By Chinedu Nwaduru, ABH PRESS
Diagnosed with a uterine condition called Adenomyosis three years ago, nollywood actress Nse Ekpe Etim said she removed her womb so she could “live a normal life”
Her words: “I was told I couldn’t have kids,” she said to the now sombre audience.
“And so, I had to have a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) to make me have a life again and to stop going through what I was going through. And I’m literarily telling women and men, it really doesn’t matter if you can’t bear children. What really matters is what you would do for the world, for the universe.”
The actress recalled the moment the doctor told her she would have to remove her uterus to live a normal life, noting that: “Tears dropped and then my husband squeezed my hand. It was reassuring there was someone there and it was telling me that this is reality, my reality.”
Speaking further, the actress said: “I didn’t think there was any point anymore because my society taught me that I have to be a mother to be appreciated and every time I went online, I would have one troll or two say ‘you never born?”
“But I’m thankful that that didn’t break me,” she added even as she expressed excitement about her acting career, saying: “I’m thankful for Nollywood.
“I push my pain through every single character,” she said.
The actress revealed that prior to the hysterectomy, she badly wanted to have children.
“I wanted a set of twins,” she said boisterously.
“I wanted children. I wanted so badly I was brooding forever. Femi, I did IVF. I tried. Femi, I did everything our society wants every woman to do so that we can be accepted as women,”she added.
Edited from NaijaNews.com