Afraid that having children with her “ugly” but otherwise great husband would cause them to end up looking horrible, a Ghanian woman allegedly decided to secretly have four kids with her handsome ex-boyfriend.

African social media has been abuzz with news of a vain Ghanian woman who married a successful, hardworking, and caring man despite his less than adequate looks. The fact that he was ugly, by her standards, didn’t bother who too much until they decided to try for a baby. She loved everything else about him, but she couldn’t risk giving birth to ugly children, so she always made sure to take birth control pills after sleeping with him. At one point, they went to a fertility clinic and they both turned out to be healthy, which the woman already knew, so in order not to raise her husband’s suspicion, she came out with a twisted yet ingenious plan…

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The anonymous woman detailed her diabolical plan in a letter to Accra-based radio station Hitz FM, revealing that in order to make sure she gave birth to attractive children, and also make her husband happy, she decided to contact her handsome ex-boyfriend. He was also married, but he had always been promiscuous, so it wasn’t hard for the woman to convince him to have an affair.

In order to avoid unnecessary drama, the woman always told her lover that she had taken birth control, when in fact she had meant to get pregnant. She would then sleep with her husband as well, to make him think that he had impregnated her. This way, she was the only one who knew who her beautiful children’s father was.

The woman’s plan worked beautifully, and she was allegedly able to give birth to three attractive children, with the fourth on the way as well. Unfortunately, things got a little complicated recently, after her husband won an American visa lottery. She claims that the process also requires DNA tests for the applicant’s family at some point, which will reveal that the kids are not really his.

The concerned woman asked the radio show host how best to handle the situation, tell her husband the truth now, or wait until the test result comes in.