Adunni Ade and her handsome
sons, 9-year-old D’Marion and 5-year-old Ayden, are the cover stars for the
latest issue of Motherhood In-Style Magazine.
In the exclusive interview, Adunni opens up on life as a
single parent, why she quit America’s Next Top Model and details of her
personal challenges.
Talking about single parenting,
It's tough, it's hard, it's strenuous, it takes everything
out of you. But I have been doing this for so long. I know I just have to get
it done.
When you are a parent its not about you anymore. So all I do
is work, work, work. I just have to get it done."
Would you like to share why you are not with the father of
your children?
“Well, I just had to make that decision though it took me a
long time to realise or stop lying to myself that it was never going to work
out even though I tried as much as I could.
I just decided that what’s best for me is to walk away and
still be here and be with my kids and still have the opportunity of being the
best mother possible, so yeah, I had to make that decision.
It was really tough, it was really painful; I think that hurt
me the most out of anything that I have ever been through in my life, walking
away was the hardest thing to do.”
If she was married to him, “Well, we were never married. We were together for 8
years but in the state of Kentucky, it’s a commonwealth state and commonwealth
state is if you live together for a long period of time, you might as well be
considered married but on paper, no, never been married before.”
She also talked about her struggle with depression as a result of her troubled
relationship.
She said, “I think the major thing that got me through was the fear that
somebody else would raise my children if I sat in that relationship, that was
the scariest thing for me, that my kids would see somebody else as their
mother. Depression is no joke.
A lot of people in this country, Nigeria, don’t want to admit that depression
is an illness. People don’t know the extent to which it affects the mind.
A lot of people know this; in the past, I have tried to commit suicide because
it was just too much, just too much for me but I guess God loves me enough to
still keep me here."
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