Fantastic Four: Why I Stopped Posting Pictures With Omoni, Chioma, and Uche – Ufuoma McDermott Reveals

Nollywood actress, Ufuoma McDermott has revealed why she stopped posting photos with Omoni Oboli, Chioma Akpotha, Uche Jombo.

Recall that years back, the actresses, popularly known as Fantastic Four, used to flaunt their unique friendship that was the envy of many.

All four of them used to vacation together and post group photos together from all over the world.

However, they sparked rumour about their friendship turning sour after they stopped posting themselves together as much as they used to.

Speaking during the Inkblot Meet & Greet podcast, Ufuoma McDermott revealed the real reason why she, Chioma Akpotha, Omoni Oboli and Uche Jombo are no longer posting themselves on social media.

She said;

“Before Wives on Strike, Chioma Akpotha, Omoni Oboli, Uche Jombo and myself were close individually but together, no. We bonded when we were filming Wives on Strike because individually I had known all of these girls but we just became closer spending time filming Wives on Strike.

The conditions under which we shot that film, God! We just had to bond. Sometimes we’d want to do makeup and Omoni would say “e be like say you no know you be market woman”, I would be like “come on now, the brand”, she’ll say “Which brand? You’re a market woman. Off your cloth!” (laughs).

So under all of those things – finding ourselves changing on the road, you know, we just had to bond. I don’t think there was anywhere to go from there.

But if you notice, for some time we haven’t appeared in each other’s projects. Here’s the thing: I don’t like that slogan, “women supporting women”, because I don’t hear men saying “men supporting men” unless they’re trying to diss women.

I don’t like to say it because we put too much emphasis on the negative of women being together as against the positive. So what we’re invariably doing is making people focus on seeing a group of friends together and saying “oh my God, this is wonderful, women don’t do this” so we’re trying hard to break that. Before now, when we’re together, we’ll film, put on Instagram, and people would be excited.

We don’t do that anymore because we feel like we might even be giving the wrong vibes. We want you to find your compatibility naturally. We want you to be able to come and say “you’re a guy, I’m a girl, we have this project together and we can run it”. It doesn’t matter what our gender is.

You’re a woman, I’m a woman, we can run it together. We want you to find it not because you’re trying to prove a point that women don’t support women, we want you to prove a point that we can do things together. We think that them always seeing us together in their head is making them think “wow, these women have been friends for such a long time when women cannot (be friends)” and we don’t want you thinking that.”

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