‘Pressure ya social media made me live in one bedroom house’ – Pritty Vishy says 2 years after leaving Kibera

Content creator Purity Vishenwa, popularly known as Pritty Vishy, opened up about how social media pressure influenced her to move into a one-bedroom apartment despite the financial strain it caused.

“Enyewe I am not where I want to be, but one thing is I always trusted the process,” she shared, reflecting on her progress.

She reminisced about living in a bedsitter for the first time after moving out of a mud-thatched house in Kibera slums.

“I loved this house with everything in me because you can imagine from kuishi kwa nyumba za matope to this, heeeeey it was a big deal,” Vishy described her first experience living in a bedsitter.

Vishy also revealed that some former classmates looked down on her living situation, criticizing her for living in a bedsitter despite her celebrity status, which made her feel reluctant to host visitors.

“My mum was so proud of me but my former classmates were like unaishi bedsitter na wewe ni ‘celeb’. This made me not to welcome people in my house,” she said.

Social media pressure eventually led Pritty Vishy to move to a one-bedroom, even though it was beyond her budget.

She admits moving between two one-bedroom apartments, staying for only three days in one and a month in the other, before returning to a more affordable bedsitter.

“Weeeeeh nishaiwaambia vile pressure ya social media made me live in a one bedroom house for 3 days na nikahama? Nishai waambia vile niliishi Tena one bedroom ingine for one month nikaama? Alafu sasa nikaona sitaezana na hii pressure nikatafta kabedsitter kangu polite. Heeeeeeeeeh you uys I have a lot to tell you juu kaiiiiii life mmmmmmmmh,” she shared.

Pritty Vishy moved out of Kibera slums for the first time in her life in 2022.

The vicenarian explained that most people in the slum thought she was rich because of her newfound fame and this posed a security threat to her as she could have been easily targeted by thugs.

Vishy also revealed that traders were exploiting her because of the misguided notion that she was rich. The controversial content creator said shop owners in the slum hiked prices for her whenever she went to buy items.

“Watu wa mtaa walikua wanajua nko na pesa. So ikafika mahali it was never safe for me. Coz ata nkienda hivi kununu kitu imagine hii kitu najua ni pesa fulani lakini ntapandishiwa you can imagine.

(The people in Kibera thought I was rich. It got to a point where I didn’t feel safe anymore. Many times I went to buy something at the shop the owners inflated the prices even when it was obvious the price was standard everywhere),” Pritty Vishy said.

In Kibera, Pritty Vishy lived in a shack but nonetheless, she was very proud of her house. She used to shoot her TikTok and Instagram videos from her single-room mud-walled house in the slum.

Vishy lamented that she found her new neighbourhood too quiet for her because she was so used to living in the ghetto where the noise was part of a normal life.

“Siku ya kuanza kuhamia huku ilikua tricky coz sijazoea environment, nimzeoa pale kuna dunda dunda nimezua pale kuna watu wengi . Huku venye nlikuja nka notice unakutana na mtu mmoja mmoja, wawili kwa barabara. Kibera unakutana na squad hadi unaogopa but I was used to it since nikue mdogo mamangu amelelewa Kibera, mimi nimelelewa Kibera so I was used to it.

(The first days that I shifted here it was so tricky because am not used to this kind of environment. I am used to noise and people. Here I noticed I was only meeting one or two people on the road. In Kibera there were always groups of people on the road, it scared me but I was used to it since I was born and raised in the ghetto. My mother too was raised in Kibera),” she said.

For Pritty Vishy, navigating the pressures of fame and financial reality underscores her determination to transform her life story.

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