2Face and Annie's ‘Love Story’: How they met at age 15, how they suffered etcetera

Nice! After all the ups and downs, the breakups, cheating and all; they still ended up together!

How They Met

Annie first met 2face Idibia at Even Ezra Music Studio when she was just fifteen and in her words, “I think there was some electricity that second.”

They were friends first but had started dating officially by the time they shot the “African Queen” video in 2004. That was when 2Face announced that they were together during an interview.

I remember my 16th birthday at Alpha Beach, with me and my friends. When we were going home, we all walked to the bus stop with him and his cousin. Plantashun Boiz had just recorded “Knock Me Off” at the time so he wasn’t a star yet.

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So we got into the bus, he sat in front with his cousin so when we wanted to pay the conductor, he said, “no, he done pay already” I was feeling like a babe. “Hey! My boyfriend paid everybody’s bus fare.” And that time, bus was like N2.50k or N3 per person for about 14 people. But he told me recently that he didn’t eat that night because he paid for everyone.” awwwwwww – Annie Idibia in the February 2013 issue of TW Magazine.

Soon Annie’s entertainment career became a lot more difficult as a result of being known as ’2Face’s girl’ and then they had their first breakup, came back, broke up again.

She was hurt when word got out that, in quick succession, 2Face had gotten two different women pregnant – Pero Adeniyi and Sumbo Ajala. At that point, the couple broke up.

When Pero and Sumbo yet again got pregnant for 2Face once again, that was when 2Face and Annie had their longest break-up which lasted almost a year and a half. But as they say, love will always find a way, they made up again and Annie gave birth to 2Face’s fifth child Isabel and then in 2012, Pero gave birth to his sixth child in the US. Well, Pero couldn't prevent them from being together.

In 2012, 2Face proposed to Annie on Valentine’s Day at Jay Jay Okocha’s Club 10 in Victoria Island, Lagos. And, they weren’t even dating then, although were still on talking terms after he had called her out of the blue a few weeks before, visited her at home and asked for her forgiveness and friendship.

According to eye-witness reports, 2Face took Annie to a quiet section of the club, he knelt down and told her “I KNOW WE HAVE HAD OUR UPS AND DOWNS BUT IT WILL BE MY HEART’S DESIRE FOR YOU TO MARRY ME” and then presented the dazzling ring and Annie began screaming “YES, YES, YES” after crying her eyes out.

Shortly after 2Face‘s concert when he brought out then fiancee, Annie during his performance of ‘African Queen’, the two secretly legalized their union in a Lagos registry on Tuesday, May 1 2012.

At the Surprise Party Annie hosted for 2Face's Birthday in 2012. 2Face, Annie and Isabel at a Party. There traditional wedding took place on Friday March 8, 2013, and with two big wedding parties before i.e. yesterday and today in Dubai at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel to a private island and more!...