17 August 2023

• The two have a beautiful 12-year-old daughter called Mumbus.

Judy Nyawira, the wife of actor Abel Mutua has opened up about how she got pregnant while she was still studying at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC) more than a decade ago.

In an interview with broadcaster Oga Obinna, Judy revealed that she was in her third year of college when she became pregnant with their only child, Stephanie Mumbua.

She said she began to suspect that she was pregnant about two weeks after she went home for the holidays.

"A week before we closed school, I had started to feel strange. I felt that my body was not normal. I started to feel that there was something here. The morning sickness had not yet started," Judy recounted.

She then went on to say, “Two weeks after I got home I started to feel bad. I saw there is something here, there must be something here. There was no morning sickness yet but I was already starting to feel something.

So we talked (with Abel) and I told him what I felt, there is someone inside this stomach. Sometimes women say they can't tell when they are pregnant but I felt it."

The mother of one revealed that by the time she became more concerned, she was already five weeks pregnant.

While she was still at home, she called Abel and informed him of her concerns before the actor advised her to lie to her mother and find a reason to return to Nairobi.

At that time, Abel had already finished school and was already working at Tahidi High. "He didn't want me to test alone, he should go and test together. I lied to my mother, she agreed and that's how I found myself in Nairobi and we tested on the same day. I didn't want to wait, I just wanted to know if it was true," said Judy.

She said the test they did confirmed her fear that she was indeed pregnant, which affected her psychologically.

"We measured and it was there, I cried and cried. I used to sleep, I cried until my head hurt, I slept again, I woke up remembering and started crying again. Abel was just comforting me. At the end of the day, we had a conversation, it's a conversation we needed to have about what I wanted to do with the pregnancy," she said.

She noted that she chose to keep the pregnancy and continued to carry it while still studying until she gave birth while working on her school project.

Judy revealed that she returned to school to finish her project just two weeks after giving birth and would leave her daughter with her in-law who she had gone to spend time with to give her a chance to finish her school project.