Reality show star, Maria Benjamin who gained prominence shortly after participating in the sixth edition of Big Brother Naija tagged: ‘Shine Your Eyes’, has yet again, revealed her huge baby bump, and this time, with a male figure.
The reality TV star made her pregnancy announcement on her Instagram account on Friday, June 23, 2023.
Maria Benjamin taking to her official Instagram on Thursday 6th July 2023, posted a series of her baby bump photoshoot, and in one of the photos, a male figure, we are guessing is the baby Daddy, was photographed with her. She was photographed cradling her baby bump, and shielding the face of the male figure standing behind her from the camera lenses.
She clearly does not want the public to know the identity of her man, and soon-to-be baby Daddy or husband.
In her post announcing her pregnancy back in June, she had captioned her post with these words:
“This chapter is called blessed. With our hearts filled with so much love and happiness we can’t wait to meet you.”
The latest social media post from Maria Benjamin is coming a few weeks after she opened up on her ordeal while featuring in Chude’s show.
Maria Benjamin in the interview she granted, recalled how she was auditioned for BBNaija, describing 2020 as a very challenging year for her.
“2020 was a very challenging year for me. I was like, ‘What am I going to do next’, and I didn’t know much about Big Brother.
“I had few friends prior to 2019, who were encouraging me to go, and I was like, ‘No’. Later, I made up my mind because I knew I had future goals I wanted to achieve, and I thought, ‘maybe this is the platform that I needed’.
“I didn’t even tell my family I was going for Big Brother because they wouldn’t have known my real intention for being on such a platform because of the negative impression associated with ladies on such platform.
“To them, it will be ‘why do you want to showcase yourself on a reality show in Nigeria. The reality show in the UK is always trashy with people fighting, swearing at each other and all of that,’ and that is the image they would have had in their head,” she recounted.
Continuing, she added “When I entered the Big Brother Naija house, I didn’t know what was going to happen afterwards.
“I didn’t even know I was going to move back to Nigeria.
Everything was just like forced upon me. When I did come out of the house, I was at a stage of my life where things were difficult mentally.
“Dealing with the new ‘so-called’ fame, everything was just too much. I literally started to learn all over again at the end of 2021, when I left the house”, she added.
Maria also talked about her relationship with her late father after her parents’ divorce and how she was dealing with grief.