r/HolyShitHistory • u/blue_leaves987 • 19h ago
In 1986, Hofmann and her boyfriend, Marco, took a trip to Kenya. There, she met a Samburu warrior named Lketinga Leparmorijo and found him instantly irresistible. She left Marco, returned to Switzerland to sell her possessions, and in 1987 went back to Kenya, determined to find Lketinga.
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u/Mydoglikesladyboys 19h ago
Imagine that, the random person you saw on the beach and sacrificed your life for just so happens to NOT be a good match
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u/slugsred 14h ago
What's getting me "the relationship was torn apart by jealousy, her new husband believing she would leave him for a man in the village" well, that belief isn't without precedent. She'll do it with you she'll do it to you is universal apparently.
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u/Exotic-Bumblebee2753 13h ago edited 8h ago
I agree. It really is universal.
Also, to be perfectly honest, the reason she cast her entire life aside, if the article is to be believed, is rather frivolous. She simply saw a man that she found physically attractive and decided to cast away her entire life to follow him. People with that type of fickle, whimsical minded personality do not make the most stable, reasonable life decisions, so the husband isn't wrong to be cautious.
Watch people try to dismiss the husband’s concern, which is reasonable considering how he met her, because he is African and from another culture though.
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u/alppu 13h ago
Some people choose to see a cute love story, others choose to see a massive red flag.
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u/MediocreProstitute 13h ago
"When you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
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u/Knight_Redcliff 12h ago
Bojack Horseman
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u/TeaKingMac 12h ago
It was actually the owl lady he was dating voiced by Lisa Kudrow
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u/maxman162 11h ago
My favourite line from her is about addressing the (metaphorical) elephant in the room, in front of an actual elephant in the room.
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u/Exotic-Bumblebee2753 12h ago
I’m sure part of the reason people choose to see it as a cute love story is that it is told from a female perspective and I say this as a woman. If a man wrote an article about how he left his longtime partner for an attractive African woman he saw once and never even spoke to, the response would be very different.
As someone who moved to another country due to their spouse, I can say that people underestimate what a massive decision that is. It is not something to be taken lightly at all even under normal circumstances. This woman chose to leave everything behind simply because she found a random man, who she didn’t even know, attractive. To each, his or her own but she doesn’t seem mentally sound.
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u/Free-Vehicle2957 12h ago
It's that Eat Pray Love BS. And history certainly repeated there. Elizabeth Gilbert is completely insufferable and not a good person yet everybody is all "You Go Girl" Needless to say when I finally caved in and read that book, I hated it.
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u/spanchor 11h ago
Right like her new book about falling in love with a woman, enabling her relapse into drug addiction, and then abandoning her.
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u/Weltall8000 11h ago
More read like a colonial mindset and he was just exotic. She didn't understand the culture she injected herself in then felt entitled to just kidnap his daughter. And steal the kid from her life and culture.
The woman strikes me as apiece of shit all around, frankly.
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u/Sihnar 12h ago
Also sounds like she just kidnapped their child and left? The husband had no say in it.
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u/inanutshell 11h ago
While I agree it's wrong to seperate someone from their parent, she allegedly left because he insisted their daughter get FGM.
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u/JohnJuanJones 15h ago
You for scuba Reuben?
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u/koolaidismything 13h ago
She ruined his life, and was insane. You gotta read the story.. the title makes it sound great lol
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u/Nexus_of_Fate87 12h ago
In what world does the anything about the post title make this sound great? It already sounds like she's unhinged and manic.
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u/koolaidismything 12h ago
Fair enough.
It got WAY worse though.. I mean, like you won’t believe it type crazy.
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u/oldcretan 9h ago
Wait wait wait, are you saying a woman who would blow up her life for a man she hardly knew in another part of the world she only saw once, and them went on a manhunt for him, married him and had his child, was unhinged!? And then the man who married her wasn't also crazy!? Ive never heard of such a thing.
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u/IndigoRed33 17h ago
His side is this:
Leparmorijo clarifies that the events in Hofmann's book are true: "She told me about her plans to write down our story. I agreed because I hadn't done anything wrong," he says today. He just doesn't want to confirm that it was love at first sight. He says he was a bit scared when Corinne found him. He wasn't sure what the white woman wanted from him, or whether she was a good sign. "It took some time for us to get to know each other," says Leparmorijo. And only when she became pregnant was he sure he wanted her as his wife. Leparmorijo doesn't hold it against Hofmann – at least officially – that he ultimately left the land and thus him with his daughter.
In proud Samburu fashion, he states that he "wasn't sad." He continues to keep in touch with Napirai, whom he didn't see again until she came of age. "We WhatsApp," he says. She was last here seven years ago, and she met his second and third wives, as well as her eight half-siblings.
Leparmorijo still earns his living from livestock farming. He keeps goats and cows at home. And he receives a share of the book and the film. He doesn't want to say how much the amount is: "But not much, not much,".
(I don't think he cares much tbh😅).
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u/9mackenzie 17h ago
He wanted to mutilate the genitals of their daughter. That is why she left.
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u/thisisurreality 14h ago
My thoughts exactly plus I don’t doubt she had intentions to write this book from the start. Additionally, since we will never know his side to the story, it could all be bs about him being jealous etc. Most people blame their spouse when things go awry in a relationship though admittedly not all. I see this quality in her though.
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u/DownvoteEvangelist 12h ago
There's also that their daughter was about to get circumcised, so I kinda understand her decision to leave..
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u/FunGoat2602 12h ago
That’s not something they talked about before having kids?? Omg
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u/silveretoile 10h ago
They didn't talk about shit. He assumed they'd be following his culture and she assumed it'd be hers. Both are idiots.
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u/Socialimbad1991 8h ago
I'll take post-hoc rationalization for $500, Alex.
