Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa, is renowned for her vigorous personality and sanguine nature. Always expressing positive energy and enthusiasm towards her career as a media person, her marriage to Maje Ayida (they’ll eventually divorce in 2017), and life in general.
Amid the turmoil and adversity she has experienced in her personal life, Makinwa always seems to emerge on top of the situation; however, she has remained a punching bag for trolls on social media.
Despite her perspective on an epicurean way of life, she always makes enemies out of her posts on social media platforms such as Twitter (otherwise known as X) and the photo-sharing app, Instagram, where she is an actual mainstay. Makinwa never seems to say something right, at least according to naysayers who are always quick to criticise her for her opinion and slide into her DMs to mock her.
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Amid everything, Toke Makinwa has continued to maintain a positive outlook on life.
Background Story: Who is Toke Makinwa
In her 2016 semi-autobiography, On Becoming, Toke Makinwa explained how she lost both her parents following a gas explosion in their house in Lagos state. At the tender age of 8, she became an orphan, leaving her with her sister, whom she lost to the cold hands of death in 2021 following the conclusion of the Big Brother Naija Season 6 edition.
Makinwa is a woman who has been through pain and emotional trauma for most of her life; against all odds, she has been able to survive and make something of herself. Following her struggles in the early part of her life, she began to seek love and acceptance; interestingly, she did find it.
Enter Maje Ayida
On 15 January 2014, she married Maje Ayida, whom she had been involved with for eight years before their wedding. In 2015, she separated from Ayida after finding out that he had gotten his ex-girlfriend pregnant. On 5 October 2017, Makinwa’s marriage to Ayida was dissolved by a Lagos High Court because Ayida committed adultery.
Another heartbreak in the bag for Toke Makinwa.
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Finding Solace in Fashion, Cosmetic Surgery, and Everything in Between
Following her separation from her estranged husband, Maje Ayida, the Nigerian media personality began to embrace the ideology of self-love, feminism, and body augmentation.
Steadily, it was at this point that Makinwa gradually began to turn into a public enemy.
Netizens didn’t want the evolved version of her; they simply wanted her to remain the radio girl sweetheart from the early 2000s. However, this wasn’t what Makinwa wanted for herself, so she went under the knife.
Makinwa quickly became one of the first popular socialites in Nigeria to come out to express that she has had a body augmentation. Aside from bleaching her skin, she also had a lip filler, Brazilian butt lift (BBL), and several other forms of cosmetic surgery. She’s steadily becoming the woman she envisioned is best suited for her.
The many augmentations gave Makinwa a confidence boost that she has always desired- movie roles, magazine covers, and the face of her own podcast channel, Moments With Toks. She’s living her best life; however, with great success comes haters, critics, and naysayers.
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So, Why is Toke Makinwa a Polarizing Person?
It’s simple, Makinwa reminds netizens of what they’ve been unable to achieve. For every enthralling moment that Makinwa shares on her Instagram page, she stabs their emotions and reminds them of their insecurities. Unfortunately, Makinwa has only gotten better over the years, and this simply means that her naysayers only try to bring her down via negative and snide remarks.
Some trolls dubbed her ‘childless’, ‘a low-budget Ikorodu Kim Kardashian’, etc. She’s been through a lot; however, Makinwa has been able to overcome the adversity of all the I don’t want to remember years.
Conclusion: On Becoming… Makinwa
Several days ago, Toke Makinwa welcomed her first child just a few months prior to her 41st birthday. Against all odds, Toks, one of the most fashionable media personalities, has a child of her own, and she is prepared to tend towards greater heights and the beautiful sphere of becoming a mother.
She isn’t a perfect person; hence, she should be given some grace from critics on social media. Makinwa has been able to achieve everything that she has assigned to herself. It’s best to acknowledge her achievements and congratulate her on the arrival of her babies. Toke Makinwa might not necessarily be an example of the ideal inspirational leader; however, she is a woman who is influential in her own way, controversial, enigmatic, and true to her own personality.
She is who she is; others should go do what works for them.
