Actress and comedienne, Valentina Nana Agyeiwaa, better known as Afia Schwarzenegger has announced that all the negativity from the public does not affect her family, especially her children who trust and understand her.
The 41-year-old detailed how she bares it all to her twin boys, James Heerdegen Geilling and John Heerdegen Geilling when she is caught up in a messy situation.
According to the controversial comedian, her parenting style makes it impossible for critics or negative reports to pollute the minds of her children.
Afia Schwarzenegger disclosed in an interview saying:
“I raised James and John as my brothers and so when I fuck up I do tell them. When I do fail, I tell them, and when I am wrong, they are the first people I tell. When I want to cry, they are the first people I cry to… I also believe that we are growing together. I was 20 years when I became a mother. We grew up together and I don’t hide anything from them”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
The actress termed as ‘controversial’ by a section of the public added that she makes mistakes like any other human being and appreciates her family not joining the bandwagon to condemn her.
Afia Schwarzenegger announced in the interview that:
“I am bound to make mistakes and if I can’t confine in my own children, who will I confine with? That’s the best thing I gave them and myself because they know their mom is human, I am not a superhuman being… People say how do your children feel? They know I do genuine mistakes and when I do, I sit them down and say, brothers, I have fucked up… I am not even scared of what the outside world will say because they know me”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
I stopped smoking not because of society but on health grounds
The media personality cum actress, Afia Schwarzenegger revealed that she doesn’t live her life to please others, but rather to fulfill her own needs.
Publicly admitting to being a one-time addicted smoker, she disclosed that she no longer smokes not because of societal pressure but on personal health grounds.
She said:
“I don’t think anybody knows me more than my children, and I also don’t think that anybody knows my children more than myself. So, what will you tell children who know my weakness and my strength? That their mother used to drink? I have not stop drinking so when I say I used to drink it is bullshit”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
She said speaking to the camera during the interview in Berlin, Germany:
“I used to smoke and my children knew it. I stopped smoking not because of society. Hello, hello, I didn’t do it for you”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
She said and stated that the decision to quit smoking was:
“Because I got so many issues… I stopped smoking because of my health. I had breathing issues and so many issues. I’m not the type of person who is that strong”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
Afia Schwarzenegger noted that she didn’t receive any pastor-related advice to quit smoking; Rather, she simply made the decision to stop when she woke up one particular morning.
She added saying:
“For me, it is not any pastor that sat me down to advise me against smoking. Nobody told me to stop smoking. I woke up and I said, you know what, the cigarette is out.
“And for drinking too, I stopped and went back, I will stop again and still go back and they (her children) knew it”.
Afia Schwarzenegger
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