NseIkpe Etim is the talent that even talented ones are in constant awe of. She is a Nigerian actor who hs carved a name for herself in the acting industry for her effortless unique role playing.
We don’t know how she does it but somehow, Nse Ikpe Etim makes acting look so easy and there’s no doubt in our minds that she still has some incredible heights to attain in the acting industry.
While there are not enough information on her love and relationship life prior to meeting her husband, she has been open on rare occasions about her relationship with her husband Clifford Sule.
Nse Ikpe Etim amd Clifford Sule
Nse Ikpe Etim and Clifford Sule got married to each other back in 2013. Clifford Sule is a Nigerian business man and he is also a senior lectures at the Middlesex university in the US.
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NseIkpe Etim normally loves to keep her marital life really private but On the 9thyear of their anniversary, Nse Ikpe Etim took to her instagram page to celebrate it with a cute loved up video of her and her husband.
In an interview with TVC, she talked about how she does not love flaunting her love life on social media despite maybe wanting to. She explained that this was because as a public figure, she already gets a lot of opinion on her life on a daily basis, she did not want to Emory extra opinions about her marriage too.
During an interview withTVC, she have her reasons and in her own words
“Love makes me keep him away. My life because of my profession as an actress has been criticised and i’ve come to live with him but I don’t want my husband to have that.
“It is a personal choice, I want to be selfish with him.
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“I do not criticise those who put out their relationship on social media and don’t think mine is perfect. It is not for you to see it’s perfect but I am comfortable with the fact I have something I can call mine and not share with anyone,”
Nse Ikpe Etim Once Ran Away From Home To Escape Early Marriage
Nse Ikpe Etim also revealed in an interview that she once left home at an early mage because the concept of marriage scared her and she did not want to get married.
In her own words,
“After school I didn’t think I was going to be an actor. It wasn’t the first thing on my mind. I did it in a bid to run away from getting married early.
“I ran away from home with a backpack. It was the second time ever I had go on a bus.
“So I got on a bus and instead of going to Satellite Town, where we lived at the time, I went the other way towards Badagry, because I wanted to run away.
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Then, in some village along that road, I saw cameras. So I jumped down and that was the first time I met Kate Henshaw.
“That was 1996, when I graduated. That’s how I met Julius Agwu, Francis Agwu — all of them were on that set.
The movie was called ‘Scars of Womanhood’ I think. But for me, it was not so much about the work. It was that I wasn’t home.
“I got down from the bus and I told them I read Theatre Arts. They said oh okay, she (Kate Henshaw) needs a friend. I met her (Kate) and we formed a bond that has lasted till tomorrow.
Meanwhile, my mother was looking for me. I got back home after about two weeks and my mother started washing me: ‘You are going to disgrace me!’ I said ‘Ah, I don’t want to marry’.
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“I didn’t tell her about the movie set. I just told her that it looks like I’m going to be an actress and she said ‘Over my dead body’.”
NseIkpe Etim Had HerWomb Removed
In a tell it all interview at an event named “Conversations with Nse” she revealed a very personal and sad story. She opened up on her inability to conceive a child and that it was because she had her womb removed after she was diagnosed with Adenomyosis.
This is a condition where the inner lining of uterus breaks through the muscle wall of the uterus.
In her own words, she said
“I was told I couldn’t have kids and so, I had to have a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) to have a life again and to stop going through what I was going through.
I’m literally telling women and men, it really doesn’t matter if you can’t bear children. What really matters is what you would do for the world, for the universe”
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She also spoke about her battle with depression after finding out that she had to remove her womb.
She also recalls her husband being there for her every single step of the way and it did make her feel better.
She said her depression stemmed more from the fact that the society expected most females to bear children. It was like an age old question asked to women in their thirties and fourties’ with no children.
However she got through it and we are thankful that as tough as it was it did not break her.
The society needs to do better and give females the chance to do what what they want with their bodies without unnecessary expectations.
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She is happy In her love life and currently all seems to be working out smoothly for her.