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Mbau showed up at the True Love magazine's 40th anniversary do this month minus her usual bravado.

Mbau looked nothing like the lively person Mbau people knew She has gotten got rid of her weave, and has gone blond.

What's more, she was reserved, almost "invisible", with some of her "die-hard fans" only recognising her long after she'd slid quietly into the venue.

"People think because they do not see me in tabloids anymore, I have faded," she said. "Some say I am boring. Some say I cannot get rich men to sponsor my expensive lifestyle anymore. Some say men do not want me anymore. They don't know that I decided to change my lifestyle out of my will."

Mbau said in the past she thought she was "happening", but confessed that she was under pressure and feared fading.

"The new look is my being content with who I am. I have come to realise that hair and flashy things do not make a person. I have done it all. People know everything about me, including my nakedness. I did not gain anything from all that. The only thing I walked away with was shame. I am doing this to embrace myself."

She said she is seeing a businessman .

Asked how she was coping financially, Khanyi said she was making money through her music. "I'm with Kalawa (producer Oskido's record company). I perform almost every week. My self-worth has increased. I don't have to fear that someone will come and chase me out of the house he is paying for, or take his car."

- This article was published in print on 11 May 2012

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May 14, 2012

salvation911

i must say i've always liked you as a person khanyi and im glad you enjoying your own money now. I dont think i like new look though but maybe ill get used to it.
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May 14, 2012

ntebo

That look makes her look like more than a gold digger
Platinum digger
trying to impress mamazala
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May 14, 2012

Dimples-Beaytifulle

This girl has come far and has done it all. We all learn from our mistakes and I think a new look will do you good girl. Only if you could sing............hmmm.
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May 14, 2012

Rakgadi-Tabeya

Re tla boka ha di oroha phela wena Khanyi ha o tshepise niks. Mara that blonde look nkare o na le phepelo-tlase, for me it's a NO.
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May 14, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

You look like a low class cheap H00ker
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May 14, 2012

Ms-B

All the best with your music career miss Mbau but i still think you cant sing though.
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May 14, 2012

Ann

its good to be content with yourself, big ups gal
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May 14, 2012

Cubanlady

Once a hooker, always a hooker. Men have used and left her. It's history now. She should be ashamed of herself, how she hook men around her little finger and break families. She thought it was a game. Now men are no longer interested in an overly used punana. Those "rich men" have left her and seek greener pastures elsewhere! The woman should stop being in denial as she's scared that her dangerous game is catching up with her.
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May 14, 2012

Shakesaremoving

Abantu abafana naboKhanyi Mbau, why are thei getting such media coverage? what is special about them? what positive or value are they adding to our society really? Today we are facing a serious moral degeneration in our society, yet we give people who may not be posistive role models to our kids such publicity and call them "Celebrities". what is there to celebrate about the sometimes promiscous lives that these people are leading? Come on now Sowetan. Its true what they say, good news is no news at all. When something that is mind boggling or shocking happens in our society, this newspaper is the first one to cover it and on editorial comment, they go on with how they want "this cancer to be uprooted in our society. Hayi, bafowethu, animeni man!
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May 14, 2012

Galfrend

You go gal! We all make mistakes nobody is perfect ...... Love you lots!
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