Former Miss Nigeria UK queen and cosmetics entrepreneur Dabota Lawson has offered a vivid glimpse into the scale of the wealth and comfort she experienced as a child, saying her family home in Port Harcourt was expansive enough to feel like an estate.
She recalled that the property reflected the success of her parents and included amenities that many children only see in clubs or resorts, from sports courts to a playhouse and a guest wing. Her point, she said, was not to boast, but to correct the idea that she only encountered comfort after marriage.
By sharing these details, Dabota made clear that privilege was already part of her upbringing, and that any attempt to rewrite her life into a rescue narrative misses the reality of where she actually came from.
Dabota Lawson said: “My siblings, sometimes when people talk to them or my cousins about me, they’re just like, ‘Do you know the kind of life that Dabota lived growing up?’ This is a child that was given like they literally had everything. Going around my dad’s home in Port Harcourt was a long drive, you know, everything. Badminton court, basketball court, children playhouse, guest house, multiple rooms. My dad even had a chapel in the house. So that’s the kind of life that we had.”.....…