Hilda Effiong Bassey who is popularly known as Hilda Baci, is a 27-year-old celebrity chef who has made Nigerians and African proud globally with her latest feat, glamsquad reports
READ ALSO: Chef Hilda Baci awarded scholarship until PhD by Madonna University
On Monday 15th May, Hilda broke world record for the ‘Longest Cooking Marathon’ by an individual after she cooked for a marathon of 100 hours non-stop thereby imprinting her name not only in the Guinness World Record but in the hearts of people globally.
She broke the pre-existing record of 87 hours 45 minutes which was held by Lata Tondon, an Indian chef.
Before the Cook-a-thon competition, Hilda was only known by a limited proportion of people on social media and outside social media as a chef who does her business thing.
She had about 100k plus followers on her Instagram page but since shooting into limelight with the Cook-a-thon competition, her Instagram page has grown to over a million followers. Though her win is yet to be made official by Guinness Book of Records.
Aside her latest fame, business life, goodwills, compensations that accompanies the life of a celebrity, what does her life looks like behind the scene!
An actress, TV producer, show host and business woman, Hilda was born on 20th September 1996, into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Effiong Bassey, indigenes of Akwa Ibom State, South Eastern Nigeria. She had her university education at Madonna University Okija where she bagged a degree in Sociology.
Baci started her cooking career in 2020. In the last three years she has developed her culinary skills, learnt and unlearnt and become flatout in her career as a chef.
According to reports she started her restaurant by selling food online from the comfort of her home, when she was still living with her brother. Her business grew and expanded thus she had to move out and get her own space.
Presently she has a walk-in restaurant in Lekki area of Lagos, named @Myfoodbyhilda, with branches across Nigeria.
Despite her building from scratch to becoming a brand with employees working for her, Hilda is fully involved in her business as she is the CEO and head Chef of @Myfoodbyhilda.
READ ALSO: “I can’t wait to be official” — Chef Hilda Baci says as Guinness World Record begins review
Hilda has a perfectly built body inclusive of flat tummy, big butts, big boobs and straight back. The actress reportedly underwent a tummy tuck surgery and liposuction recently before she came into the spotlight. This is the reason for her perfect body and she never ceases to show off her beautiful body in beautiful pictures with hot poses.
The question about her marital status has been popping up from different angles especially on social media. Many social media users want to know whether she is married or in a relationship.
Research into her personal life reveals that she is not married but it is unconfirmed if she is in a relationship. There are unconfirmed reports that she is in a serious yet private relationship which she is keeping away from public glare.
Hilda is used to sharing videos and pictures of her romantic moments with a mystery man on her social media pages even though she is yet to reveal him. Also there are no proofs that she has child/children.
Hilda is no doubt financially stable, she might not be a billionaire but she is probably a millionaire. Few days after her world breaking record she took to TikTok and shared a video of the interiors of her fully automated house.
She gave her fans and followers a tour of her luxuriously furnished house stating that the kitchen is her favorite room because it is where she creates her cooking contents.
According to her, she can open the door to her house with her mobile phone anywhere in the world.
She added that she has a robot in her house that does everything for her like opening and closing the curtain, switching on and off the television among others.
“I have an Alexa that does everything from opening the curtain, turning on and off the tv, among others,” Hilda said.
Written by Victoria Adebimpe