Actress Stephanie Okereke clears the air on her pregnancy and marriage

By Kaymi on June 10, 2013@dailystarngnews

It’s been more than a year since Stephanie and hubby Linus tied the knots grand style in France.

Here’s what she told BellaNaija about the rumours that swirled in December that she was pregnant.

She also shared why she and her husband chose to wed in France.

BN: Sometime in December, rumours swirled that you were pregnant. How did you take this?

It’s a good thing. That means they (Nigerians) are praying for me to pop out the little ones. Yeah, the little ones are coming soon, but you know, everything is in God’s hands and I’ll have a baby when I’m supposed to have a baby. I am definitely not under any kind of pressure. We wish for it to happen and of course it’s going to happen.

Why did you choose to have your wedding in Paris?

We just wanted something different. If it was in Nigeria, it would have been a real carnival but we wanted something serene. The love is a little bit sweeter in Paris, you know it can be hard in Nigeria (laughs). He feels he is a King and I’m a Queen, that is what we call ourselves, and we wanted to have this whole royal thingy going and we knew that we wouldn’t get that serenity in Lagos. We also wanted our families to bond, we wanted our parents to experience something new, to travel and relax. It was special to us and we wanted everyone around us to have special memories. We wanted something spiritual and divine. Not like we couldn’t get it here, but we wanted something to look back at with joy. We wanted to do us.

Despite the fact that it was a destination wedding, you had a good number of family and friends from Nigeria join you.

It was just God showing himself. We told God that we wanted to get married in Paris and He should give us a sign if we should do Paris. And He gave us a sign. Arik Air donated one full return flight to us at no cost. Also, Air France gave us good discounts on tickets and the Embassy was really helpful with visas. It’s the grace of God that gets us things like that.