Nigerian actor Bolanle Ninalowo has explained why he permitted his daughter Aliyah, who is eighteen, to have a navel piercing.
In an interview with media personality VJ Adams, Ninalowo claimed that when Aliyah first indicated interest in getting a tongue piercing, he turned her down and advised her to think about alternative options.
He claimed that she finally suggested getting a navel piercing, which he accepted as it is simple to take off. “I agreed to her request, drove her to the appointment, and covered the cost because I wanted to keep a close relationship with my daughter,” he stated.
“I remember one day my daughter woke me up and said she wanna get a tongue ring, and I took a moment to think then I said, ‘Yo Aliyah, a tongue ring, I wouldn’t want to kiss a girl with a tongue ring but think about something else,’ and she was like okay, I will think about it,” he said.
“So she came back and said, ‘I now know what I want, I could get a belly button ring,’ and I am like that is more like it because you can remove it anytime. I drove her there myself. As much as I would rather not want that, but that was an opportunity for me to connect, so I would not stop that.”
Last year, Ninalowo announced the end of his marriage to Bunmi, citing irreconcilable differences.
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