Vanguard recently conducted an interview with female celebrities – such as Uche Jumbo – married to white husbands…enjoy!
I am attracted to his openness –
Anita Hogan
Precisely on October 18, 2006, few
friends and family members of Anita Hogan, Nigerian actress and former
Gulder Ultimate Search contestant gathered at the registry of Eti Osa Local
Government Area in Ikoyi, Lagos for her wedding. Indeed, it was a great turning
point for the dark-skinned actress amid the nude pictures scandal that almost
cost her life.
Fortunately for her, Ted Mark, the
man at the centre of the scandalous pictures eventually walked her down the
aisle. Although, Mr. Ted Mark had once dabbled into marriage, which produced
three grown up kids, it wasn’t a hitch for the talented actress who also had
gone ahead to make a beautiful family with her Dutch husband with two lovely
kids.
Wondering how she copes being
married to a foreigner who is almost twice her age? She disclosed in an
interview, “I have learnt to speak Dutch. I never believed I would end up with
a white guy. It just happened. I am attracted to his openness and the fact that
he is a very rugged man. We started as friends, then got closer and we later
got married. He is also a very amazing father, I admire the way he cares for
his kids. I am very grateful to God for him. He was once married and the union
produced three children who are all grown up now”.
My husband is my best friend —
Oluchi Orlandi
Oluchi Orlandi is a popular
Nigerian international supermodel. She won the Face of Africa in 1998 and
has also appeared on the cover of a lot of renowned magazines such as Vogue,
Elle and Sports Illustrated for a record four times. Oluchi, 32 is happily married
to a 53-year-old popular Italian fashion photographer, Luca Orlandi since
August 2005. The happy union has produced two sons. She is in the top list of
celebrities who have sustained interracial marriages.
On how she copes, the dark and
beautiful model maintains that her marriage has been wonderful because she
married her best friend even though it is an interracial marriage.
She said “I have been married since
2005. I think it is just marrying your best friend more than anything. A man
that will understand you, a man that will support you in good and bad times. My
husband is my best friend”.
He just laughs whenever he sees my
nude pictures — Maheeda
Raunchy and controversial
singer, Caroline Sam, popularly known as Maheeda, met and wedded her
Dutch husband, Robert in 2012, and he moved her and her teenage daughter to the
Netherlands. Remember she once said if he wasn’t so rich, she wouldn’t have
married him. Not only does she have a millionaire husband (as she says)but a beautiful
daughter she conceived during her teenage years, though her hubby isn’t
the biological dad.
In a recent interview, she talked
about her husband and how he handles her controversial lifestyle, “
“I am married and my husband is Dutch. What I am doing is not alien to him or
his family and he understands. I met him at a bar when he just came to Nigeria.
We are happily married. Even before we got married, he understood my kind of
person.
He was aware of my vision. He has
always been supportive. He just laughs whenever he comes across any of my nude
pictures. It’s in Africa that we attach much importance to such things and
consider it sacrilegious”. She said.
I’m always happy whenever she is
around – Rodriguez, Uche’s hubby
Uche Jombo, one of the A-list actresses
in Nollywood, is also a thriving movie producer with fourteen flicks to
her credit. It is just over two years since the Abiriba, Abia-State-born
thespian walked down the aisle with her American-Puerto Rican born husband,
Kenny Rodriguez, in a low-key wedding that took place on May 16, 2012 on the
shores of Puerto Rico, in the northeastern Caribbean taking most of her teeming
fans by surprise.
A visibly overjoyed Rodriguez, in an
interview narrated how he met and fell in love with his darling wife, Uche.
Hear him, “We got to know each other through a friend who happens to be a
business partner but it took some few months and persuasion before she finally
agreed to marry me because I told her point blank that I want to marry her. She
paused and never said anything, after much conviction, she threw in the towel.
My wife is beautiful, gorgeous,
loving, caring, amiable and a good cook. Her smiles keep me going and I’m
always happy whenever she is around me,” love-struck Rodriguez added.
More to come….