Angela White is done hiding behind Blac Chyna. She couldn’t love herself more.

Marissa Evans April 16, 2024

Angela White is radiant.

When shes walks up to our table at a cafe in Calabasas, there are no cameras and no filters. She is petite with a big personality and laugh. Her face is flawless and radiates warmth when she smiles. She is happy. Really, truly happy with the Angela she is now.

She is honest that media interviews are not always her favorite thing. Not when she has been burned before. Not when her openness hasn’t always been met with graciousness or kindness. But she has slowly but surely aimed to open up more. After all, she has nothing to hide and nothing to be ashamed of.

The price of Whites beauty over the years could be best summed up in needles, injections, fillers, burning sensations and judgment. When White was in the thick of getting cosmetic procedures, they didnt hurt.

But when she videotaped herself

getting her cheek fillers removed last March,

the reality TV star

said it stung and burned.

The needle

prick

s and breast and butt reduction surgeries within the last year

is are

the cost of change

that

White was determined to undergo physically, emotionally and spiritually in a less than kind or forgiving media environment. But whatever you call

this phase of her life

a transformation or metamorphosis,

or whatever you decide to call her Blac Chyna, Chyna or Angela will do White is eager to see who she will become.

She in

i

tially considered this to be her soft girl era but has changed her mind about that. She is calmer, more patient and focused on herself. Hell, she’s even taken

on up

running in an effort to do the things she’s long hated. She will look you in the eye

s

and tell you without a doubt, this is not a trend, this is who she is now.

I was hiding Angela, because I had just been hurt so much throughout the years, White said when we first met with her last September. I feel like as a woman in this industry, people will try you, they will try to walk all over you and make you seem less than or that you’re not capable of doing certain things, and that’s just other people’s insecurities. And

then

when their insecurities rub off on you

,

then you kind of start looking at yourself different.

White first hit the celebrity scene more than a decade ago as a 19-year-old exotic dancer who became Nicki Minajs music video stunt double;

she

eventually

becoming became

a video vixen after

the

rapper Drake saw her working in a Miami club and shouted her out in the song Miss Me.

She then became a reality television star, making headlines in 2016 when she started dating

and became pregnant by Kardashian brother

Rob

Kardashian, the brother of the Kardashian sisters and became pregnant.It That

led to the

couple’sir E! reality

show Rob and Chyna,

which

documented their relationship,

which went from promising to rocky during production, and they later split up. after their son/daughter? add name

She has also been part of the cast for the BET reality show The Black Hamptons.

White was also at one point on the subscription site OnlyFans when the pandemic hit in 2020;

there,

she posted adult-only content. White told Forbes in a previous interview that she made $2 million in a two-year time span on

from

the platform. She deleted her account in 2023 as part of her personal journey and

out of

concern

about for

her children.

Besides her In addition to her

daughter

with Rob Kardashian

, White has a son

,

ing Cairo

,

with her ex, rapper Tyga.

Amid the changes shes making in her life, White appeared as a cast member in the latest season of the Fox show Special Forces. She was also part of the cast of the Tubi platform movie Vicious Affairs and Forever Us.”

Blac Chyna is the brand, but more than that, Whites protection since Blac Chyna is not having it with nobody, like if its bad business, she’s not having it. Disrespect, she’s not having it

,

she says referring to her alter ego in third person.

White said she can also be no-nonsense but Blac Chyna wasnt always very soft.

“I’m soft to the people that I need to be soft with, that give me respect, and I give that respect back,” White said. “If people want to be nasty and rude, I’m still not going to give that back, but I’m going to guard myself. I don’t want people to think that, ‘

O

h, I’m soft.

B

ecause I’m not.’ I’m a soft person, I’m a gentle person, but I’m not soft…. This is not an era for me.”

White, who grewGrowing

up in Washington

,

D

.

C

.

,

White

always felt beautiful as a child. She remembers being made fun of sometimes for the size of her forehead I have a big forehead, she laughs but overall liked how she looked.

