A Page Out Of My Diary

2019 is fast drawing to a close. Adulting, as usual, has been kicking our behinds. This month, instead of dwelling on the negatives, we choose to revel in Pearl Thusi’s travel anecdotes. The spirited actress and TV presenter waxes lyrical about the power of recovery time and the many lessons travel has taught her!

- Kemong Mopedi

Pearl Thusi is the embodiment of being comfortable in one’s skin. That she can randomly break into a twerk or dance up a storm outside an international airport, all while slowing down traffic, is classic of her. Once, during a 2013 photoshoot and interview for City Press’ iMagazine, she nonchalantly slipped out of her shoot ensemble back into her own clothes — completely unbothered that she was a bra and panty away from being naked in front of a journo she had just met. At our November cover shoot — at the Cradle Moon Lakeside Game Lodge in Muldersdrift — I joke about how that 2013 incident scarred me. “Yini, do you have a crush on me?” she asks wittily, before inviting me to watch her change into the first swimsuit ensemble of the day.