Men Don’t See Actresses As Marriageable, They See Us As Toys – Actress
Aisha Abimbola Musa is an actress and she’s popularly known
as Omoge campus because of her lead role in the Yoruba movie titled Omoge
Campus released in 2002. The graduate of Hotel Management and Catering, and
mother of two reveals in a chat with Angela Davies that a lot of men don’t see
actresses as marriageable.
What is the
misconception you think people have about you?
People think I am rude and arrogant because of the roles I
play most times. And for that, I don’t like to be stereotyped. However, because
of my physique and voice people tend to be comfortable with me playing the role
of a bad girl. Unfortunately, people have misconstrued me to be bad, arrogant
and always snobbish but that is not me. But with the new roles that I have
played of recent, people are trying to get acquainted with my real person,
trying to separate me from whom I really am in movies.
Aisha Abimbola is a humble, extremely down to earth, God
fearing, kind and gentle hearted.
How did you meet your
husband and what was the attraction?
The attraction was what made us friends initially. He was a
member of my church, Christ Embassy and we started talking about Pastor Chris,
that was where the attraction started and we became friends. Months later,
precisely on November 2, 2004 he asked me to marry him and I said we are just
friends, no dating and no courtship. However on February 3, 2005 we were
married.
What do you do to
keep your marriage intact because a lot of celebrity marriages have crashed?
(Laughs) Na God, nothing pass God. A lot of men out there
don’t see actresses as marriageable, they see us as toys. They see us as women
they can just come to, gamble with and go. Imagine a man betting with his
friend that I can date that actress, even marry her and have kids from her. And
once he is done, he is gone.
Before I was married, I had different impressions about
marriage but now I know better. There are quite a number of women, even
actresses who want to be married but when a man batters a woman and she is at
the point of death, do you want her to still stay? A lot of actresses are
facing this just that they cannot come out and say this is what we are facing.
Some have tried maintaining a loveless marriage, they tried
holding on to it and some of them are dead now. And I am not an advocate of
such, if it is not working, don’t die there, instead of you to die and leave
your kids as orphans, please leave and take care of your kids.