Star actress, Eniola Ajao, has revealed that she was a student of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, when she got pregnant at 20.
Ajao’s story is similar to that of her celebrated colleague, Genevieve Nnaji, who also had a child very early.
She noted that she faced a lot of apprehension but she kept the pregnancy, which today has become a boucing male youth.
Speaking on Talk to B podcast, she recalled: “Having to get pregnant at 20 was a bit dramatic; you just feel like the whole world is coming against you. You probably want to kill yourself or die at some point, and you would probably not be able to get married again.
“So you want to hide it from your parents and the public. At that time, it was considered a thing of shame. Not that it was a thing of shame for me, but it was considered to be early.
“A lot of people got married at 17, but where I come from, they want you to finish your school, graduate, and do a couple of things. I was already in Yabatech when it happened.
“Thinking that probably you may not get married, somebody calling you a baby mama, and you do not want to get stigmatised. Just close friends and family members knew about it”.
