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How has life been after BBA 2009?
Sincerely speaking it has been really stressful because you are trying to update yourself, upgrade yourself and live up to the expectations of people. It has not been easy. But we give God the glory and we will always remain grateful to Him always.
When you were in the house of BBA 2009, you had very few fans as many people openly showed their dislike for your kind of person on set. But years later you have been able to turn the table around and have made a name for yourself. How did you manage that?
I would say it is all about self discipline and what one believes in. In life there is no perfect being; in whatever you do in life one must have fans and haters. So once you already know that, that should not be a problem. But surprisingly your haters actually motivate you to be a better person by proving them wrong. But when you feel you have everything and you have fans to support you, you become over confident. Your haters actually put you on your toes thereby you prove to them that whatever impression they had of you was wrong.
While in the house, did that perception of hatred people had for you in any way have a negative impact on your self esteem?
I don’t think it had any negative effect on me. Rather I would say it made me who I am today and who I was in the house. I always believe in this saying, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. I think all the negative perception actually made me more serious than I would have been. I know a lot of my fellow housemates back then, that were just there and no one remembered them after the whole show in 2009. But my case is different, maybe because of the hatred they had for me. Everyone wanted to know what that stupid girl was up to now. So everyone kept track of what I did and what I was into. But the bottomline was that it actually made me stronger.
Why did you go in for BBA 2009?
Funny enough, people don’t believe that I have never seen or watched that programme BBA before. I had never I just heard about it. Then one day I was just making fun of my friends and I said to them ‘do you know what, I just want to be known somehow in the society either in the negative way or in the positive way’ and they all laughed it off. I even told them that I would just go and rob a bank so that they would say the first successful female armed robber in Nigeria and may name will be splashed everywhere in the media.
There were people I felt had strong personalities but outside the house they were never really made an impact. People I saw as threats were those that were being evicted and it was like who really knows what Africans want.
Tell us what it was like convincing your parents.
People say you changed your name to fit into the trend of the society. Can you tell us why you changed your name?
I have heard people say that my name is not my real name but a fake name. When I say Nnenna is my real name does not mean that all other names I have are fake. You know in the African culture there is baptism and there you are given a baptism name, your parents give you a name and the society in which you were born also gives you a name. Some people have more than fifteen names but you are only permitted to write down three on your certificates. So when I mean real, it does not mean my other names are fake. In my quest to be on the set of BBA I had to look for a name that will suit the occasion. I wanted a name that would ring a bell whenever it was called. I was looking for a unique name that would actually stand out and that was how I picked one of my names which was Nnnenna to be the name I used for the show. Ever since then the name has been what I use.
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