Veteran Nollywood actress, Dupe Jayesimi, has shared her emotional experience of living without her own child at the age of 60.

Speaking on Talk to B, a podcast hosted by her junior colleague, Biola Bayo, the Yoruba film star recounted how she had no child to call her own despite once being married.

She revealed that she became pregnant during her wedding ceremony but later lost the pregnancy.

“Although I was pregnant when I did my wedding, I had miscarriage weeks after the wedding.”

Following the loss, she explained that her husband began distancing himself from her, even going as far as demarcating their bed with a pillow.

She said she attempted IVF procedures twice in her bid to have a child, but both efforts failed. The actress added that two weeks after she eventually left the marriage, her husband brought another woman who was already pregnant into the house and married her.

Jayesimi further narrated how her desire to adopt a child was discouraged by her mother. Instead, she took on the responsibility of caring for her siblings’ children, supporting many of them through school.

Despite her sacrifices, she said she often felt sidelined when those children were getting married, as she was not given the recognition of a mother figure.

“I know how the kids of those who have children celebrate them. But I have no one to celebrate with me.” (Saturday Tribune)