Winner of the Big Brother Naija housemate season 7, Phyna has opened up on her two controversial abortions.
Phyna recently discussed her decision to terminate her pregnancies at ages 19 and 24 in an interview with Vanguard. She said that because she was young and from a low-income family during the first pregnancy, she couldn’t afford to support a child. She had to remove the baby during her second abortion since the relationship she was in was a toxic one.
She said:
“if there are 100 women in Nigeria today, 98 have done abortions. So, no one should judge me. I was in a 12-year relationship then and I was so young. The first abortion was when I was 19; I couldn’t go home to tell my parents that I was pregnant at that age. And the two pregnancies were so early like two to three weeks that I could just use tablets. The second was when I was 24, and I had finished serving then. I was ready to keep it but the relationship was getting toxic. He abused me and always beat me up. I said to myself that I couldn’t do this anymore, so I took it out and that was how I ended the relationship.”
Phyna also said that if presented with the same choices today, she wouldn’t make them because she is now able to care for a child.
“The way I am now, I have money to take care of 10 children. In fact, if my parents were rich at the time of my first pregnancy, I wouldn’t have aborted it. But because I knew I was from a very poor background, we used to eat once a day then, especially in the afternoon and then carry it till the next day. So, keeping the baby then, was no option for me.”
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