Ex-air hostess Martina Big,
29, who has size 32S boobs that cost
£50,000, decided to change her skin tone earlier this year, vowing to get
"darker and darker and see what the limits are”.
The GERMAN glamour model
who used extreme tanning injections to transform herself into a black woman
says she can't wait to go to Africa because "the food is tasty".
Yesterday she appeared on
the Maury TV show in the US and defended her bizarre transformation, telling
the audience: "I am black. That is my race.
"I can’t wait to go to
Africa because I hear the food is tasty."
Maury asked her:
"Martina, do you think you’re a black person?"
She replied: "Yes, but
80%. I have to learn a lot. I know.”
The host also asked Martina
- who was sporting a chain saying "Black Girls Rock" - if her actions
were offensive to black people.
She said: "No, I don’t
want to attack them. I know some feel attacked, but it’s not my intention to
attack somebody, and it’s not media-attention stuff."
She added: "I do it
for myself."
Earlier this month Martina,
who says her goal is to become the official Guinness World Record holder for
having the largest breasts, revealed why she overhauled her image.
She said: “My parents and
my younger sister died in 2011 in an accident. It happened on a road along the
Moselle River."
Rather than thinking about
that fateful day, Martina says she focuses on fond family memories.
"We drove for example
once with the car non-stop from the Eifel to the Cote d'Azur, simply to get out
of the rain and into the sun,” she said.
"My father was so
tired after the drive that he slept the entire day on the beach and burnt his
entire back. But the red quickly turned into brown.
"When I now look at my
dark brown skin, I think of this."
Martina, who has to have
bras custom-made to boost her cleavage, posed in front of the iconic Hollywood
sign in July and said: “Last time I visited this with blonde hair and white
skin - and now I'm a black woman with African hair."
Her makeover has been
criticised by the Race Equality Foundation, who believe she has a "limited
understanding" of the challenges ethnic minority groups face.
In April, Martina revealed
she was having tanning injections and using a 50-tube sunbed that is installed
in her home in a bid to look “African dark”.
“At first, my fans were
irritated, saying ‘why did you do this?!” but that is because they have never
seen a white girl change her skin to African dark before,” she said.
“But now, they have got
used to it, they are excited like me. They say, ‘oh, I like your style! Go darker!
Go darker!’”
She added: “Yes, I have the
skin of an African girl. But I am not pretending to be a black girl.”
Jabeer Butt, Deputy Chief
Executive at the Race Equality Foundation, told The Sun Online: "It's a
very sad and disappointing situation really if people assume it's just skin
colour that makes you black.
"She has a very
limited understanding of what it means to be black or an ethnic minority today,
and the challenges faced.
"She has a very
stilted understanding of what it means to be black - you have to worry about
her and the people she surrounds herself with.
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