'Real Housewives of Dubai' Star Chanel Ayan Opens Up About Surviving Forced Genital Mutilation at Age 5

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Chanel Ayan is opening up about her childhood abuse. During the latest episode of Real Housewives of Dubai on Wednesday (August 17), Chanel shared in a hypnotherapy session that she and her older sister were victims of forced genital mutilation as young children, and their family had no idea it happened. Click inside to read more… “At 5-years-old, my aunt and my grandma came to pick us up to take us to another town,” Chanel shared during the episode. “And then the next morning at 6 a.m., I didn’t know where I was going whatsoever and then they took us to this man’s house and they just tied us on the bed and we were circumcised.” Throughout the first season, Chanel has opened up about her traumatic upbringing, including that her father used to beat her. “The crying, the sadness, the beatings,” Chanel said through tears while talking about her childhood. “That’s what I remember.

A lot of pain.” While speaking with the therapist, Chanel went into further detail about her physical and emotional abuse. “We were tied in the legs,” Chanel shared. “Couldn’t pee.

Couldn’t move. When we needed to pee, they would carry us and put us on the grass. I just didn’t understand what the hell was going on whatsoever and my mom didn’t know that that was happening to us.” After meeting now-husband Christopher, Chanel – who was a virgin at the time – recalled going to a doctor to get her circumcision medically fixed so that she could be intimate with her husband. “I couldn’t have sex,” Chanel explained. “And then I had to wait until I healed.” Despite her horrific childhood, Chanel has tried her hardest to find the silver linings in her trauma. “I’ve tried to understand,” Chanel said in her confessional. “The reason that I’m talking