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Truth's Table

BlackGirlMagic Interview: Celai West

Truth's Table

Truth's Table

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Celai West, pronounced “sah-LAY”, joins Ekemini at the table. Celai is a quirky ten year old STEMgirl who is making waves in the fashion, runway, vlogging and acting industry, all while proving you can never be too cool for school. She began print modeling when she was five, doing runway shows when she was six, started acting and became the CEO of her own t-shirt line, TheChattyChick.com, at seven, walked in NYFW for the first time at eight, had her first viral video at nine and co-authoring her first book at ten. Celai has worked with major brands such as Target, Walmart, Amazon, Gap, Disney and Allstate and was the leading lady in Willy Williams’ music video “The Voodoo Song” that has been viewed over 18 million times! She also appeared in “I Am My Own Mother” which was selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. She is looking forward to doing more acting and challenging herself on set. Celai West has appeared on ten magazine covers, published inside several magazine issues and newspapers and many of her images, as well as videos, been shared on social media in viral numbers. Please be sure to check out her Press page. Celai currently has two viral runway videos that, to date, have been viewed more than 17 million times collectively. She can regularly be seen walking the runway among an all adult lineup as well as coaching her runway techniques. After several unpleasant experiences with stylists who were unknowledgeable on how to style her hair while on set, Celai and her mom teamed up to create their own hair tutorials. They expected to help show styling and hair care techniques for ethnic textured hair but were pleasantly surprised to find that their videos were a hit and over 6 have received viral numbers.Celai was recently welcomed to the production team of The Industry Fashion Show “T.I.F.S” as their Runway Coordinator, making her the youngest show producer. West looks forward to continuing to breaking barriers while working hard in the classroom and prove that models ARE indeed smart too. Please be sure to subscribe to her blog to keep abreast of all the great things she’s up to! Follow Celai West on social media: https://www.Instagram.com/celaiwest https://www.Facebook.com/celaiwest https://www.Twitter.com/celaiwest https://www.Tumblr.com/celaiwest http://www.CelaiWest.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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Hey all, it's

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Sakemini, and it's Christina.

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From Trust Table, and you all have been asking us ways that you can actually

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partner and support Trust Table, and we have now created a Patreon.

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and partner with this work. Oh, yeah. Hey y'all, all, Midwives of Culture for Grace and Truth. I'm McKemini. This table is built by

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Black woman and four black women. So welcome to the table, sisters. How y'all do it?

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All right y'all. So, you know, typically my sisters are at the table with me, but today I'm

1:08.3

flying solo because, well, Michelle just received a tornado warning in st louis so let's

1:15.6

keep hurting their prayers please for safety not just her but for all of st louis

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uh... and the midwest who is who have been uh... just pummeled with tornadoes at the moment.

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And also keep Christina in your prayers as well as she has been busy, busy, busy, busy with activities

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with the kids and just life has just been hectic so it is me at the table

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But of course we never ever leave y'all without at's table because we have a special guest because it is

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black girl magic so cue the charms and I am so excited about our guest today, y'all, because we have Sala West at the table.

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Welcome to the table Sala, how you doing, girl?

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I'm good, how are you?

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Good, good, good, good,. Y'all I am so hype. We have been wanting like a little sister to come to the table and it has finally happened. Let me tell y'all just a little bit about Saleh West,

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just in case you don't know.

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