Why I had two abortions - BBNaija's Phyna

Published date11 January 2023
Publication titleNigeria - The Nation

BBNaija Season 7winner Josephina Otabor aka Phyna has confirmed she aborted twice.

She also explained why she terminated the pregnancies when she was 19 and 24 by taking abortion pills.

Explaining her reason for ingesting the pills in an interview with The Punch, Hype priestess 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.

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'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...

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