There is a girl whose childhood was vastly different from the norm. Unlike many children who looked like her, this child’s life was the opposite of what they are used to. Tippi Degre, who has been dubbed ‘the real-life Mowgli’ was raised with the kind of animals we remember reading about as children in the Jungle Book. She herself has since authored her own autobiography and appeared in documentaries about her childhood. Her childhood adventure has captured the imagination of many.
Just A Girl In The Wild
Just A Girl In The Wild
In June 1990, Namibians Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre became proud parents to a little girl they named Tippi. Sylvie chose her daughter’s name to honor the actress Tippi Hedren, whose best-known role was in the Hitchcock film ‘The Birds’. Tippi’s parents knew that their child would not have a traditional upbringing, but would instead, be raised with the wild animals they lived within Namibia. For the next decade, Tippi’s best friends were leopards and elephants.
Parental Choices
Tippi’s mother, Sylvie, never considered her decision to bring up her daughter in the wild, as anything unusual. In fact, she knew that this kind of life would benefit Tippi’s growth and offer her the freedom of nature not many children have. Sylvie, Robert, and Tippi lived an enchanted life in the wild for the first decade of Tippi’s life together with wild animals and not very many humans. This was a parent’s decision that would shape the rest of her life.
Parental Choices