For beauty and style icons, White looked up to her mother, Shalana Hunter, known as Tokyo Toni, for being a true glam girl with the big hair, makeup, lipstick,

six 6-

inch pumps, belly chains

,

and the two

–

seater fast cars and the cash. She also loved Jennifer Lopez. When White looked at a photo of herself from when she was 12, she realized

that

she had already developed physically a small waist and bottom heavy like her mom but she was flat-chested.

I couldnt wait to turn 18, get me some boobs … like going bra shopping was so much fun, you couldnt tell me nothing, White said with a laugh. I wanted to look like a woman before my time, in which all of that stuff is going to come with age. You start to fill out, and then you start to thin out and I feel like Im starting to thin out.

But White became more determined to get cosmetic work done while

she was working as

an exotic dancer. She started with butt

injections,shots

then got breast implants and then started getting face

fillers

and lip fillers. The women she saw making the most money were the ones who had all of those things.

Youre looking around and seeing fully developed women like that, youre like I want to look like that

,

,

how am I going to make some money when they got big old booties and I got this little rump? White recalled. I needed a big rump

,

so thats what I went and I got. Video vixens at the time had the breasts and the body and all of that and it was really just to appease the male species, to collect money from them.

After

her she had

cosmetic work, White said her money and opportunities increased. She was known to the public as the beauty with the blond

e

hair, the face piercings, the dimples and tattoos all over her body. She

said that she

loved

her the

results and

that

she felt beautiful and, more important

ly

,

that

it aligned with her vision to look like something out of this world…. I wanted to look non

–

real.

I wanted that Hollywood look, like the Angelina Jolie carved out symmetrical face

, White said

.

I just wanted everything to be perfect and structured, because most of the magazines and the models, they have very symmetrical faces, and the lips needed to be a certain way, but for me

,

I kind of started to go overboard.

The decision to change her life came after she was baptized in the pool at her home

last year

. White posted a video on Instagram in 2022 of a

priest minister

holding her head and back before pushing her underwater. White said she wasnt thinking about anything at the time. After

her baptism she was baptized

, two of her friends

in attendancealso

decided to get into the

baptismal poolwater

too, a moment that makes White smile.

White said

that

she has always had a strong relationship with God

,

but

that

she just needed to come back so that

h

e could really show me some cool stuff.

Its easy to be consumed with your own life and not be praying when you have everything, she said. QUESTION: following sentence doesn’t read off previous one. is she now posting religious-themed comments on instagram, perhaps? if so, suggest recasting the following. if not, transition still needs smoothing out

Nowadays, in between comments on her Instagram posts from fans and some haters and doubters there are comments from more religious-inclined followers

writing offering

prayers and Bible Scriptures.

White says the warm welcome thats come as shes been more open about her Christian faith has included people sending her customized Bibles,

childrens

books for her kids and other books

that

senders say

have

helped them. She also received a doctorate of liberal arts

with from

the Sacramento Theological Seminary and Bible College

earlier

this year.

I never needed anyones welcome into faith, because Im not doing it for them, White said. As long as God knows my heart, thats all that matters. Now

,

if were in a community

,

then we will be in a community together

,

but Im not doing it to get somebodys welcoming.

Thinking about her faith in bigger ways is also one of the reasons she became sober in 2022. White said

that although

she wasnt drinking every day

,

she would binge drink every couple of days.

on and off. In speaking about being sober for over more than a year, White says

the blessing with that is that nothing happened for me to want to change. She

said added that

shes glad she stopped drinking on her

own

terms and without a DUI, hurting someone

,

or

possibly even having

her children being

legally

taken

from her.

She

said people dont often

realize

d

how alcoholism

can could

eventually catch up to

her in her personal life.them in their personal lives

I was drinking, I just had to open up my eyes and realize it, White said. And then not even just in front of people, even in private. A lot of times, we do things in private, or try to hide things from people, but once you start being real with yourself, that’s when you start to really see or realize certain things and your life is just going to get better.

