What was growing up like? Growing up was great, I grew up in London, I came to Nigeria when I was 9 years old and I attended Lagos State Model College where I learnt a lot about life. I think if I didn’t come to Nigeria for that four years, I wouldn’t be who I am today so, I encourage a lot of parents that give birth to their kids abroad ensure you bring them home for that foundation in just few years because that was when I learnt to wash clothes with my hands, respect, kneel to greet and all that because in abroad, you just hi mum, hi dad and that is all. In Nigeria one must kneel down to greet elders.
I also learnt how to cook and speak Yoruba and the culture. I learnt the modesty of a woman, as much as we clamour for feminism, it was in Nigeria that I learnt that the husband is still the crown upon your head and that was when I learnt to love God the way I do, so coming to Nigeria for that grounding was very important before I went back How does that influence who you are now? I am who I am now because of those different cultures I learnt, sometimes I am British because of the 30 years I spent there. I got the best of upbringing and it influences me a whole lot.
I have a policy that whatever interaction I have with anybody including my domestic staff must be mutually beneficial. Tell us about your modeling career in the UK. The best part of my life I was a size 6, it is the Nigerian food that made me fat.
I was slim those days to the extent that my dad will keep an ey.