By David Reda —
“Pretti Susu” thought a Brazilian Butt Lift would bring success and happiness.
“Satan was taking me for a ride,” she says. “I tried my way, and my way was trash. If you don’t have God in your life, you will be in the wilderness, and you’re going to be in the wilderness for a very long time until you get it together.”
Today, Susu (her real name is not displayed), a Houston resident, is back with God for good after reading the entire Bible.
A Nigerian growing up in Maryland, Susu was raised in church, but a broken home, trauma and rejection in the church (members didn’t approve of her relationship with the man who became her husband) produced their poison. She fell away from God.
Marijuana was one way she tried to “subdue my pain.” Clubbing was another. She would even go clubbing and leave her husband at home.
Another outlet was to become rich and famous through social media: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram. She did fashion, makeup and lifestyle posts consistently. In the beauty sphere, comments can been pretty harsh, so she decided the answer was a BBL.
“I was tunnel vision,” she says. “I didn’t think about God during those years.”
She made new friends but new betrayals reminded her of old wounds, and bitterness was taking place in her heart.
Now living in Texas with her husband, Susu was adrift. Things were slogging along — until she met a certain young lady at a nail salon. The girl talked about God, they exchanged numbers and then met for lunch.
“That lunch date literally changed my life,” Susu says. “It made me realize that God is a 100% real without a shadow of doubt. When I went back home, I no longer wanted to live the life I used to live. I was willing to cut out anything. I was willing to sacrifice anything to just have the peace that I know God gives because prior to that I was dealing with such hard times. Satan was messing with my mind.”
As she came back to God (not her first time), she decided she needed to read the whole Bible, not just hear about God in church.
“When I first got saved, I knew the idea of God. I knew religion,” she says. “But I want to know God and his word alive. Now I have the word of God to smack the devil down when he tries to accuse us.
“In the past my desire for my career success trumped my love for God,” Susu adds. “But this time around my love for God trumps my desire for everything else.”
