BBNaija Winner Phyna Reveals Why She Had Two Abortions At Age 19, 24

Winner of Big Brother Season 7 reality TV show, Ijeoma Josphina Otabor, popularly known as Phyna, has revealed why she had two abortions when she was 19 and 24 years of age.

While responding to reactions that trailed her admittance of taking abortion pills, Phyna in an interview with Punch said;

“As for my reasons for taking abortion pills, if there are 100 women in Nigeria today, 98 have done abortions. So, no one should judge me. I was in a 12-year relationship then and I was so young. The first abortion was when I was 19; I couldn’t go home to tell my parents that I was pregnant at that age. And the two pregnancies were so early like two to three weeks that I could just use tablets. The second was when I was 24, and I had finished serving then. I was ready to keep it but the relationship was getting toxic. He abused me and always beat me up. I said to myself that I couldn’t do this anymore, so I took it out and that was how I ended the relationship.”

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Phyna however said that she would not consider abortion in her current state. The reality star added that her family’s financial status contributed to her decision at the time.

She said;

Why would I do that? The way I am now, I have money to take care of 10 children, so why? In fact, if my parents were rich at the time of my first pregnancy, I wouldn’t have aborted it. But because I knew I was from a very poor background, we used to eat once a day then, especially in the afternoon and then carry it till the next day. So, keeping the baby then, was no option for me.