I POST a little revealing picture on Instagram and my ‘booty’ is on the front pages on a Monday morning; Jesus, there are better things to talk about, says Iris Kaingu.
And Iris says she intends to join active politics once she acquires her masters’ degree.
Speaking to Radio Phoenix presenter, Luchi during a talk show yesterday, Iris said she does not understand why her body attracts so much media attention.
“Well, the thing is I post maybe a little bit revealing; I mostly post pictures on my Instagram and that’s my private page with my private friends, so I consider it very rude for someone to take my picture and publicise it in a negative way. I mean, we all go to the beach, we all go out to the club, we all go where we have a good social life.
I’m just a person just like everyone else who has a social life, so I consider it very hypocritical where you take somebody’s picture and put it on to The Post newspaper or the Times or whatever media it is and say something negative,” she said.
“For example, that Dubai picture and well, my booty was on the front page on a Monday morning. I mean there are better things to talk about, Jesus! How many things are happening in Zambia that people could talk about? But then I figured, probably it’s just people being people and hating so…”
Iris said she always ‘blows people out of the water’ when she walks into a room.
“Most of the time (when I walk into a room full of people), it’s mixed feelings and I hear that people judge me before they can know me and the first thing you see when you walk into a room is ‘Oh my God, it’s her, it’s her’ and you see people poking each other but in an excited way. So that gives me a challenge to say ‘let me blow them out of the water’, and I usually do,” she said.
Iris said she felt bad about the fact that she was the only one prosecuted when she had made the video with her boyfriend.
“The police claimed that they didn’t find him in this little controversy. I think they might have just lost his address or something. When I think about it now, I am glad that we were not joint in that little thing. At the time it was happening, I thought ‘why is it just me? There was a second person’. But I realised that he has just faded into oblivion and I have this stage you know, after the rain has fallen, the thunder has gone, I am still me and I feel like I am very privileged to have a large social media following and too many people want to be in my business,” Iris said.
She narrated that her stint in prison was sad and she would wish to help prisoners.
“The first cause which I want to do in charity work is to help prisoners, prison welfare, as a person who has been to prison. I feel that they are just human beings like us and their only right that is supposed to be taken away from them is the right to freedom,” Iris said.
She further advised young people to desist from recording themselves while having sex because it was supposed to be private.
“I would say that, well, no matter how many times you can say to someone, people tend to do whatever it is they want to do but I would like to show myself as an example as to what could happen if something like that landed in the wrong hands and I would say that they should not record themselves having sex, I guess? These things are meant to be private and even my own privacy has been taken away from me so much that I feel that’s not the way I intended it to happen,” she said.
Meanwhile, the education minister’s daughter said she would like to join active politics after school.
“And in three years’ time, I will be 27, gosh! And I hope that by then, I would have finished my masters career, which I am doing right now and fully plunge myself into politics,” she said.
Iris was condemned when she, together with her unidentified college boyfriend, produced a sex video which was leaked and led to her expulsion from the Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies.
The 24-year-old was convicted by magistrate Prince Mwiinga and fined K10,000 for the obscene video, a judgement which some critics said was not harsh enough.
