- Mercy Eke, a Nigerian reality TV personality, is open to having children outside of marriage.
- During a podcast, she expressed that she would keep a child if she became pregnant before marriage.
- She clarified that while she is open to this possibility, it is not something she actively desires.
Nigerian reality TV personality Mercy Eke has revealed that she is open to the idea of having children outside of marriage.
During a recent podcast appearance, the Big Brother Naija Season 4 winner shared that if she were to become pregnant before tying the knot, she would choose to keep the child, even though it’s not something she actively hopes for.
Eke also expressed that having a child out of wedlock wouldn’t negatively impact her, suggesting that societal stigma around single motherhood mainly affects women facing financial difficulties.
“I won’t go the extra miles to get pregnant out of wedlock. But if it just happens, I would leave it and I would have my baby. I want three kids; two girls and one boy or three girls. I love female children.
“Even if don’t get married, I would still have kids. What most people don’t know is that the stigma of being a single mother only applies to women who don’t have things going well for them.
“The women [single mothers] that are shattering glasses, men are begging them for marriage. I can get married tomorrow if I want to. But what I want in a man, I have not seen it. It’s not like there is no suitor. There are plenty… So, even if I have a baby, I would still see a man,” she expressed.
