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Yoruba-speaking Nollywood actresss, Iyabo Ojo, has disclosed her first marriage
happened only because she was pregnant.
According
to the 38-year-old actress, her husband married her only because she was
pregnant.
Speaking
with Hip TV recently, the mother of two said her career had nothing to do the
break down of her marriage as she wasn’t a celebrity when she tied the knot.
She
said:
“If
i had problems with my marriage, it had nothing to do with my acting
profession. i wasn’t even a star when i got married and when i got out of my marriage,
i still wasn’t a star. Up until i got married, i’d only featured in one film,
satanic, and i pulled out of the industry the moment i got married.
“So
i wasn’t acting in those years that i was married. I was a full-time housewife
and businesswoman. I actually chose to come back into acting because i had
started having issues with my marriage and knew it wasn’t making me happy.
“And
i knew that wasn’t the way i wanted to live my life. yes, there are lots of
problems in celebrity marriages; and the reason is that as celebrities, we live
in our own world. We work hard a lot, moving from one location to the other;
and usually when a female in the industry meets a male guy who just comes from
the blues, he usually comes with a lot of loaded lies and sweeps some of these
colleagues of mine off their feet.
“And
they in turn are not patient enough to study these guys well enough, because
‘society expects them to be married.’ So people tend to marry for specific
reasons, and as far as i am concerned, you mustn’t be able to define the reason
you love someone to the extent of marriage.
“Once
you get married for a reason, then there is a problem. i got married because i
was pregnant. that was a reason. My husband married me because i was pregnant
for him; that was also a reason. Most men get married to ladies in the industry
because of the celebrity aura around them, only to realise that there is a lot
to marriage than that.
“They
also discover that in reality, these ladies aren’t as perfect as the screens
project them and then the men cannot get used to the ego that comes with the
profession and typically want to be the man and break those wings. And if the
woman is such that wouldn’t be tamed, then there is a crisis and a collision.”
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