Popular socialite Vera Sidika opened up about the first man who dazzled her with gifts and money.
She admits that he is her first and only sponsor but highlights the fact that he was not married at the time of the relationship.
Vera described how besotted the businessman was with her and to show his appreciation he showered her with expensive gifts.
“That is normal, he gave me money. A lot of money. You cannot have a rich and successful man and you are looking jaded and broke. He would give me money for shopping. To say the truth, that is money, I had never seen in my entire life! He would give me money and it would shock me.”
After two or three weeks of him showering me with gifts and money, I thought to myself, ‘This is money I’m not used to getting. I have to start saving.’ I dated him for one and a half years. Every Friday, for all those years, I would go to the bank and deposit money he had given me.”
However, the fire in the romance died down. Vera narrates how it went down.
“A man who is successful in business can get any woman he so pleases, you cannot control him. You have to know that he may leave you and start going after other women. That is normal. It got to a point where we drifted apart and we broke up.
She added, “He had set me up in a lifestyle that was different from what I was used to. Like I had a driver, I had shifted from living in a bedsitter to a posher neighborhood. When we parted ways, my life had to revert back to square one.’
Vera explains what she did after the break up.
“If I was stupid and afraid of what my fellow classmates would say about me, I would have spent all the money I had saved to maintain that lifestyle, but I did not. I moved from the posh apartment and moved to a middle- class neighborhood and started using a matatu to school. But I knew that I had saved my millions from that relationship.”
Her pals in school laughed at her, Vera said this did not kill her spirit.
“When my lifestyle was good, I had many friends. When all that ended they ran away. I was laughed at, with people saying I have been dumped, ‘Nowadays she takes a matatu to school. The car was taken away.’. Only three friends stuck by my side and i cherish them.”
So what did she do with the money?
“I bought a property in Mombasa, and started investing in poultry farming at the same time, I was also modeling, featuring in videos and with time I blew up. And that was the starting point of my life as a businesswoman.”
“Later when my businesses picked up, people started saying, ‘Has she found another sponsor?’ But they had no idea what my game plan was.”
Now Vera Sidika is an established entrepreneur who runs her own beauty parlour.