RHODubai Star Chanel Ayan Reveals She Underwent Forced Genital Mutilation At 5 Years Old

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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Chanel Ayan opened up about a painful childhood experience.

During an episode of The Real Housewives of Dubai this week, the 41-year-old reality star attended a hypnotherapy session with her co-star Dr.

Sara Al-Madani, where she revealed she and her older sister were circumcised against their will at the ages of five and six respectively.

Chanel tearfully recalled that the mutilation occurred when her aunt and grandmother brought her to a random stranger who “sewed” their genitals shut, telling her therapist: Related: Jennette McCurdy Details Her Mom’s ‘Abuse’ & ‘Conditioning’ To Become Child Star While Chanel – who has been open about her traumatic upbringing before – confessed she doesn’t “have a lot of memories because I feel like I block things,” she does remember “the crying, the sadness, the beatings.” She add: Before getting married to her husband Christopher, the Bravo personality shared in a confessional that she had her circumcision medically fixed in order to be intimate with someone else: It’s just heartbreaking to think that Chanel had to go through this so young… Since sharing her trauma with the world, Chanel recounted to People the moment she told Chris about her genital mutilation for the first time back when they were dating and soon realized they had some big cultural differences: Even though Chanel received a positive reaction from Christopher, she still kept her circumcision a secret, including from her husband’s family who only found out because of the show: She was also concerned about what her 16-year-old son Taj might think once the news was out: But that being said, the mom said she is determined to use her voice to advocate for others and bring