Age is just a number when it comes to love, a point that 56-year-old grandmother of 12 Angela Peters is living proof of. She shocked the world when she divorced her husband of decades, wedded a younger Nigerian man, and recently gave birth to twin girls.
Angela, who grew up in Australia, confessed she was miserable in her marriage for decades before eventually leaving it in 2019. She had five adult children from two marriages and thought she was done having children by then.
“I thought motherhood was done,” she said. “I was ready to focus on myself, travel, and have my own business.”
But fate had other ideas. Angela went on an online dating platform in March 2020 and connected with Emeka, a Nigerian gentleman who resided in Senegal. They talked frequently, but the flame fizzled out until he introduced her to his brother, Bright.
“It was like a lightning bolt,” Angela said. “When I saw the picture of Bright, I knew that he was the one.”
Bright, who was working in South Africa at the time, was unmarried and had no children. With their 20-year age gap and Angela’s own admission that she couldn’t bear another child, Bright was undeterred. He even bragged that they would end up having twin girls.
The pair met for the first time in February 2021 when Angela flew to Nigeria. Sparks flew instantly. “Hugging him felt like I’d known him all my life,” she said. Bright proposed the very next day. Nine days later, they tied the knot in a quiet civil ceremony.
Her kids were traumatized. They thought it was a scam and could not believe how fast things moved. Angela also worried Bright would never become a father, so she tried IVF at 54—only to find that Australia’s cut-off age was 52.
Undaunted, Angela looked elsewhere. On a trip to Nigeria, a clinic recommended proceeding with a donor egg and Bright’s sperm. The treatment worked miraculously.
In December 2023, they received the news everyone had waited for—they were having twins. A scan later confirmed Bright’s prediction: two baby girls.
Angela gave birth in August 2024 to healthy twins, Khorus and Knowyn, in Nigeria. “It was surreal,” she told us. “Changing nappies felt like riding a bike again.”
Not everyone was pleased for her, though. Her detractors went onto social media and criticized her as selfish to give birth at this advanced age. Angela replied: “When men give birth in their 60s, nobody says anything. Why is it a woman can’t?
All the backlash notwithstanding, Angela is living her dream now. Her own family members, who had initially questioned Bright, have accepted Bright. She documents her journey on TikTok to encourage women who also want to become mothers at an advanced age.
“To those who still dream, don’t give up,” she said. “My journey took me around the world, but it brought me love and two beautiful daughters. My hands and my heart are full.”.
