I stopped Lerato from going to America - mom

MBABANE – Former Miss Swaziland finalist Lerato Kolobi’s move to New York in the United States was stopped by her mother.

The beauty was supposed to have gone to the United States last year, where she would have joined Wilhelmina Modelling Agency.
This was after the agency got interested and wanted to sign her up her after seeing her during the Miss Swaziland 2008 contest finals. It was also reported that she was also chased by another modelling agency based in Brazil but opted to go for New York instead.

At the time, Kolobi said she was looking forward to pursuing a modelling career in New York which she said was to change her life in an extraordinary way.

But this move did not materialise and her mother, the popular radio personality Doris Vilakati stopped the whole thing.
“I stopped the whole thing because I wanted her to further her studies before she could pursue a career in modelling,” she said.
Vilakati said she was against her daughter’s move to New York because she did not have ‘something’ to fall back on if her modelling career fell.

“She could not rely on her beauty alone to earn a living because it would not last and beautiful women are born everyday. She had to put her academic career first,” she said.
She maintained her stance in as far as the importance of education was concerned, as she said: “…there is no future without education”.

Vilakati advised her daughter to concentrate on things that would give her a bright future that would last for a lifetime rather than short-lived careers.
When asked how her daughter reacted to she putting her foot down and denying her a career opportunity that many girls relish, Vilakati said: “She had no choice but to obey me because I am her parent”.

She said Kolobi would get to do as she pleased once she put her academic career in order, secured a job, and lived in her own house or rented flat.
“As long as she is under my roof, she has no option but to obey my rules and do as I say,” she emphasised.
However, Vilakati said she had no problem with her daughter going for modelling as a professional career once she had obtained something concrete, academically that is.

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