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“My father wanted me circumcised”: Amira Pocher talks about her childhood
Amira Pocher is very grateful to her mother for protecting her from childhood in Egypt
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In her podcast, Amira Pocher spoke about the difficult relationship with her father. And she reveals she’s grateful to her mother for protecting her from being circumcised.
Amira Pocher: Her father wanted her circumcised
The presenter knows today that her mother Miriam Svetnik protected her from many things that affected her father. And for that she is very grateful. Because Pocher’s father left the family when she was very young herself. “My mom was a single parent with two children, I was three at the time, my brother was five and she didn’t get a cent from my father. He’s in Egypt,” she says. “From one day to the next” he was gone and her mother received state support.
Her mother is the strongest woman she knows. In order to take care of her two children, Svetnik even had to take on two or even three jobs at times. Instead of in Egypt, the children could grow up in Austria. However, Svetnik found it difficult to hide her anger towards the father of her children, Amira Pocher recalls. She always knew her mother thought he was a bad person. There was “violence involved,” she reveals.
Genital mutilation more common
A few years ago, Amira Pocher talked about her father’s intentions to have her circumcised in her podcast with husband Oliver. “Basically, it’s about the woman no longer feeling lust or no longer having a G-spot. The outer and inner labia are cut away,” she said at the time. Recently, the number of female genital mutilations has increased worldwide. According to the German Foundation for World Population (DSW), more than 8,000 girls and women are affected every day. The procedure is still performed, especially in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Sources: “Hey Amira” / German Foundation World Population
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