Veteran actress, Joke Silva, has voiced her opinion on the increasing rate of
celebrity divorces in recent times and gave insight as
to why that is so.
The actress, who has been married to her actor husband for over three
decades, revealed that divorce is not more prevalent among celebrities than
it is with couples in other professions who are not so popular.
According to her, celebrities seem to be more hit by divorce only because
they are in the public eye therefore whatever happens to them is made
public. Read what she wrote after the cut...
“It is because the younger generation are very popular because of social
media, and so, whatever happens to them becomes news; forgetting that
there are as many divorces, there as many separations in other professions
such as medical, financial, legal among others. Name any profession; there
are so many separations in those as well,” she told New Telegraph.
The mother-of-two fingered social media as the major challenge facing
celebrity marriages and advised celebrities to learn how to manage what
they put out for others to see, that way they can still keep the important
parts of their lives private and secure.
“There are a lot of challenges that are being faced by artistes of this
particular generation; and one of those challenges is the social media, which
almost doesn’t allow you your life. People of my age, when we were getting
all the attention, and we were feeling like we were the best thing, things
were different. You need all the attention anyway.
For your work to sell,
you need that popularity. It goes with the job, so you need that
popularity. But after a while, you also get to learn that it can be a
double edge sword. So, it is about managing it, appreciating the audience
for appreciating your work, but also giving yourself that limit to what
aspect of you they can experience.
“In this age of reality shows where nothing seems to be off limit, the new
skill that the entertainer has to learn is how much do you give your
audience? More so, because you don’t want to be false; like used to
happen in the early years of Hollywood where they would create this
incredible image, and then it was almost impossible for the performer to
live under that image; and a lot of them used to use all kinds of
medications just to fit a particular image that was being built around
them. Now, we are in the age of social media, so it is learning how to
cope with social media, to do the work that social media does, which is to
get your work out there, to get your face out there. But then limit that
too so that you do have a life; so that you can have some modicum of
emotional privacy. Those are the challenges that I know that the younger
generation face.''
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