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In a disturbing trend that has swept through certain social circles, some girls are resorting to a shocking method to achieve the coveted “perfect” body. Pregnancy, once a sacred journey toward motherhood, is being manipulated for vanity—used to gain weight in all the “right” places before being terminated after five months. This exposé by GODFREY GEORGE uncovers the chilling lengths to which some go for the sake of appearance, delving into the pressures of beauty, societal obsession with body image, and the haunting consequences of this dark, open secret

Silence. Longer silence, followed by shock. Dr Sina Ajidahun, a physician, looked utterly thunderstruck.

“You mean young ladies would get pregnant and abort the pregnancy just so they can put on weight? This is madness!” he blurted out in dismay.

Promising our correspondent that he would conduct his own findings, Saturday PUNCH embarked on a deeper investigation to uncover the truth behind this shocking claim.

After hours of scouring microblogging sites, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, several leads began to surface.

These led our correspondent to a quiet town in Delta State, Ukwuani, where many respondents confirmed that the trend was indeed rampant.

“This is no news at all. As far back as 2009, when I was in SS2, I heard of this method for gaining weight. We even had a clique in every class set, which would help you with all sorts of tricks on your weight gain journey,” shared a slightly slender woman who gave her name only as Ada.

“Please, don’t capture me in your camera,” she begged, guiding our correspondent, who had traveled down to her hometown on this knowledge-seeking mission. “People know me here. If word gets out, I may be in trouble,” she added, nervously waving at an older woman frying garri nearby.

The sun hung low in the hazy sky, casting a warm golden hue over the town’s sparse streets, each corner craving a touch of industrialisation.

Before long, Ego, another local, led our correspondent to the home of a man named Chiedu, her cousin, who would help further this fact-finding mission.

Without any prompting, Chiedu immediately began, “This news na old news now. Even boyfriends get their babes pregnant so that their breasts will develop, and then they’ll remove it (pregnancy). I’ll take you to a woman who will tell you everything.”

After several minutes of waiting for transportation, Chiedu offered to drive our correspondent on a ‘ladies’ bike’ to the nearby settlement of Obiaruku, where they were to meet the woman he referred to as Iron Lady.

“She’ll explain this thing to you well. She’s a retired nurse,” he added, as the bike sputtered along the dusty roads.

When they arrived, Iron Lady looked frail, her skin pale. She sat as though she had used the last of her strength just to remain upright.

“Our girls have been doing it. It is not new, but the truth is that many have gone down that path. I am a retired nurse from the Delta State Ministry of Health. I served here in Obiaruku for years before I was transferred.

“I first heard of this around 2006 —that girls would intentionally get pregnant if they were ‘too slim,’ and when they noticed they had started adding weight, they would terminate the pregnancy.

“Abortion comes with its own complications, but one of the ‘side effects’ of abortion is that it can sometimes cause women to gain weight. However, I must stress that this doesn’t work for everyone, and it’s mostly unsafe in Nigeria because, to some extent, it’s illegal,” she added, her voice trailing off.

The sun had begun to set, and the crickets emerged, chirping the night’s song. Chiedu suggested we set out for another location, where Ego had mentioned a woman who lost her child to this dangerous practice was willing to speak.

It was nearing 8pm, and the streets were growing emptier and quieter, except for a few children playing with fire and the faint sound of a church service echoing from afar.

We soon arrived at the house, but the woman (whose name is withheld) seemed unaware of our visit.

“She (Ego) told you people to come here and ask me questions about Prisca, who died over six years ago?” she asked in an Igbo dialect, which only Chiedu could understand. After much pleading, the woman, who said she was trying to move on, asked us to return the next day after she had spoken to her husband.

Later, our correspondent learned from Ego that the woman was a single mother who had lost her husband years ago. It was clear that she didn’t want to revisit the tragedy of Prisca.

Still, Ego explained that Prisca had gone through the weight-gain process, getting pregnant by a youth corper named Israel, who, according to Ego, had told Prisca she was too slim to be his girlfriend.

“The boy confessed in front of the entire community back then. It’s common knowledge. I don’t know why Mama Prisca refused to talk.

“Prisca was around 19 or 20 years old when it happened. She bled to death because the abortion was carried out by quacks,” Ego shared, her voice heavy with sorrow.

A medical doctor practising in Asaba, who requested anonymity, confirmed that the practice was widespread in the area.

“From Warri to Sapele, Benin to Port Harcourt, and other parts of the South-South zone where my job has taken me, we’ve heard such stories in whispers. We’ve treated several complications after multiple abortions.

“There’s an obsession with the new body that these ladies achieve, so they’re willing to endure the painful process repeatedly to maintain it,” the internal medicine physician told Saturday PUNCH.

“But it’s sheer foolishness because it doesn’t work for everyone—it’s like fetching water with a basket. I can’t even understand why women would subject themselves to such risks,” he added with a heavy sigh.

At the lobby of the Port Harcourt International Airport, as our correspondent prepared to depart for Lagos, more leads emerged on X, where several medical professionals were willing to share with our reporter real-life accounts of women who lost their lives due to this risky weight-gain procedure.

Scrolling through several posts as far back as 2019, Saturday PUNCH realised the rumours had lingered.

