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Nigerian-American Actress, Yvonne Orji Celebrates Being A Virgin at 33

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: August 24, 2017
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Nigerian-born HBO star, Yvonne Orji, who rose to prominence for her sex-drunk character Molly in ‘Insecure’ celebrated her virginity at 33.

The Port Harcourt-born actress said she is proud of herself for abstaining from sex for this long.

According to her, she “is keeping it locked.”

Yvonne Orji told People that she “wasn’t going to hide it just because I’m on TV,

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“I’m grounded in who I am,” she said.

Revealing how dedicated she is in keeping her virginity till marriage, the actress said she created a clothing line to promote abstinence.

“I have a clothing company called Rock Your Stance, and we sell shirts that say ‘Keeping it locked till I get that rock’,” she said, adding that, “Entertainment chose me. Before any of this happened, I sat down with myself and with God. I said, ‘I know why I’m here. It’s to make you proud.’”

The actress who is celebrating her 33rd birthday alongside her virginity revealed that her Nigerian parents like most parents from the country, wanted her to be a doctor.

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“It sounded noble,” she said. “But then I took organic chemistry and I was like, ‘Well, maybe not.’ I ended up getting my master’s degree in public health and then working in war-torn Liberia to stall from crushing my parents’ hopes and dreams,” she continued.

“It would take me eight years to become a doctor, but give me eight years to make it in entertainment,” she recalled telling her family. “And I’m happy to say, I did it in seven!,” she added.

The actress revealed that she migrated from Nigeria to the United States at six.

“It was the traditional immigrant story of my parents wanting the best for us and bringing us here,” she says. “But life in Maryland wasn’t always easy.

“I was bullied because I have this thick Nigerian accent,” she recalls. “My mom would say, ‘We didn’t come to America for you to be popular.’ Which is fair, but as a kid, you’re just like, it would be really nice to have this thing that everyone else has.”

The actress revealed that after graduating with a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University, she shocked her family when she told them she was moving to New York to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.

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