But White had also started

giving herself taking

a more intense look in the mirror and realized

that

she no longer loved the woman she saw. She had been working out but

she

felt like her lips were too big, her breasts were too big and her butt was starting to feel heavy. Something had to change, so she called her doctor. White had her butt reduced. She also had breast reduction surgery and was under anesthesia for

eight and a half 8

hours. Initially

,

her doctors

QUESTION: cq plural?

thought she would need

her breasts lifted a breast lift

but White was concerned about

the

scarring

that would be left behind

. Doctors had to remove her nipples, pull in her skin and then sew around the nipples again.

During a follow-up a week later, her

doctors told her she was healing quickly.

Alt

hough White had never been one to

simplyvideo

document

things her life by video

, she said something compelled her to film

the video of

herself

while

still on pain medication talking about her surgery,

which she posted on Instagram

.

She t

hen

she

went to sleep. She woke up at 4:30

in the morning a.m.

with her phone

virtually

blowing up

with notifications

and assumed

she had

something

or drama washappening had happened

.

But I

nstead

,

she found many supportive comments

across her social media

. The reception on social media gave White the courage to be open and honest about her experience.

So many women have died from surgery, you know, and what I’ve learned is

like [that]

most of the time, we do it for ourselves, but

[that]

nine times out of 10, we do it for other people or men, White said. Its so crazy to me because some men

they

might not like big boobs or they dont love big booties and you went and got a big booty.

Not long after that, White

posted video footage of herself getting her fillers removed on her social media.

The six-minute

long

video is not for the needle phobic, as White films herself

laying lying

down calmly with her eyes closed as a doctor insert

s

a needle into her cheeks and her lips

and even jiggles it around

to dissolve the fillers.

As the video plays,

Viewers can slowly see Whites face turning back to

how

it

s

natural

lyis state

. White has had to go back

for more than one appointment several timesto dissolve everything for additional treatments to remove the fillers

.

In addition, White posted videos on Instagram of her preparing to sleep on the way to her doctors appointments, stopping at a convenience store for snacks along the way while en route to Las Vegas to get some of her tattoos removed. QUESTiON: run-on sentence that doesn’t quite make sense. suggest chopping/recasting, including one of Baphomet, a demon.

The key things

a

wom

a

n considering surgeries

to remove enhancements

need to think about,

according to

White

says

, include finding a reputable

doctor

, not going

abroad

for cheaper rates and

realizing

that complications might not

crop up until

later. She pointed out

that

not every doctor

she’s consulted with

is willing to help repair complications.

This is your body. You might not wake up from this, White said. An anesthesiologist, they could give you too much anesthesia you don’t wake up, there’s just a lot of pain. QUESTION: sentence doesn’t make sense. suggest tweaking/cutting

White said the videos have

made an impact, had an effect,

with some women simply walking up to her and giving her

a

hug

s

. Many have expressed appreciation that she

‘s

talked about her own surgeries. White said she has no regrets about her cosmetic procedures but

she

believes she got lucky. The most complications she had

was were

with her butt shots, when she would sometimes become ill with flu-like symptoms. She said

that

years ago

,

she was in

the a

hospital for a week

due to surgery complication

s. Some of her face fillers

had

migrated.

I’ve had like a lot of women come up to me and say I was literally

like

two weeks out, like I was about to get this surgery and I was like, Nah. I’m good,’ White said. It’s just sad that the girls, even after I posted my surgery, I physically went on my Instagram, on my socials, and I’ve seen women pass away from it and Im like, ‘Yo, how many times are surgeons not going to be careful in their work?’

White went back in late December

for additional breast reduction surgery

. But she posted on

her

Instagram that there

had been were

complications with her left breast becoming encapsulated, with the muscle contracting around her implant. White said she had to keep

some type of

an implant.

inside of her breast because O

therwise,

it her breast

would not be properly shaped.

She said months before she wanted them to be smaller as she hopes for more acting roles.

W

ithin the next few years

she plans to

get out of the reality television world. She couldnt get the size she wanted initially during her first breast reduction surgery because the skin had to heal after the surgery. She emphasizes

that

she wanted them just a little bit smaller

,

and slightly

lower. It was never about being a specific size.

But she hopes this is the last time she has to do any procedures. “If I remove anything else, I’m gonna remove myself,” White joked.