Ayo Mogaji, a famous Nollywood actress, has opened up about herself, explaining how she became a mother at the age of 40 with only one fallopian tube.
During a podcast episode held by Nollywood actress Abiola Adebayo on Friday, she recounted her life story, revealing that she had her baby six weeks after turning 40 despite having just one fallopian tube.
The fallopian tubes are small, hollow structures that sit on either side of the uterus. They provide channels for eggs to travel from the ovaries to the uterus.
Mogaji stated that her fallopian tube was ruptured when she had her first ectopic pregnancy, and she needed it to be evacuated to save her life.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants and develops outside of the normal space within the uterus.
Typically, this occurs in the fallopian tube, where eggs move from the ovaries to the uterus, resulting in a tubal pregnancy.
She revealed that some of her colleagues who were with her at the hospital wept severely since the doctor told them she might not make it.
She reported that the operation to remove the pregnancy lasted seven to nine hours.
Mogaji recounted, “There was this lawyer who wanted to marry me because he had been in a marriage for 14 years and they never had a child. He took me to his mum and I was looking for a child that period. Our mothers were introduced and I got pregnant.
“Unfortunately, the pregnancy was ectopic. It stayed right inside the fallopian tube and LUTH was on strike at that time. So, by the time we realised what was happening, they took me to seven hospitals and the late Uncle Ede Aderinokun was the one who gave me a note to the hospital where they admitted me.
“They didn’t even want to admit me. The doctor said he wasn’t sure if I could survive till tomorrow and I said “Do you believe in God? Even if you do not believe in God, believe in me because I believe in God. We did not have an agreement that I was going to die like this.’ They did the operation and it took them seven to nine hours the following day.
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the ectopic pregnancy ruptured before they could do anything and it ruptured my appendix, so they had to remove one fallopian tube. I am living with one and I had my child through natural birth with that one I have left.”
Speaking about her love life, she stated that she fell in love and married, but her partner was abusive for 13 years of their marriage.
She admitted that her ex-husband physically abused her, and she was unable to live with him without the help of a third party.
However, the actress warned women not to endure an abusive marriage.
She said, “When matrimony leads you to a place where you can’t have your own friends, the family can not come, you will start looking at them somehow, even knowing the kind of job you were in before you got married. The reaction at home, the abusive language, the physical abuse, the mental torture; when it gets too much, I will advise anybody to get out of that kind of marriage because otherwise, they may come and meet your candle.”
On whether she could reconcile with her ex-husband, she said, “There can’t be room. If I could tolerate that thing for 13 years thinking there could be a change, then there can never be change. He is not a bad person but when you are too jealous and have a complex, it is very hard. It can’t work. You can try to make your marriage work, yes you can try.”
Olaitan Ibrahim