Rita Batista Describes Family Tradition of Buying Jewelry: ‘To Liberate Black Women’

Rita Batista Describes Family Tradition of Buying Jewelry: ‘To Liberate Black Women’


The Globo presenter also stated that she has never undergone any aesthetic surgery




Rita Batista attracted attention last weekend when she went to Sephora Halloween Ball full of jewels and with gold teeth. In an interview with Earththe Globo presenter said that all the jewels were hers and that the custom of buying gold is something that has been in her family for generations.

“It’s an investment. The black girl works. My grandmother taught me, it was something in my family. Freed black women bought gold to save and free other black women who, even after the abolition of slavery in 1888, were still the property of their masters. It was like that in the family, the Batistas”, says the presenter of It comes from home.



Rita Batista at the Sephora Halloween Ball

What Rita spends on gold, she saves on cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. The journalist said that she is all natural at 46 years old, without ever having undergone any cosmetic intervention.

“I don’t have fillers, I don’t use toxins and I haven’t had plastic surgery. I’m not saying I’ll never do it in my life, but I’m really all natural”, says the presenter, who underlines that she could change her mind in the future and that she has nothing against those who opt for cosmetic procedures.

“It’s my choice. I think I still have this close-up at 46 years old and in a completely natural way. There is no condemnation for anyone who wants to do it. Everything is fine. I don’t have lenses, the teeth are mine. But if I want, one day of my life, that’s fine. It’s not a dictatorship, everyone does what they want.”

Source: Terra

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