Yes, I'm Over 50 But I Still Want To Get Married

While some women may have lost hope of ever finding Mr Right after clocking 50, veteran Nollywood actress, Ngozi Nwosu, is still very hopeful that she can still get married despite her age.

In an interview with The Nation, Nwosu opened up on her health status, the way forward in her career as well as what her ideal man should like.

Read excerpts from the interview below:

Yes, I’m very fashionable. But if you look at me now, I am an orobo. There are no two ways about it. It is because of my health. I am an exercise freak, but because of my health, I cannot exercise for some time now. By the grace of God, when I’m back to myself fully, you will see the Ngozi you know.

How will you handle it? You have to be cheerful. It’s only a dead meat that doesn’t have admirers. So long as you are in the public eye, men will admire you. You are bound to be admired by the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s for you to say, ‘Thank you! It’s all good! It’s well.’

My ideal man, frankly, is a man that has the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom. If a man doesn’t have the fear of God, forget it! Every other thing you are doing is rubbish. And between you and me, how many men have the fear of God?

I believe in the school of thought that says if you want to eat frog, eat the one that has eggs. I love men who are handsome and brainy. If you are ugly and you’ve got something upstairs, you are welcome. But I don’t want a fine man without brains.

No, there is no complete being in life. It’s just about knowing what you can put up with and what you cannot.

Yes, of course! Why won’t I say, ‘Yes, I do’?

My desire is that the Lord should keep me and the usefulness that He has given me should not depart from me; that God should grant me the wisdom to know Him better and that He should always guide my footsteps.

That’s something I’ve been doing. I was the producer of Onga Seasoning, a radio programme, for four years. But I have not produced my own movie before. The only movie that I know I have co-produced was the one I produced with Okechukwu Ogujiofor and K.O.K, after Living in Bondage. For me, it’s one thing at a time. I don’t believe that because everybody is producing, then I should produce. There is time for everything and when it gets to that time, I will produce mine.