Mo Bimpe Opens Up: “I Was Left Out of Kids’ Parties Because I Had None”

Mo Bimpe gets emotional after a baby’s birthday party, opening up about years of being excluded from kids’ events while trying to conceive.

Ever gone to a party and come home feeling heavier than when you left? That’s exactly what happened to Mo Bimpe.

The actress recently attended little Rakeem’s first birthday, he’s the son of Priscilla Ojo and her husband, Juma Jux. It should’ve been a simple, happy outing. Instead, it stirred up something Mo Bimpe hadn’t fully dealt with.
She came home and cried. Not because anything went wrong at the party, but because it reminded her of a season in her life she’d rather forget.

Before she became a mother, Mo Bimpe says she was quietly cut off from a whole world of celebrations. Baby showers, naming ceremonies, kids’ birthdays, the invites just stopped coming. And these weren’t strangers doing this. These were people close to her.

“I remember wondering what I had done wrong,” she said. It took a while before she found out the real reason: people were leaving her out simply because she didn’t have children yet.

Let that sink in for a second. Not because she was rude, or distant, or did anything wrong. Just because of something she had zero control over.

If you’ve ever struggled to have a child, or know someone who has, you’ll understand how much this stings. Trying to conceive already comes with enough weight, the waiting, the prying questions, the careless comments people throw around without thinking. Mo Bimpe put it simply: “The insults are hard. The silent prayers are hard.” Now imagine carrying all of that while also being quietly shut out of the good moments too.

That’s really the heart of her message. She’s not asking for pity. She’s asking people to think twice before excluding someone just because their life doesn’t look a certain way yet. As she said, “A woman without a child is not less deserving of love, friendship, inclusion, or celebration.”

It hits differently coming from her, because we now know how her story turned out. Earlier this year, Mo Bimpe and her husband, actor Lateef Adedimeji, welcomed triplet boys after years of hoping and waiting. She’s since talked about the shift from “waiting to wonder” and “tears to thanksgiving.”

But she clearly hasn’t forgotten how the wait felt. And honestly, that’s what makes this so worth talking about, she’s using her happy ending to speak up for people still stuck in that painful middle part.