Jackie Matubia, a multi-talented actress and content creator, claimed that she found out she was expecting when she was eight weeks pregnant.
Matubia and her fiance, Blessing Lungaho, are expecting their first child in the near future.
Matubia revealed she found out she was pregnant after falling out with her friends on her YouTube channel. She thought she was fine, but she was in pain.
“I knew I was pregnant at 8 weeks. There is an event I went to and we partied hard. I went backstage and missed a step and fell. When I went to my friends I told them about it and we even laughed about it.”
However, things began to change after that, and she went from having a swelled buttock to losing her appetite and even believing she had caught Covid-19.
“The next day I wasn’t feeling well, I even thought I had covid. I had no appetite, and his cologne was irritating me. I was at a point where I never thought I could be pregnant again,” narrated Matubia.
While waiting for her results, the actress was requested to take a series of tests at the hospital. The doctor then informed her of the situation, which rendered her speechless.
“Between my last period and the time of conception, when I was getting pregnant I was on family planning (an injection). The doctor told me I was 8 weeks pregnant, I froze when the doctor told me that. I did not know whether to laugh, cry or shout. Zahri’s (1st born) was something I had planned for. In this second pregnancy, I wasn’t ready because our relationship was just in the ‘honeymoon’ period.”
Upon receiving the news, Matubia went to her car where she cried for half an hour in sharp contrast to how excited Blessing was when she shared the news.
“I then called Blessing (Madiba) over the phone and he was very excited. But he also told me to tell him more about it once we got home. After learning I was pregnant is when the symptoms come in.“
The former Zora actress was thrown into limbo because she didn’t know whether the deals she had signed with different clients would be canceled.
”For the next 1 week, I used to cry because I did not know if my contracts with different companies would be terminated. I felt like I was gonna lose all the sources of my income, it was hard.“
Matubia who made her relationship with Blessing public during Valentine’s Day, added that her plan was to avoid confusing her fans since the two were still on Zora.
