Why I went nude for my son – Ghanaian actress

Why I went nude for my son – Ghanaian actress

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 7:49 am


Ghanaian actress and video vixen, Akuapem Poloo with 7-year-old son

By Nehru Odeh

Ghanaian actress and video vixen, Akuapem Poloo  literally set the internet on fire when she posted a photo of herself completely nude in front of her seven year old son on Instagram  to mark his seventh birthday anniversary

The actress said in the  emotion-laden post that she decided to go naked  in front of her son because she gave birth to him naked.

She wrote:

“Son today reminds me of the very day I gave birth to you with no stress and with no regret…..30th June 2013 exactly 4:46am Sunday.

Haha I still remember this date because it’s really meant a lot to me, I only felt the 30 minutes pain when you were turning to come out you were soo good to me.

I gave birth with no complication, no cut no disability Haha I love you son. You see how you looking at me always remember that I love you.

I’m naked in front of you because this is how naked I was giving birth to you, so in case you find me naked lying somewhere don’t pass by me but rather see me as your mom who brought you to life.”

Though many have criticized the actress for posting naked in front of her seven year old son, what the actress did goes beyond just posing naked. Nakedness symbolizes bareness, being natural self and the truth.

There is a way in which nakedness means one has nothing to hide, that one is revealing herself to the other, true, pure and untainted by socialization, culture, religion, modernization etc.

It is the actress telling her seven year old son, “This is me, my natural self, before socialization and acculturation turned me into something else. I don’t have anything to hide.

That is the reason she said: “I’m naked in front of you because this is how naked I was giving birth to you, so in case you find me naked lying somewhere don’t pass by me but rather see me as your mom who brought you to life.”

Nothing can be further than the truth. Which truth? you ask. The actress’ truth. As Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher would say, truth is relative and beyond good and evil.

Nakedness symbolizes life. It symbolizes nature. It symbolizes the mother earth. It symbolizes truthfulness. It symbolizes the opening of one’s heart to the other. It symbolizes unconditional love, love untainted by societal prejudices, the natural being, the way Adam and Eve were before the fall of man, before the loss of innocence.

“Haha I love you son. You see how you looking at me always remember that I love you,” she said.

Man was indeed created naked, without clothes, without prejudices, without hate, without presumptions. That indeed is the reason why creation is about nakedness, sacrifice, the opening of oneself to the other, without the fear of being taken advantage of.

And that is also the reason why the actress said:  ’m naked in front of you because this is how naked I was giving birth to you.”

If one is always naked while giving birth, then creation is about giving oneself to the object being created. It’s like Mother Earth opening herself to us, sacrificing herself so that we may live. Little wonder love making is all about nakedness, about truthfulness, about sacrifice.

But since  the fall of man, he has put love making  to bad use. We have destroyed Mother Earth and continue to destroy her because of our greed, prejudices, dishonesty and hate.  Before we crucify the actress, let him who has not sinned cast the first stone. This indeed is the actress’ own truth.


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  • Kirk Selvaggio says:

    I view the philosophical perspectives expressed by this young mother as the most relevant to my own attitudes about body image, self esteem, honesty without fear of losing respect between family members, and acceptance and appreciation of the complexities of life in regards to all that we know, think we know, and don’t have a clue if beyond the empowerment we can derive from allowing ourselves to admit we don’t have all the answers, and the pride we feel in being O.K. with that as long as we have a means of finding the right inspiration too recognizing the questions we should be asking, without any immediate expectations of recieving answers we are not wise enough to comprehend intellectually, but with an open heart and an open mind, can relate too intuitively.
    With love and trust on our side, infinite wisdom shared between parent and child transcend infinite knowledge, when complete awareness of that love and trust a mother and her son feel for each other, manifest the strongest connection there is.

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