Funke Akindele, a well-known Nollywood actress, has admitted that the reason her first marriage failed was because she hurried into it in response to social expectations.
In an old interview with media celebrity Chude Jidenowo that has lately reappeared online, she made this admission.
She said that she only wanted to settle down and start a family because she was feeling pressure, but the marriage tragically terminated after a year.
She described how she overcame this difficult time in her life by utilizing work as a diversion and gave advice to single women to marry because they want to not just for societal pressure.
She said;
“I have never addressed this issue but I will do now to encourage ladies that are pressured to get married. Please calm down and take your time because if you rush in, you rush out…that is the lesson learnt….I just wanted to get married then, have children because I was being pressurized by society, here and there….and then it didn’t work out and ended in a bad way….I was filming when the news broke on social media, I wanted to die, i lost some good deals and all but i didn’t let it break me….”
She added, “I channeled my energy into work, made money and i saved a lot, i will wake up early to work….there will always be bad times but you will survive, don’t let it weigh you down because it will pass and because you serve a living God…there are times anger and jealousy will come, but don’t let it eat you up, as a young lady don’t be pressured into marriage, marry cos you love him and want to be with him not cos the society and everyone is pressuring you to, ignore the naysayers…..do what makes you happy…”
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