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The Kenyan TV girl: Beyond the glitz and glamour

  • Some of these beauties pay dearly for driving sleek German machines and wearing expensive weaves
  • They make sacrifices you wouldn’t trade your miserable life for

Local television girls are pretty and envied by fellow women...even men. They are in our living rooms daily. The more we stare at them on screens reading news or interviewing high-profile personalities, the more some of us think they must be very lucky indeed.

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