Nollywood actress Funke Akindele-Bello, has advised young ladies not to be pressured into getting married.
The movie star stated this in an interview with Chude Jideonnwo while recounting how she coped after her first marriage with Kehinde Oloyede collapsed.
According to the actress, societal pressure influenced her into her first marriage; stating that she lost some good deals as a result of the trauma that followed after the marriage collapsed.
She said “You know, I just wanted to get married. I want to do things right, have children and all that. And I went into the (first) marriage, it didn’t work fine. And it ended in a very bad way, in social media, the noise was everywhere. I was actually filming and somebody called me and told me, I wanted to die.
“You know I cried, lost some good deals then. But I didn’t let it break me. What I did was that I collected all the scripts from the east. I would wake up by 3:30 am, and by 5 am, I’m out to the airport, waiting for the 7:30 am flight to Enugu. That was how I survived.”
“As a young lady out there, do not be pressured to get married. Get married because you want to get married, get married because you love him, you want to spend the rest of your life with him,” she added.
“Don’t get married because mummy and daddy are saying get married or your friend just got married, have children because you want to have children, you want to be blessed with children, you love children.
“Don’t have children because the society will say ‘ah she’s barren oh, 12 years, 6 years e never marry’ ignore the gossips, ignore the naysayers, give them ‘sorry the middle finger, I don’t care’. Yes, ignore because you have your life, do what makes you happy.”
In 2012, Funke Akindele-Bello married Oloyede, a Lagos-based businessman. The marriage lasted for only 413 days before the marriage collapsed.
In 2016, the actress got married to Abdulrasheed Bello, the Nigerian songwriter and rapper better known as JJC Skillz.
The couple celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on Monday.
