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Brilio.net/en - Woody Allen once said that, Eight percent of success is showing up
Indeed, the case is true for Olajumoke Orisaguna. This 27 years old bread seller turned model found her way to success after photo-bombing into the photo-shoot set of English musician, Tini Tempah in Nigeria.
Instagram/Tinie Tempah
Just like another usual day in her life, Orisaguna was walking down the street to sell breads, when she found herself crossing the photo set-up that photographer Ty Bello has prepared for Tinie Tempah.
"Some people asking her to leave the set and others asking her to stay. I signaled [to ask] if it was ok to take her photograph and she agreed, and I pressed on my shutter so she could move ahead, said Belo on the first encounter.
After taking several photos, the incident was then forgotten. But when Bello looking through the photos after the shoot, she found herself enchanted by Orisaguna. Shes intrigued by her striking beauty and decided to launch the search quest to find the bread-seller with the help of of course social media.
The search was on. On February 4th, Bello announced in Instagram that she has found the bread seller. And few days later she shared her first shoot with Orisaguna.
"After a conversation with her husband telling him the story of our meeting I decided I was going to photograph her that very afternoon," said Bello.
"Within an hour Bimpe Onakoya, one of Nigeria's leading makeup artists, and Zubby one of my favourite hairstylists were at my studio to work magic.
Image: TY Bello
The lady was surely mesmerizing in the photos with a long-tailed red gown. Orisaguna also posed with her second child, 14-month-old Grace.
Her photo is now grazing the cover of Nigerian magazine 'This Day Style', where her story is reckoned as a modern-day Cinderella.
Originally a hairstylist from Osun State, South-west Nigeria, she was struggling to make ends meet, and left her husband and two children in their home-town to become a street vendor. Working from 2:30pm to 11:00pm selling bread, Orisaguna would make less than $20 each day --with a profit of around $1.
Now she's about to become a top model. Orisaguna is now signed to Few Model Management. The mother of two has been given a scholarship to complete her education, and a bank has offered to pay for schooling for her two children, aged five and one, until university age.
(brl/tis)
