Marriage is said to be a lovely thing. Marriage is a significant component of a person’s life in Africa. When it comes to Nollywood, there are a lot of gorgeous ladies, light, brown, or dark-skinned; tall, short, plus-sized, or slender, all of whom are stunning in their unique ways. A large number of these ladies are single, married, or divorced.
Many of the married actresses who have managed to keep their marriages together have accepted their fate as the second wife. Some of these marriages survive the test of time, but others end up running out after rushing into the arms of the other woman’s man. In no particular sequence, here are a few of these Nollywood actresses who purportedly settled as second wives at some point.
The most recent addition to the list of actresses who are second wives is at the top.
1. Mercy Aigbe
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Mercy Aigbe, a popular Nollywood actress, appears unconcerned by her reputation when it comes to marriage, since she isn’t new to playing second fiddle, and it’s not just with her recent union. Mercy was previously married to Lanre Gentry, but you may not know that Gentry was already married to Bimbo Akinsanya, another Nollywood actress before Mercy Aigbe became pregnant for him. After she married Lanre Gentry in 2013, Mercy was dubbed a “husband snatcher” by a fellow actress. The marriage ended in 2019 due to allegations of infidelity and domestic violence. Lanre Gentry was formerly married to Temitayo Lewis-Gentry, who is claimed to be raising their three children in the United States.
2. Wumi Ajiboye
Wumi Ajiboye, a well-known Nollywood actress, is a familiar face in Yoruba films, having appeared in a number of them. Segun Ogungbe, a fellow actor, married the lovely actress. Segun had previously married Atinuke before marrying Wumi Ajiboye, his second wife. Wumi and her spouse have two boys.
3. Mercy Johnson-Okojie
Mercy Johnson is a second wife to her husband, Prince Odianosen Okojie, and one of the most brilliant and sought-after actors in Nollywood’s English sector. Many people are unaware of this because the couple is always ready to publish lovey-dovey photos on social media. Prince Odi, on the other hand, was previously married to Lovely, a Canadian woman with two children for him.
Lovely took to social media in 2011 to say that she was the legally wedded wife of Prince Odianose, whom Mercy was preparing to marry, and that she couldn’t be abandoned like way because she was still legally married to her husband, Prince Okojie.
4. Mosun Filani
Mosunmola Filani a popular Yoruba actress and businesswoman, married Kayode Emmanuel Oduoye in secret in 2012. Filani, a light-skinned Yoruba actress, stunned her fans when it was revealed that she had married Oduoye. Simeon and Yemisi Oduoye were still married at the time. For him, Yemisi has two children.
Mosun, who allegedly dated colleagues Odunlade Adekola and Muyiwa Ademola, was accused of seizing Simeon for herself. However, Mosun has denied dating any actor and claims that her husband was previously divorced before they married.
5. Ini Edo
In November 2008 Ini Edo got married to Philip Ehiagwina, a businessman. Edo had a second wedding in February 2009 in America. Their relationship had been pubic, not just because Edo is a well-sort after actress, but also because Ehiagwina had already been married, to Ruth Okoro, a Nigerian-American model, and actress.
Okoro and Ehiagwina fought dirty in public, saying terrible things about each other. Unfortunately, Ini Edo’s union didn’t last the marriage hit the rocks in September 2014.
6. Liz Da-Silva
There hasn’t been any concrete evidence that this Togolese-Nigerian actress, Liz Dasilva has married her baby’s father who she bore a son for, but the fact that the actress went ahead to convert from Christianity to Islam in 2013, changing her name from Elizabeth to Aishat, in a bid to please her supposed husband, Alhaji Olaoye, is a sign that there’s a story there.
Alhaji Olaoye who was married to Zainab with a daughter took Liz as his wife. The relationship between the actress and Alhaja Olaoye soon hit the rocks and in December 2020, via a video, Liz Da-Silva revealed she got married in October of the same year.
7. Stella Damasus
Stella Damasus sure has a record when it comes to men. She married her first husband, Jaiye Aboderin, at 21 in 1999. The couple had two daughters before Jaiye died suddenly in 2005. In 2007, Damasus gave love a chance and got remarried, this time to Emeka Nzeribe. The marriage lasted for seven months before a mutual agreement to divorce.
Then in 2011, the news had it that she was involved with Nollywood producer and director Daniel Ademinokan; a relationship that sparked a lot of controversies all over Nigeria because both parties never publicly admitted to being dating, engaged, or even married until 2014 because Daniel Ademinokan was married to another actor, Doris Simeon at the time. Stella relocated abroad with Daniel and her two daughters and in 2020, the union came to an end!
Ronke Odusanya
Famous Yoruba actress, Ronke Odusanya, who is popularly known as Flakky Ididowo, according to reports secretly got married to Femi Anibaba in the US in 2014. Femi Anibaba was previously married to Folape Sokoya who claimed she had been married to him for over 12 years and that they have three children together before Ronke came into the picture.
Meanwhile, the actress with her beau, Olanrewaju Saheed aka Jago, welcomed their baby girl, Fifehanmi, on August 19, 2019. In 2020, their union was marred by claims of infidelity with her husband requesting DNA on their daughter.
Funke Akindele
Funke’s first marriage was to Mr. Kehinde Oloyede in a very glamorous wedding and it can be said to be one of the shortest marriages in the history of Nollywood. The actress became divorced no sooner than she got married to Mr Oloyede who already had about six children from three women. Funke later married Nigerian rapper Abdul Rasheed Bello, known as JJC Skillz, in London in May 2016 and they are parents to twin boys.