Photo shoot with grandmother, 108, is charming the internet
A 108-year-old woman has become a modeling sensation after a gorgeous photo shoot with her granddaughter hit social media.
Hannah Ajala,
24, a journalist with the BBC in London, tweeted a series of photos
starring herself and her grandmother on Saturday. “Photo shoot time with
my 108-year-old grandma,” read the tweet, which was liked 1,000 times
and shared more than 300.
PHOTOSHOOT TIME WITH MY 108-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA 💜 pic.twitter.com/Hd11Pc1lcE— Hannah Ajala (@hannah_ajala) October 28, 2017
She doesn’t even look 100 wow. God bless her— ηαηα үαω (@nhanha_yhaw) October 28, 2017
These pictures are priceless. And that smile. God bless Grandma— Segun Solar (@segunadaju) October 29, 2017
Wow what's her secret, some people can barely stand at 95?— Sandile Mkono (@MkonoSandile) October 29, 2017
Ajala
did not return Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but she tweeted a
10-minute video featuring an interview she conducted last year with the
matriarch, called “7 questions to my 107-year-old grandma.”
In the footage, shot in the centenarian’s home country of Nigeria, the journalist explains that she met her grandmother when
she was 7 months old. But only as an adult has she become “overly
fascinated, shocked, overwhelmed, grateful, and happy to say that I have
a grandma who’s 107 years old.”
The
grandmother, whose name is Moriyike Mojoyinola Abeke Ajala, reflects on
an early memory of giving birth to her first child only 31 days after
losing her own mother.
She
also shares a life lesson through the story of a local man with eight
wives for whom he couldn’t provide, which led him to turn to theft.
“What he should have done differently was maybe to marry four wives, or
two; that way he would have been able to properly cater for them,” she
says. “The main life lesson here is to not go beyond our boundaries.”
When
asked, “What’s one piece of advice you would give me as your
granddaughter?” the woman answers, “By the grace of God, I pray that
when you are married, and have your first child, I am still alive.”
Ajala
reveals that her dream is to have her grandmother walk her down the
aisle. However, she says, “I refused to feel pressurized by it. Because I
find that in my generation, there is a lot of pressure to get married. …
I think being a millennial, we’re just selfish and we just want to get
our life before we become a wife, as Beyoncé once said.”
The
grandmother also reflected on her marriage to “Granddad,” saying, “Yes,
I really loved my husband. I was my husband’s only wife.”
Ajala
explains that her grandmother is monogamous, despite her Muslim faith
and community that practices polygamy. “She was also quite logical, and I
think that’s why she established that with her husband that ‘I am yours
and you are mine and I don’t want any more drama. I don’t want to be a
second or third wife. … If you’re with me, you’re with me,’” she says.
“I respect that about her.”
For
the final question, “What message would you like to leave behind?” the
woman answers, “My advice to all my children, grandchildren, and
great-grandchildren is that they should be in unity with their wives,
and husbands, and children. I pray that your partner or children never
become your enemies. I want you to be one voice in your relationship. We
need to unite; we need to understand each other better. Continue to
love each other deeply. And please join hands together so that there
will be no more problems.”
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