Nollywood actress Eniola Badmus has urged Nigerians to stop tearing one another down over their bodies. She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.
Lamenting about critics constantly mocking her plus-size body over the years, Eniola revealed that she finds it shocking to see that the same people are now attacking her slimmer physique.
Reflecting on her incredible five-year transformation from 170kg to 83kg, the moviestar urged her fellow citizens to always choose kindness while relating to others online.
Her words, “Five years ago, I weighed 170KG. Today, in 2026, I weigh 83KG. That didn’t happen overnight.
It took years of discipline, sacrifice, pain, consistency, tears, setbacks, and choosing my health every single day.
What exactly do you want from me?
Just because I don’t respond to the insults doesn’t mean they don’t hurt. It doesn’t mean I’m weak. It doesn’t mean I don’t have feelings. I’m human.
I’ve done something remarkable. Going from 170KG to 83KG isn’t a small achievement.”
Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.
The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.
Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.
Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.
