"Why I Got Married To A Younger Man" - Actress Blessing Obasi Opens Up

Popular Nollywood actress, Blessing Obasi has opened up about her life as a  married woman and why she chose to marry a younger lover.

In an interview with Vanguard Allure, Blessing who is reportedly in her early 40’s said age is just a number.

Marrying a colleague, did you see it coming?

Absolutely not. Never. I never would have imagined that I’d get married to my colleague or even anyone in entertainment because I used to think men in entertainment cannot stay with one woman, they are cheats. I saw them as promiscuous people and so I never saw it coming at all.

Marrying a younger lover must be tough, what was it like weighing between age and love?

Age is just a number, what matters is the two hearts that beat as one.

What kind of roles would you reject now that you are married?

To be naked, I think that’s the only thing I cannot do, going naked in a film.

As a married woman, what’s your greatest fear?

When people get married, they get so comfortable. It feels like a box that has been ticked but they are not really interested in servicing it as such. You’ve ticked the box and you’ve moved on so what else?

So, I think my greatest fear will be not really nurturing my home, keeping and building my home to be that place I always want to come back to and make it a safe place for my husband.

Sometimes, you see some couples fight like enemies and you begin to question why because, they used to be in love. So, what went wrong?

Like my husband will always say, this one that this love is just doing us, hope tomorrow we would not later say ‘go to your tent O Isreal’ and I just say, ”

We don’t need to work too hard to make this thing, we are already here. And the next thing would be motherhood, that’s what the world expects of you.

With all these fears that will come because I’m a human being, I put all my trust in God because he is our foundation, He’s our essence, He’s everything to us and no matter how tough things get, ‘las las’ I go back to Him to say, God, you are the foundation of this thing, this home and marriage was built upon the solid rock which is, you, Jesus Christ and you alone will teach and navigate this journey with me.

So, I’m taking it one day at a time asking the Holy Spirit to help me.

42-year-old Blessing Jessica Obasi is

married to her colleague, 32-year-old Stan Eze and the couple walked down the aisle on September 11, 2021, in Lagos