How I had my first child at 40 – Actress Ayo Mogaji

By Taiwo Okanlawon

Veteran ace Nollywood actress, Binta Ayo Mogaji has recalled her experience during the birth of her first child.

Mogaji recalled the experience about motherhood when she featured in an interview with actress Biola Bayo on the ‘Talk To Be’ podcast.

During the interview, the movie star revealed that one of her fallopian tubes was removed during the pregnancy of her child with Jibola.

Fallopian tubes are a pair of tubes where the eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus. It is where a fertilized egg can develop into a fetus.

The 60-year-old film star said the doctor notified her of her chances of survival prior to the surgery.

Mogaji said she eventually gave birth to her child “naturally, six weeks after I became 40”.

“I got pregnant. Unfortunately enough, the pregnancy was ectopic. It stayed right inside the fallopian tube. They took me to like seven hospitals. They gave me the bed and the man said I am not sure you can survive till tomorrow. The operation took them like seven to nine hours,” she said.

“The following day, Ngozi had cried her eyes out…. Shola Sobowale, Sam Loco, Jide Kosoko, everybody was at the hospital. She was they had to remove one fallopian tube but I am living with one and I had my child through natural birth.

“I stopped looking for husband, I wanted to make baby. If I do not have a baby until I am forty then I will adopt a child… Jibola came around the time shortly before I was forty. I had my baby six weeks after I became forty years old.

Binta said she was never married to Nollywood actor Jibola Dabo, her colleague who she shares a child with, even though there were rumours then that the pair were married but their union didn’t work out.

She later got married to Victor Ayodele Oduleye, the retired soccer player and physiotherapist.

Binta Ayo Mogaji is an actress well known for many her appearance in yoruba movies and fondly referred to as Igbanladogi, a name she got from her role in a film titled ‘IGBALADOGI’ years back.