Lola Ogunyemi, the Nigerian model who starred in a Dove ad that has been criticized as racist, has come to the defense of the campaign, saying that the still that were circulated were taken out of context.
“There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified in their initial outrage,” Ogunyemi wrote in The Guardian on Tuesday, admitting that Dove has been criticized for this same issue in the past. “Having said that, I can also see that a lot has been left out. The narrative has been written without giving consumers context on which to base an informed opinion.”