Everything You Should Know About Nse Ikpe-Etim

Nigerian actress Nse Ikpe-Etim is one actress many have come to passionately love. The talented actress made news a few hours ago after she revealed she is actually a woman without a womb.

Here is everything you should know about Nse Ipe-Etim.

The actress was born on the 21st of October 1974 in Lagos. on growing she said;

Growing up was very good for me. I enjoyed my childhood a lot because I come from a close-knit family and a lot of love abound. My dad and mother encouraged us a lot to always speak our minds. Over the years, I have tried to be diplomatic about things. Growing up made me realize that there was no need to furnish anything, it is either black or white, but I have started seeing grey areas now (smiles). There was a period I didn’t grow up with my parents; I got that kind of mentality from my Godparents, who were foreigners, I lived with them a lot. That also created another thing for me. So rather than have toys, my father gave me books to read. I played with gravel a lot! (Laughing).

2. Nse attended Awa Nursery School and Command Primary School in Kaduna State before proceeding to St Louis College, Jos and the Federal Government Colleges in Jos and Ilorin.

3. The actress lived in various regions of Nigeria due to her father job with the Central Bank of Nigeria

Yes I went to school, where do you want me to start? Nursery school? I went to Awa Nursery School in Kaduna. I went to Command Primary School, Kaduna. I went to Command Primary School in Jos, I also attended St. Louis College in Jos, went to FGC College in Jos for about a year. I went just for a term and then I finally went to Federal Government College Ilorin. In JSS2 and don’t ask me why that was (laughing) because my dad worked for the central bank of Nigeria and each time he was sent on transfer, we move with him. My growing up was interesting because I got a little of people’s culture even though living in the GRA will not really ‘make you’. You know in those days, it was not really as if you were living amongst people, but I still learnt a bit from school.

4. Etim bagged a degree in theater Arts from the University of Calabar. ”Yeah! I remember that one because I almost forgot I went to university. (Laughing) I went to the University of Calabar.”

5. Nse married her childhood sweetheart Clifford Sule on 14 February 2013 at a Lagos registry.

6. Nse started acting at the age of 18. She started with stage plays at the university.

7. She landed her first television appearance in the family soap Inheritance.

8. Nse left the movie world after she graduated from the university before returning to feature in Emem Isong’s Reloaded.

9. She has won several awards to include 2012 Best of Nollywood Awards, amongst others.

10. She recently revealed she does not have a womb.

“I was told I couldn’t have kids, so, I had to have a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) to make me have a life again and to stop going through what I was going through.

“I’m literately 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.”

“The day I was informed I had to remove my Uterus tears dropped and then my husband squeezed my hand. It was reassuring there was someone there and it was telling me that this is reality, my reality.”

“I didn’t think there was any point anymore because my society taught me that I have to be a mother to be appreciated and every time I went online, I would have one troll or two say ‘you never born?’

“But I’m thankful that that didn’t break me.”

“I’m thankful for Nollywood. I push my pain through every single character.”

“Prior to the hysterectomy, I badly wanted to have children.

“I wanted a set of twins. I wanted children. I wanted so badly I was brooding forever. I did IVF. I did everything our society wants every woman to do so that we can be accepted as women,” she added.

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