Mercy Eke, a Nigerian reality TV personality, has stated that she wouldn’t mind having children out of wedlock.
The Big Brother Naija Season 4 winner stated in a recent podcast interview that even though she is not looking forward to having a child, she would keep it if she got pregnant before getting married.
Eke stated that she was confident that becoming pregnant outside of marriage would not have an impact on her, as the stigma associated with single mothers is limited to low-income women.
“I won’t go the extra miles to get pregnant out of wedlock. But if it just happens, I would leave it and I would have my baby. I want three kids; two girls and one boy or three girls. I love female children.
“Even if don’t get married, I would still have kids. What most people don’t know is that the stigma of being a single mother only applies to women who don’t have things going well for them.
“The women [single mothers] that are shattering glasses, men are begging them for marriage. I can get married tomorrow if I want to. But what I want in a man, I have not seen it. It’s not like there is no suitor. There are plenty… So, even if I have a baby, I would still see a man,” she expressed.
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Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, better known by her stage as Tems, has disclosed the career path she would have taken had she not entered the music business.
Tems revealed that if she hadn’t been a musician, she would have become an accountant or a maths teacher during a Tuesday interactive session with fans on X.
“If music didn’t work, what else do you think you would be doing today?,” a fan asked.
Tems responded, “I might have been an accountant or a mathematics teacher.”
The multiple Grammy-winning singer has previously revealed that she quit her job as a digital marketer in January 2018 to focus on her music career.
She released her debut single ‘Mr Rabel’ in July 2018. The song gained some traction in Nigeria. However, she rose to prominence after being featured on Wizkid’s 2020 single ‘Essence’, which peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart following the release of the remix version with Justin Bieber.
