Former Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Omowunmi Akinnifesi speaks about being a virgin at 37 (video)

Omowunmi Akinnifesi, a former beauty queen, has disclosed that she is still a virgin at 37.

Omowunmi, who clinched the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) title in 2005, disclosed this in a video shared online to celebrate her birthday.

She revealed that she made a covenant with God at the age of 18 – the year she won MBGN – that she would maintain chastity till marriage.

She said in a video shared online: “Personally, I had a covenant with God when I was 18 about keeping myself.

“People will say celibate but I’ve never done before.”

She said it wasn’t easy because she had no one to guide her and she felt ashamed to discuss it because women in her circle would laugh at her.

“Because I had kept myself, I walked in shame for a very very long time. I was actually very ashamed of it and I had friends that I couldn’t talk to. When I finally spoke to them, they will laugh at me,” the businesswoman disclosed.

To compound issues, being in the public eye, there were stories about her dating different people, which were false, but she let it fly because she was ashamed.

She said: “And then, even worse, the stories that I’ll hear about myself, that I’ve dated this person, or I was with this person. Those stories, would you believe that I actually didn’t mind those stories because it helped mask the real me.

“Imagine being OK with negative stories about you because you’re masking something you thought was going to be an embarrassment. Something like virginity.”

She went further to state that though it was hard for her, it would be harder in this present clime when “everyone is so open about their sexuality” and she can’t imagine what younger women choosing to toe the same line are going through.

Omowunmi, who turned 37 on Dec 4, added in the caption that “it feels good to come out of the closet”.