Veekee James, the celebrity fashion designer, says she can’t allow her husband to have a female best friend.
James announced her marriage to Femi Atere in October 2023. The couple held lavish traditional and white weddings in Akwa Ibom and Lagos in 2024.
In an interview with Off The Top, the fashion designer stated that she does not permit Atere to have a female best friend, declaring herself his one and only lifelong confidante.
She challenged the concept of a married man maintaining such a close platonic bond with another woman, insisting that she fulfils that role entirely.
“A man can have a female best friend, but my husband can never. I am my husband’s only best friend for life,” she said.
“He cannot have me and another; it is just me. Any man who wants to can have a female best friend, but my husband is the exception because it simply doesn’t make sense to me.”
Extending her view to married women, James argued that a wife should seek primary emotional support and companionship from her own spouse.
“Even if the lady is married, she should be her husband’s best friend. Her husband should be her solace, her hiding place and her refuge,” she said.
“Why is she looking for a best friend in my husband? It is not possible. There is no space for that. He does not have room for such; he is occupied with me.”
The fashion designer recently revealed that she cried for days and almost slipped into depression over allegations that she ‘snatched’ her husband from a friend.
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