As we celebrate Women’s Month and in time for her 50th birthday next month, actress Nadia Montenegro showed her recent images and expressed how grateful she is for overcoming 14 surgeries and a number of struggles and defeats.
On Instagram, Nadia said she is embracing all her imperfections and signs of aging as she welcomes her golden year.
“Turning 50 next month and embracing every wrinkle, white hair, scar, blemish, and flaw and loving it. After 14 surgeries (three on my blind left eye, seven births via cesarian, one ovarian cyst surgery, two liposuctions hahahaha opo, nagpa-lipo pa ako niyang lagay na ‘yan, one gastric lap band, obviously malfunctioned), four broken ribs, two car accidents, one accident falling off a four-story building at the age of nine, lost everything in a fire at seven years old, experienced two typhoons and flooded twice, diagnosed with WPWS (heart) l, Diabetes, etc., etc.,” she wrote in the caption of the photos; adding some more tough battles she faced in life within almost five decades.
“Life struggles and losses, losing loved ones (losing Boy was the hardest), going through depression, battled several court cases,” she continued. “I entered showbiz at 11, worked all my life, struggles of the real world, now having eight children and a single parent, with the pandemic that everyone can relate to.”
But despite being tested over and over, and getting some of the hardest roles in the real world, Nadia continues to thank God for making her a really strong woman and undeniably a believer of Him.
“He never gave up on me. Now that I am so much wiser than yesterday, I have found my purpose. I only have two choices in life. I please God not man!” she expressed. “God had it all planned and no amount of gratitude can ever repay the unconditional love, grace, mercy, and favor He has given me.”
With this, she left John 10:9 to everyone who sees her post, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”