Former Nigerian top fashion and photography model, Yemi Fawaz, who made
headlines in the 90s, says at 61, she can't get married to a man who is
not financially buoyant. In a recent interview with
The Sun,
Yemi, who ended her career as a model in 1997 after relocating to the
US with her daughter Tobi, says she was never married to a billionaire
as was speculated after her relocation.
"There was a rumour that I was married to a white billionaire, but I
won’t marry out of Christ. If I don’t meet a born again Christian, I
don’t think I will marry. Don’t forget that age doesn’t really count
before God, before God there is no age. The bible says a thousand years
before God is like a year. That means God doesn’t work with age. Sarah
had a baby at 70+ and at that time Sarah had reached menopause but God
gave her a baby. There is nothing God cannot do if God really says I’m
going to be married. If I’m going to be married, the man must be a
free-hearted man like me, who loves people, who is ready to use his
money to help people. I give God all the glory that I have never been
married and I have never been divorced. But now, I’m married to Jesus.
If the man comes, if he’s a good-hearted man, he must be rich too. At
age 61 I can’t marry a poor man and I’m not a gold digger. I’ll tell him
sweetheart, can I have $5,000 and then he starts to ruffle through his
pockets saying “No, I can afford that money”. A man can’t live off me.
For me to marry a man and he’s living off me? No way. I’m not one of
those women. The man will marry me. Not me to marry the man. But women
of today they marry the man. That’s why women are not respected any
longer. I won’t marry a man. The man will marry me, you will marry me
with your money and with your love. Before I had my baby, maybe Tobi
wouldn’t have come. If God converted me the way He converted me now, I
would not have had a baby out of wedlock. But at that time, I was in the
world, I didn’t know the difference. I was an unbeliever, I was a
convenient Christian in Africa where we have 2, 3 or 4, boyfriends at a
time. If I was a Christian then, it couldn’t have happened"she said
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