Popular Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo has come out to share why she announced her pregnancy.

She recently made this revelation on social media, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to her, she did not want until after delivery like some other celebrities do because she doesn’t follow trends to live her life.

Uche added that she’ll never understand the logic behind a woman hiding her pregnancy when it is meant to be an obvious gift from God.

His words, “My dear, I always like to think that I’m different and I set the pace. You know that makes me who I am. I don’t follow trends. I don’t follow what people do and I don’t know the law behind hiding pregnancy or blessings of God till after you’ve given birth. If you remember quite well then when I was pregnant with Mildred, I announced it at 5 months. I didn’t even hide it and everybody knew that I was pregnant and I birthed my baby and I’m fine. So now this one why will I hide it? What is the logic behind hiding pregnancy, hiding that you’re pregnant, and then announcing out of the blue?”

Do you agree?

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.