By Felicia Odom 23.5.2026
Reality TV star Queen Mercy Atang sparked an online frenzy when she wore a dress weaved into 500 loaves of bread to the 12th Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, AMVCA, recently.
Speaking in a BBC interview Saturday, Atang revealed that she was choking inside while wearing the dress designed by Tianah Empire.
“You know, I literally cried while wearing that dress. I said, first I need to catch my breath. I didn’t know the kind of weight that cloth carried.
“The first few seconds when I wore the dress, I cried before I said, ‘Yeah, bring it. I’m ready to wear the cloth,” Atang said.
She stated that she was shocked when her dressing made the internet break.
“I did not expect my dress to go viral like this. I did not. I just felt like people would talk and say, ‘Why did she wear bread?’ Some people would like it, some people wouldn’t like it, right? But then I saw that BBC carried it — all the international global TV stations carried it. Me, myself, I was shocked.
“Tiana Empire made the dress — the king of fashion. My own part was just, ‘Mama, is my dress is ready? She said, ‘It’s not ready, but don’t worry, it will soon be ready’.
“It took her like weeks to get the dress ready. But for me, the weight of that dress almost broke my waist. I won’t lie to you. If you check my back, I have serious wounds because that bread is very, very heavy.”