Uhmmmmmmmmmmm, fame comes with all its trappings and of course, privacy is no longer a luxury for celebrities, this is an excerpt of the interview Nollywood actress, Rose Odika granted Nigerian Tribune.
Pains and gains of being a celebrity.
The gains are more than the pains. There were times I found myself in situations that I knew if I were not a star, I won’t go scot free. When you are on the queue in the bank and you are recognised, they would say madam, step forward. It’s lovely. The negative effect is that when a guy takes you to his mother that this is the girl I want to marry the mother would say “ iyawo aye, this popular woman, you won’t enjoy her o.” That is why most actresses are not married. That is why some of us are divorced.
The gains are more than the pains. There were times I found myself in situations that I knew if I were not a star, I won’t go scot free. When you are on the queue in the bank and you are recognised, they would say madam, step forward. It’s lovely. The negative effect is that when a guy takes you to his mother that this is the girl I want to marry the mother would say “ iyawo aye, this popular woman, you won’t enjoy her o.” That is why most actresses are not married. That is why some of us are divorced.
I
am a victim of that. Most men cannot cope with a celebrity wife, they
get hurt when they go out with their wives and the wives are recognised
while they are not. It hurts their egos. The major reason I have not
remarried is that most men that I come across want me to drop acting and
I cannot. They love you but they cannot cope with your popularity. They
can’t take you somewhere secretly, everybody will know you are there
and a majority of them are married. It is not easy at my age to find
somebody who is not married and they don’t want a popular woman because
they don’t want their wives to hear about it. So that is a price to pay
for being famous.
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