Screen goddess, Mercy Aigbe has opened up on why she decided not to have children with her second husband, Kazim Adeoti.
The movie producer and her husband tied the knot after Mercy’s seven-year prior marriage to her ex-husband, Lanre Gentry. Though had a daughter with another man before her marriage to Mr Gentry which also produced a son.
In a recent interview with The Nation, the mother of two is now explaining her sincere refusal to have children with her present husband, who also has four children with his first wife.
During the interview, Mercy was first asked “Let’s talk about motherhood with a teenager and a young adult, how has it been?”
“So, my daughter is so grown, she’s an adult now and you know she has been far away in Canada studying and at times when I look at her, I wonder aloud saying so, this is my daughter who is all grown up and it feels like I am getting old.
To me, aging is a blessing but I want to be a baby girl for life so when I look at her, she reminds me that I am no longer a baby anymore.
Another thing is before when she did something wrong, I would shout at her, but now, I can’t shout at her because I remind myself that she’s now an adult.
We have to dialogue and I would rather give her that liberty to make some decisions herself so I don’t influence all her decisions.
I just have to be there to guide her and make sure she doesn’t make mistakes although mistakes are allowed if it’s not too much, it’s fine because you learn from it.
Then she was asked, “Are you still going to have more kids considering your young marriage?”
She said:
“You know someone asked if I was going to have another child and I am like no, maybe I would adopt but for now, I don’t know and we are good and to God be the glory.”
