Tonto Dike Opens Up On Juggling Motherhood With Her Career In A Recent Interview


Tonto Dike Interview With Sun News Online

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike is all charming and gracious as she grants an exclusive where she discusses certain issues which the world has been curious to know about.

In the totally honest interview with Sun News Online in Abuja, the talented actress, in her usual candid style, gives an all round view of her life and talks about critical areas including her sex life, drugs, booze, philanthropy, cosmetic surgery, failed marriage, motherly love for her son, and her drive towards Hollywood as her career grows.

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We have a few excerpts below

On why she relocated to Abuja

“In 2015 when I was pregnant with my son, I decided to have my baby, my motherly instincts kicked in , I decided to think of anything that would be better for my son , I love Lagos and I do know the effect it has had on me , I do know what I do not want for my child.

So, I decided to check round the country to see where I could raise my son in the best way that I can and I found Abuja very soothing; education is great, I am not scared that my son will get corrupt either in school or with the neighbors, the neighbors are beautiful. As an actress or a public figure, there is nothing like adoring your privacy and they give me my privacy here in Abuja.”

On what her daily routine is

“It’s massively filled with love, I wake up every day, what’s on my mind is my son. I take care of my son from Sun up to Sun down but in between I get to work I get to be a humanitarian, I get to be an actress, I get to be a business woman. But basically my daily life is being a mom.”

On how she juggles her career and motherhood

“It’s beautiful, like I always say, because I’m into women empowerment a lot, I assert that women empowerment is not giving women the power because we already have the power, we just do not know how much power we do have.

I have so much power multi-tasking, I’m a woman and that’s what we are versatile in doing and especially the love I have for my son, it just helps me to be a great mom. It helps me to be a great person at the same time because I don’t want to disappoint him, at the same time I want my son to have the best, so because of him my life is balanced.”

On how she has been able to absorb all of the controversy about family, career?

“Naturally, everybody knows the Tonto Dikeh brand is like a super- woman brand. I am a very strong woman, so, positivity, negativity I find a way to put it into work in my life. I try to use all of the criticism and love and apply it to better myself.

So, no publicity is bad publicity. Being a public figure you get to share your life, the good, the bad and the ugly with the public and I’m a woman who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who is not afraid to show strength, who is not afraid to show every area of my life. In recent times I have shared the good and the bad but I have come out strong.”

On if she totally dropped the ugly experiences from her marriage

“Yes I have. Definitely at some point you heal, everybody heals at some point.”


On if her healing isn’t too quick

“It’s a choice, if you want to stay down it’s your choice but strength is a woman’s thing and I have it.”

On the drug allegations leveled against her

“While growing up, I did a lot of rough movies, I did a lot of movies that doing drugs had to be involved, a lot of movies that people had to form an opinion about me and so, that is where that opinion of drugs came out. As a young girl growing up, I did make some mistakes with alcohol, cannabis and cigarettes but I’m older now and I’m above all of those things, I have a son now.

I always tell people who ask me why I quit smoking  “What if my son needs blood tomorrow, what will I say to myself that I can’t give my son blood because I still want to indulge in cannabis”. I know it’s one of those things I did quit by the grace of God because it is not easy to desist from.

The drug allegations from my ex-husband was just a lie to cover up his domestic violence track, he felt that was a tool he could use to tarnish my image, but come to think of it, there are too many holes in that story. It is impossible for a father who genuinely says he cares about your son to leave his son with a drug addict, if you had a drug addict at home, would you not fight for the custody of your son? I don’t joke with my son, so, if a father joked with his son in that way, he just lied to cover up the fact that he’s a woman beater. “

Outside my movies, you would never catch me with a revealing dress apart from maybe a bum short that everybody wears. I am so ashamed of clothes that expose your cleavage; I think I have only worn them once in a while. I like conservative, reserved clothes but you know now I have a new body I don’t know how long I’ll be able to maintain that style, I won’t also forget that I’m a child of God in the process. Let’s watch!

On her beauty routine

“Basically, I try as much as possible not to go to bed with my makeup. I have a particular cosmetic product that I use which is Pearls international skin care product, that’s about all I do, I eat a lot of vegetables and I drink a lot of water. I try not to stress my skin by having injuries or staying under the sun for too long, I treat my self to a spa once in a while because I am very busy but if you could every month, kudos to you!”

On if she thinks her marriage was a mistake

“Yes, it was a huge mistake but then again how can a mistake produce such a wonderful gift, that is all I keep saying to myself. How it happened is something I have forgotten about. Part of the healing process is not going back to it. I’m done. “

On losing weight after child birth

“Yes I did a cosmetic surgery but before my surgery I had lost all my baby weight. I was a little bit stressed out being a new mom, I started going back to work, I started to eat healthier, I stopped breastfeeding because it was the only thing that made me add weight. My body metabolism just went back to normal after that I had a so banging…”

On her current relationship status

“Right now the only thing that can interest me in a man is his love for God and his love for my son, if you have any of them at 99% and not 100, then my answer is no.

You have to be financially stable, I am not going to help a man grow anymore. You have to be financially strong enough to take care of me; I’m tired of being the moneybag.”

On what else she does asides entertainment

“I do have a foundation, it’s called the Tonto Dikeh foundation. My foundation caters for a wide range of people in the society, we do cater and advocate for the rape victims, we advocate against child molestation, we also advocate against domestic violence and we do have so many initiatives and projects that we indulge in yearly.”

 





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