in university, her childhood dream becomes a reality when she wins a modelling contract. She excitedly moves abroad to start her modelling career, but when a disturbing incidence occurs barely a month after she arrives, she becomes disillusioned. Consequently, she plunges into a hedonistic lifestyle all the while navigating runway shows and fashion campaigns around the world. However, after a devastating personal loss, as well as heart-wrenching news from back home, she quits and returns to Nigeria. There, she focuses on winning Meya’s love, but her efforts seem futile.  Spanning three decades and four continents, Committed to Beauty is one girl’s painful search for love, acceptance, and beauty….in all the wrong places.  
title: Committed to Beauty