
Ini Edo
She recently had her say via her social media page, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, she actually got married at the age of 26 because she thought that at 31, she’d have been done with childbearing, but she had about six miscarriages and eventually gave up on her dream to bear her own child.
Ini added that resorting to IVF wasn’t a fancy choice for her because she really tried to conceive and deliver her own baby.
Her words, “I got married at the age of 26 because I thought that at 31, I’d have been done with childbearing and I’d have returned and faced my career. I’ve tried, and I’ve had like 6 miscarriages, I don’t like getting into it. It wasn’t a fancy way out for me, I have always wanted to do this. I have tried! I have done IVF, I have lost pregnancies midway through and I know what I have dealt with as a woman.
I never thought I would be someone who had fertility issues but I have had issues carrying pregnancies long term so when it looked like it wasn’t going to happen when I wanted it to happen I looked at how I wasn’t getting younger. I looked at my options and surrogacy came up so I took it and I’m very happy with my decision.
I wanted it to be my child, my egg, so thankfully my eggs are good, so I did that.
Another major reason I opted for a donor is that it scares me so much when I see banter and controversies between a mother and a father over a baby in public forums or when I see the man insisting he wants his child if things don’t work out between both parties.”
WOW.
Nollywood, a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood, is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.
The origin of the term goes 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 of 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.