Laide Bakare advises women to prioritize having children over marriage for professional success.

Using her own experience, the actress claimed that marriage is not required to start a family.

Laide Bakare, a Nollywood celebrity, has pushed other women to prioritize having children over marriage.

She stated this in an interview with Nollywood On Radio.

The actress urged career-minded single women to have children early if they want to attain long-term professional success.

Using her own experience, the actress claimed that marriage is not required to start a family.

"If you are aspiring to be a superstar, successful in your career as a young girl, I would advise you to get married and have kids early," according to her.

"So that you can devote the remainder of your life to furthering your job, since family is really vital.

"I understand that getting married early might lead to divorce, so I mean having a family early.

"Perhaps I should retract that because I don't mean marriage. I never considered marriage. When I had my first child, all I wanted was a baby.

Bakare explained that her advise was not about marriage, but about starting a family, highlighting the value of having children.

"So the advice is not to get married early but start having a family," she told me.

Bakare also revealed that she had a disagreement with coworker Eniola Badmus, who misinterpreted the advise as a reference to her childlessness.

I just saw Eniola Badmus, so we wanted to continue our argument, and she said I called her childless," she added.

"So I told her what I meant, and all I said was start a family. I intended to build a family, not to marry, but to have children. Not necessarily marry, but at least have children."