It has been a quieter story, whispered in the private spaces shared between women—a story so unspoken, yet so widely known, it lingers in the shadows like a haunting melody.

This is a story of bodies—of weight, of curves, of the delicate dance between vanity and vulnerability. In a world where a woman’s worth can often be measured by the contours of her silhouette, where every inch gained or lost is scrutinised like the strokes of an artist’s brush on canvas, some women find themselves on an unexpected, perilous journey.

In a world where beauty is often a currency, the burden of being invisible weighs heavily on some women. And so, some turn to the unthinkable, the unspeakable—they turn to life itself.

Pregnancy, that sacred act of creation, that miracle woven into the fabric of human existence, is now wielded with strange intent. She conceives, fully aware that the child will never be born.

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Yes,that is what is reigning among young girls these days.

It has been confirmed to be true...they say it is for weight gain and beauty.

Some women are worse than Boko Haram and Talibans ,the only difference is they don't need a gun to kill.This is shocking, I wonder what they will tell their creator at the heaven gate when they die in the process of doing this shit.

This type of reasoning from the 'GIRLs' is a FLAWED type of reasoning.

The mugus will not go online or ask medical officers about the side effects of such practice.

They just hear about something and boom copy and paste verbatim. They wanna have d perfect body - 😂

Na dem sabi. Make dem continue. The evils u plant today is what u'll harvest. Simple law of nature

I find this ridiculous

Recklessness mostly caused their pregnancy not something deliberate

The way young ladies fear pregnancy heh even though money temptations always lead them to unplanned sex

I highly doubt this.

Evil is now main stream, people have lost touch with humanity completely just to gratify the flesh.

Just when I thought I've heard it all 😞💔💔

Awon jennyclay....

High rates of abortion is one of the reasons we see too many young girls out there with saggy tits.

ChiefJusticeFuc:
I don't know about you but I have a fetish for natural sagging tits.

Abeg stop yapping nonsense. We're talking about the ripple effects of abortion here Mr man. Nobody cares about your fetishes.

Girls and women should learn to decenter men from their lives, so they can appreciate all the world and life has to offer. Everything is not all about men.

Most of Nigerian girls are moving around with a ghost haunted Puna.

richiemcgold:
One of the reasons we see too many young girls out there with saggy tits

I don't know about you but I have a fetish for natural sagging tits.

D one my ex gf did... she still nor fine

When leadership is decayed
The society follows

morality wasn't this dead under the military

The civilians are the beast in human form

Women are inherently evil. Doubt it all you want, but one day, you'll see the truth for yourself. Just pray you won't be the victim.

Omoluabi16:
I highly doubt this.

Anyone with common sense or firsthand knowledge of pregnancy would definitely doubt the possibility of getting pregnant and aborting at 5mths to gain weight. A whole 20wks+ pregnancy cannot be aborted medically and even women who have done evacuation for the right reasons dread the process. Not forgetting the first trimester isn't a nice one for many women. If there is anything, they would lose weight. There are enough drugs for weight gain that can be gotten OTC.

It's their body's anyway. They might meet their maker quick tho

Another reason for me to marry a virgin, so I don't end up with a terrorist.
Abortionists are terrorists.

helinues:
I find this ridiculous

Recklessness mostly caused their pregnancy not something deliberate

The way young ladies fear pregnancy heh even though money temptations always lead them to unplanned sex

There are girls who do that intentionally and for that singular purpose.

pocohantas:
Anyone with common sense or firsthand knowledge of pregnancy would definitely doubt the possibility of getting pregnant and aborting at 5mths to gain weight. A whole 20wks+ pregnancy cannot be aborted medically and even women who have done evacuation for the right reasons dread the process. Not forgetting the first trimester isn't a nice one for many women. If there is anything, they would lose weight. There are enough drugs for weight gain that can be gotten OTC.

Not up to 5 months, but it happens... As for the first trimester not being nice for women, not for these girls... They flaunt it around and even do baby shower for it,before removing it ... Come area come see something

Yampotatocarrot:
Not up to 5 months, but it happens... As for the first trimester not being nice for women, not for these girls... They flaunt it around and even do baby shower for it,before removing it ... Come area come see something

Nobody does babyshower in the first trimester and all the supposed perks highlighted in the opening post do not happen in the first trimester for MOST women.

the person who wrote this has clearly not lived with a woman who is pregnant

Truly we are in the end of times

I swear it is soooo sexy!

ChiefJusticeFuc:
I don't know about you but I have a fetish for natural sagging tits.

wonder233:
I swear it is soooo sexy!

Especially when the chic is slim and has a jiggly ass .

I doubt this story. Obviously the writer has never been with a pregnant woman

You have nailed it! That's my spec

ChiefJusticeFuc:
Especially when the chic is slim and has a jiggly ass .

COOL10:
Women are inherently evil. Doubt it all you want, but one day, you'll see the truth for yourself. Just pray you won't be the victim.

Even the Bible God had to bypass the male sperm, not the female egg, to come as Jesus, to come show an example to men on how to live, and give them a second chance on redemption, but alas it has not worked. Men are still roaming around looking for whom to kill, rape, destroy etc etc. Any small chance is an opportunity for men to commit atrocities, especially upon the female specie.