I’m Not A Single Mother By Choice – Olaide Oyedeji

Nollywood actress Olaide Oyedeji has opened up about her experience as a single mother. The moviestar recently revealed that she wouldn’t have believed if anyone told her she would have two baby daddies.

Speaking during a podcast video shared on her YouTube channel, Olaide shared that she is a single mother by force and not by choice.

She warned women to be very careful before getting pregnant, stressing the need for them to ensure their children are not left without fathers after delivery.

“I am a single mother by force and not by choice. I want to give birth to a celebrity who is a single mother by choice. Do not because for any reason, please a guy and you say you want to use a child to. There are many ways you can love someone without giving birth for them. If you think you’re that special, you’re not going to tie your destiny to giving birth to a celebrity.

If anyone had told me that I would have two baby daddies, I would have denied it,” she said.

Her comment has stirred reactions online, with many commending her honesty about the challenges of raising kids without a partner.

Olaide, who currently lives in Germany, has in the past spoken about the struggles she faced as a single mum.

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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.