In an exclusive interview with TopNaija.ng, star actress Monalisa Chinda-Coker explains what convinced her to marry her husband, Victor Tonye Coker, within a month, despite having resolved never to get married again due to previous horrifying experience.

According to the talk-show presenter, herself and her new husband, who had never been married for 45 year until their meeting, never had sex until they were officially married.

Monalisa, who also reveals she had never experienced true love prior to meeting Coker also described her three-year-old marriage as one filled with filled with truth, freedom and friendship, but not without fights.

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Actress Monalisa Chinda was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to Igbo parents. She is the first born in her family of two sons and four daughters. She attended Army Children’s School GRA for Primary and then Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls’ School, Elelenwo. Both schools are located in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She obtained a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Port Harcourt.

Monalisa’s first major movie was Pregnant Virgin, which she did in 1996 and subsequently, after she graduated in 2000, she did Above the Law and has done many others since then.

In 2007 her road to stardom kicked off when she started appearing in the television soap Heaven’s Gate. In 2011, she debuted as Executive Producer in the Royal Arts Academy movie, ‘Kiss & Tell’, which Emem Isong co-produced with her and Desmond Elliot directed. In 2012, she became one of the first of four Nollywood actors to be featured on the cover of Hollywood Weekly Magazine. This November, 2014 the actress is branching out of acting a little bit and is set to debut her Talk Show titled ‘You & I with Monalisa.”