Formerly Known as Blac Chyna

From big booty bikini pictures to evangelic easter editorials Angela White, more widely known as Blac Chyna has begun a massive transition into a new persona. She’s promoting this new image and is bringing us along on the ride through her social media platforms. White has made drastic changes such as removing fillers, reducing her butt and breast size, and removing a ‘demonology’ Baphomet tattoo. She even graced our timelines with a symbolic photoshoot in front of a cross with captions straight from the bible on Easter Sunday. The response to this drastic rebrand has been overwhelmingly positive. Blac Chyna seems to be the villain we want to root for, from seeing her as a sexy video vixen to infiltrating the Kardashian clan.
In our current society, we often see celebrities transition into new phases as things may no longer serve them. Everybody hated her a few years ago for being the face of a skin-bleaching company. She was later exposed for not playing the traditional mother role almost exactly a year ago when her children’s fathers confirmed they keep the kids the majority of the week and pay for their schooling. She was also largely known as the highest earner on only fans, in a time when the stigma against sex workers continues to run rampant.
In my opinion, we should be more careful to question the authenticity of drastic changes in our public figures. Being a mass comm major in public relations has made me skeptical when learning even Instagram baddies are more strategic than we sometimes give them credit for. After going under fire for having a baby with a much younger man Britney Renner has made a similar transition to a more conservative persona. It seems that when one image stops working for them, they have to make a change so that they don’t lose their current audience and have the opportunity to gain a new one.