Olajumoke Orisaguna, the popular agege bread seller cum model was born in 1989 and brought up in Ire, Osun State, South western part of Nigeria. Olajumoke as popularly known, was a trained hairdresser when she met her artisan boyfriend cum husband known as Sunday Orisaguna. They got married in 2010 and blessed with two (2) children.
How She Made It To Stardom (Olajumoke’s Success Story)
Orisaguna journeyed to Lagos with one of her children where she yearned to make more money from sales of bread, while her husband stayed behind with one of the kids where he worked installing sliding doors. While she was working in Lagos, she was captured in the background of a picture taken by a popular Nigerian singer and photographer TY Bello when a photo-shoot was going on with a British rapper Tinie Tempah. While later appraising and checking the images she (TY Bello) had taken, Olajumoke’s picture at the background captivated TY Bello and that was how it all started, the search for Olajumoke the bread began as she was seen as one with all the qualities of a super model. After posting on Instagram, Bello located Orisaguna and offered to launch her career. She arranged for Orisaguna’s portrait to appear on the cover of Style magazine and planned to create a documentary about her.
Olajumoke Orisaguna was later offered a modelling contract, internships and work, despite her inability to speak English. Trailing Olajumoke’s success, her husband and her other child moved to Lagos, today, Olajumoke Orisaguna is seen by many as a girl with a special grace covering, a Midas touch and a force to reckon with.
Popular American basic cable and satellite television channel CNN, also reported that she will be offered some education and a bank has offered to pay the fees for her children to attend school.
Olajumoke’s Endorsements and Net Worth
Owing to Olajumoke’s success story, many companies saw it as a strategic move to portray their various brands in positive light by being associated with the rave of the moment Olajumoke Oridaguna, the various companies saw this as an investment, branding and marketing strategy and this in turn has brought a huge success to the former bread seller.
With various endorsements ranging from Payporte, an online shopping site for electronics, smartphones, trendy fashion, accessories, shoes, and beauty products in Nigeria, her endorsement deal with this company is worth 1m Naira
Shirleys’s Confectionaries also endorsed Olajumoke and this deal is worth millions of Naira, she was made the face of Stanbic IBTC which was another juicy endorsement deal she landed, Sujimoto Constructions gave her an apartment and paid her 5year rent in advance, this is a correction from the widely circulated story that Sjimoto constructions actually bought Olajumoke a house, Divine Endocuments and Mrs Abiodun of Biobak Restaurants deals she landed alongside other juicy endorsements lurking around, Olajumoke’s net worth moved from single digit to 8 digits!! What a transformation this is.
With her current endorsements and deals, Olajumoke’s is worth over 20million Naira. The sky is the starting point for this young las, hopefully she gets a honest managerial team.