The Intimate Story Of Precious Chikwendu
Most people know her only as the outspoken Femi Fani-Kayode's much younger lover, but there seems to be much more to her than her beauty and romantic affiliation with a Nigerian politician.
Do you know that she is a beauty queen? Her name is Precious Chikwendu. This stunning beauty represented Nigeria at the Miss United Nations World Beauty pageant in 2014. Not only did she sponsor herself to the event she got herself well groomed with her own resources up to the required international standard.
She contested in this intimidating international pageant which took place on 7th July, 2014 in Kingston, Jamaica. She competed against a host of other participants who came with the full backing of corporate and individual sponsors from their respective countries, intimidating delegations, large crowds of international celebrities and well-heeled supporters and other nerve-wracking credentials.
They came from countries like the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Canada, the Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Guyana, Martinique, Gaudalupe, the Bahamas, Australia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica (the host nation) and many others.
Amidst all this, Precious Chikwendu of Nigeria, was all alone. She had no sponsors, no delegation, no international celebrities, no corporate giants, no media gurus, no lobbyists and no Olympian credentials to back her. The only things she had were her natural beauty, her warm charm, her brains, her university degree, her confidence, her faith in God and an impressive catalog of the sterling achievements of her numerous works of charity here in Nigeria. Despite the tough competition and the intimidating obstacles and factors that she was faced with, she worked her socks off and got through to the final where she, in spite of all the odds, became the winner of the keenly contested pageant.
This achievement makes her, not only the first ever Nigerian to have won the crown but also the first ever African to have emerged as winner in the prestigious pageant whose rules, conditioning and criteria for winning are more stringent than most.
As a mark of the respect and trust that they have in her, Miss Chikwendu was recently awarded the local franchise of the Miss United Nations Pageant by the international body. This was done by the pageants Board of Trustees under the leadership of its President, a prominent and well-respected Jamaican businessman by the name Mr. Leon Williams. She was given the mandate to organize the national version of the pageant in Nigeria on an annual basis.
She is also a former model and professional actress who has featured in popular movies and TV series such as “Thy Will Be Done”, “Love Struck”, “Onye Ozi”, “I come Lagos”, “Secrets & Scandals”, “The Hustlers” and many more. That's right. Precious Chikwendu is well sought-after in her field. In terms of her acting career we have heard from the grapevine that offers have come flooding in from Hollywood ever since she won the international pageant.
If she follows this up and decides to take the full plunge it appears that she is set to follow in the footsteps of other African actors on the world stage like Chinwetalu Ejiofor, Lupita Nyongo and others.
So when next you see Precious Chikwendu hanging on the arms of her lover, know that there is a lot more going on in her life than Femi Fani-Kayode.
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