‘Prioritise Having Kids Over Marriage’ -Laide Bakare Tells Career-oriented Single Women, Explains Why
Popular Nollywood actress, Laide Bakare has advised young career-driven women to prioritise having children over marriage while starting out in their career.
The single mum disclosed this in an interview on a recent episode of Nollywood on Radio, stressing that if they work on it early, they can have the rest of their lives to focus on their career advancement.
Citing her personal experience, the actress argued that marriage is not necessary to start a family. She said:
“If you are aspiring to be a superstar, successful in your career as a young girl, I would advise you to get married and have kids early.
“So that you can have the rest of your years to push your career because the family area is very important. I know that getting married very early may lead to divorce so I mean starting a family early.
“Maybe I should retract that because I do not mean marriage. I never thought of marriage. The time I had my first child, I just wanted a baby.”
The mother of three clarified that her advice wasn’t about marriage but starting a family, emphasizing the importance of having children.
“So the advice is not to get married early but start having a family,” she said.
Bakare also revealed that she had a rift with colleague Eniola Badmus, who misunderstood the advice as a reference to her being childless.
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“Recently, I saw Eniola Badmus so we wanted to continue our quarrel and she said I called her childless.
“So I told her I meant and only said start a family. I meant to start a family not go and get married, just have your kids. Not necessarily marriage but at least have kids.”