Real Reason Why I Always Hide My Daughter’s Face – Kate Henshaw

Kate Henshaw talks privacy, remarrying, and social media

Nigerian actress Kate Henshaw is one of Nollywood’s most popular name and face. The actress has been in a number of movies, TV shows, plays, and is a household name here in the country. But as public as Kate Henshaw is, she has also been able to do an amazing job of keeping her private life very private. Many people till this day don’t know that Kate actually has a daughter that is actually a grown woman now.

Speaking to Vanguard about keeping her private life private, social media, and the prospect of re-marrying, Kate Henshaw had more than a lot to say. Here is what she said.

Kate Henshaw
“These days celebrities bring to the internet all their private affairs, some really scandalous and damning. What is your view on how your colleagues use the social media?”

Kate Henshaw: Well, to each, his own; I will say that we all have choices and whatever we do, there are consequences. I, for one, I’m, okay. I’m just minding my lane, content in focusing on my job and issues. I am passionate about advocating for them and generally sending out a positive vibes. So, to each, his own, everyone is an adult and responsible for how they use the tool of social media, because when the purpose of a tool is not known, abuse is definitely inevitable.

“Is that why you kept your daughter away from public eyes?”

She is my business. It’s private. I choose to have a line dividing privacy and public show-off of whatever. I’m a very private person, but it so happens that my life is my work and that makes some part of my life public. But, I choose to protect her, but well, she’s an adult now. She can make the choice to go into the social media space knowing fully well that it’s a mixed world out there. So, one has to work circumspectly, treading carefully and know that the kind of information you put out, may be used against you in the future.

So I choose to keep her away from the public eye as a personal choice.

“Do you think social media has done more harm than good?”

Social media, I don’t know if I can say it has done more harm than good. There’s a lot of good that has come from social media. Issues are brought to light that would otherwise not be heard of like gender-based violence, like murder, like laws against women that have not been passed by the National Assembly, laws that favour women, that are not being looked into by the National Assembly. So, social media if it’s not used correctly can turn out to be harmful like, fake information, impersonation of people’s character, using of their images without permission.

So, we need to be more careful in the usage of social media in terms of disseminating information.

“You’re still young and beautiful, any second thoughts on remarriage?”

(Laughs). Well, never say never at the right time, God will do what He has to do. And if He says ‘No’ fine and if He says, yes, that is also fine. I am not ruling it out, but I am not actively searching to remarry.

Source: Vanguard

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