Mercy Eke, winner of Big Brother Naija season 4, has revealed how she was almost got rid off in the womb by her mother. The reality star disclosed this in an interview with popular media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
Mercy claimed one of her aunties talked her mother into terminating the pregnancy because she already had five children.
Eke said: “When she my mother was pregnant, there is this aunty of mine…my mother has already had five children then this last one which is me.
“She has four girls and one boy. So, when that my aunty came, she was like, ‘Ah! Emilia, is this another pregnancy? With all these children you’ve dumped here.’
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“So, that thing messed with her my mother mental health. It really messed with her that she wanted to like get me out then. She was going to the farm, she would climb something you would fall so that I will go but me I stubborn na. I no go anywhere. I dey gidigba.
“Yeah, it was a true story. She wanted to get me off.”
The reality star said her mum recently narrated the story to her.
She said: “One day, my mother was like she wish that person was alive to see what that girl that she wanted to abort that time has grown to become. Yeah, that was how she told me the story.
“She is happy with me. She is happy that she didn’t remove me or abort me. She is happy that I didn’t die. And she is happy she gave birth to me like she took that risk even without anything. Because now, my mother is one of the happiest people. My mother is just sleeping. She is enjoying life. She wake up, eats what she wants to eat. So, now she is happy”, she concluded.
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