My Mother Couldn't Save Me | FGM Survivor At 5 | Model & Author Djabu Balde | Her Side of the Stories

When Model & Author Djabu Balde was five years old, she was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), which she nearly didn’t survive. She was born in a small village in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and for most of her life she has carried this in silence, until now.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Djabu speaks publicly about her experience for the very first time. About her mother who tried to stop it from happening. About her father who didn’t show up to stop it. About the body she had to learn to live in again, the years of therapy, the fear of being touched, the slow, careful work of reclaiming her own sexuality. And the book she has written so that other girls do not have to live what she lived.This is a conversation about FGM — but it is also about a mother’s love that crossed an ocean. About migrating to a new country with nothing but a dream. About surviving an abusive home. About becoming a mother herself with an empty fridge and a one-year-old son. About forgiveness, about faith, and about a relentless amount of strength.Djabu is an actress, model, and now author. Her book is her offering to the millions of girls still subjected to this practice, one every twelve minutes, every day. This is Her Side of the Stories. Her voice. Her truth. Her side. FOLLOW DJABU BALDEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/djabubalde_/Book: https://www.amazon.es/Entre-dos-madres-Djabu-Balde-ebook/dp/B0H1QJS9LN FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIESYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficialSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8gApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestoriesWebsite: www.hersideofthestories.com FOLLOW ASAL ZARAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766#endfgm #fgmsurvivor #djabubalde #hersideofthestories #asalzara