With four beautiful children and a
rock-solid marriage, sexy actress, Omotola Jalaide- Ekeinde, is a success story,
especially in an area where some of her contemporaries and colleagues have
failed miserably – the matrimonial department .She is one of the few actresses
who have successfully combined the rigors and excruciating schedule of acting
while keeping the home front stable and happy.
She has been married to her pilot
husband – Mr. Ekeinde-for over a decade, and the union is still defined by love
and deep feeling of affection. Not for her has been the usual drama of rumored
infidelity and emotional backstabbing that seem to define relationships and
marriages in Nollywood. Of all the scoops and tips on Nollywood’s shenanigans
that we are daily deluged with, none has ever been linked to Omotola.
When the sexy actress visited New
York sometime ago, and, at a reception I had arranged for her at the tropical
grill Restaurant/Lounge York, I informed her that I would love to have an
honest and candid interview with her, with the sole purpose of finding out what
has been the source of her martial success and the challenges she may have
faced remaining true to her values, and vows in an industry where such vows are
sacrificed at the altar of conspicuous consumption edged on by the rich and the
powerful who regard popular actresses as trophy acquisitions.
I told Omosexy as she fondly called that my interview
with her was going to be decidedly different – it was going to dwell primarily
on her personal life and nothing else – a declaration she had enthusiastically
agreed to. “Thank God it is going to be different from all those hackneyed and
generic line of questionnaire I have been used to”, she told me as we sat in
her hotel room.
I started by asking her what had
been the secret of her success in marriage. “I have been favored by the Lord”,
she began. “I am truly blessed to have been married to one-of-a-kind husband
who appreciates what I do, encourages me to excel in my craft. Let me tell you
this: I take my marriage very seriously. If you treat your marriage with levity
and careless abandon, you will reap the reward for such bad behavior. My
husband is an angel, brought by God to my life, and it has been a blessing
having him as my husband.” culled from Vanguard


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