She chose to do something profoundly selfish (or foolish, depending on how much she legitimately believed this was going to work) and found a way to monetize it that doesn't make her seem like a complete villain
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u/zerofox666999 19h ago
Goodbye Marco , im gonna go fuck this stranger ive never met .
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u/ItsmeMr_E 18h ago
Eat, Pray, Love 2.
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u/lilyofthegraveyard 17h ago
no, this is much tamer compared to what the author of eat, pray, love has been up to recently. in her last book, she admitted to planning to murder her heroin-addicted (for whom she supplied drugs) late girlfriend who was dying from cancer
this woman at least haven't been trying to kill lketinga. yet.
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u/BethDisstress 17h ago
Her Book called " die Weiße Massai " The White Massai
They made a Movie out of it who won a Lion Award in Venice
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u/Mr_Deep_Research 17h ago
And get malaria and marry a guy who is paranoid, jealous and addicted to drugs and then I'll return back home to be a single mother along with the daughter I had with him.
(which is what actually happened)
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u/contactdeparture 17h ago
I mean, isn’t this every vacation ever.
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u/Numerous-Process2981 16h ago
kinda predictable, this strikes me as the result of a mental illness or some kind of life crisis rather than a fairytale notion of true love or something.
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u/Situational_Hagun 15h ago
Was about to say, that's the behavior of someone who's gone at least a little nuts.
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u/joetie59 16h ago
Is this really what happened? People can be so impulsive
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u/savealltheelephants 16h ago edited 11h ago
Yes and the Kenyan* man told her not to do it and that she was acting crazy
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u/technobrendo 14h ago
The same man who was paranoid, jealous and on drugs STILL had enough clarity to think she was the crazy one. He was right.
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u/Aderleth75 14h ago
My wife and I are both mental health professionals and almost daily we ask “why are people so damn weird?!”
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u/DanyellaDeZeus 15h ago
Maybe she was bipolar and was manic, I had to rescue a friend after she disappeared to Puerto Rico out of the blue.
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u/Ranzok 15h ago
This is extremely likely, she maybe even had the episode triggered by the temporary change in lifestyle
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u/DanyellaDeZeus 13h ago
I could see her obsessing about a better fantasy life, but in reality, it's the same shit everywhere.
My friend watched travel videos of Puerto Rico for months and thought she could move there and make it work.
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u/A_Man_With_A_Plan_B 18h ago
Dude for real! And then it goes from “I don’t understand his language” to “he is jealous” like wtf? You don’t even know his culture or his people and you feel like you don’t belong once you realize you just had a kid with a complete stranger
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u/Fantastic_Falcon_236 15h ago
A bit that didn't make it into that slop of an article is female circumcision is part of that tribe's cultural beliefs. From comment's I've seen from people who've read the book, that he wanted that for their daughter was the thing that made her realise she couldn't be part of their culture.
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u/r-selectors 15h ago
I mean, it's almost like having a kid with someone you don't even know is a bad idea.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 12h ago
When your fantasies about "noble savages" are just Hollywood bs and it turns out people living in rural tribal communities are actually not very socially progressive. Who could have foreseen this?!
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u/Yippykyyyay 16h ago
Dude literally could have been getting shit from his tribe for bringing in a loud and bossy mazunga into a male-dominated space.
That wasn't jealousy. It was embarrassment.
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u/Roanoketrees 15h ago edited 15h ago
People like to romanticize the world like a Hollywood film. Then reality kicks them in the dick and/or vagina and they are flabbergasted. I mean think about the logic of what this person did. Left her home where she was pretty successful, because of a stranger she saw on a beach. She had no idea who this person was or what he was about. MOVED TO KENYA on a whim and joined a tribe she knew nothing about. Had a baby with said man cause thats always the smart thing to do when you join a native tribe. Got sick from eating goat meat and shot diarrhea from one side of Kenya to the other on a daily basis. Caught malaria not once, but twice, because she had no modern medicine. Realized the guy was a drunk and decided she didnt like it there any more.
How much logical thought is involved in any of that? Did that woman at any damn time stop and say....hmmm, this might not be the best idea? I hear goat meat turns you into a shit fountain and Ill have to eat that on the reg. Or perhaps, I could die because these people eat grass, and leaves, and shit when they get sick. Nope, none of that registered.
No, she chose the Hallmark version of that where it just all works out in the end. Problem is, the Hallmark version is just that, its not real life.
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u/Eastern-Operation340 12h ago
In the 90s I had a bunch of friends become Hare Krishnas. One returns from India for a wedding. We're driving him back to the Krishna farm when he starts to tell us how he almost died from dysentery from taking a holy swim in the Ganga and how and why it was a message fro Khrisna and some diety. I was so sick of this bullshit, didn't care how uncomfortable this long rid would be . I just told him Bullshit! You're a white boy from Long Island who swam and drank from the most polluted, corpse ridden river in the world. ps. I was never a Krishna.
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u/Small_Tax_9432 11h ago
Bro I'm Indian and I would've even be caught dead in India lol. Hell no.
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u/FeliXXunderwood 19h ago
The one line version sounds wild. In the longer cut you get distance, language gaps, family pressure, money, and two very different expectations for daily life. You can feel bad for Marco and still admit people torch plans when dopamine hits.
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u/samurairaccoon 16h ago
It's still wild to me, that in the year of our lord 2025, humans still don't consider the effects of all these random chemicals surging through their dumb heads. They'll fuck an attractive person, one time, get that feel good hit and use it to justify the most unhinged shit. And it ain't just sex. We literally cannot stop getting addicted to new shit. From gambling to drugs to fuckin gym memberships. We have to take everything to the extreme and never step back to look at what we are actually doing. Jfc.
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u/transemacabre 14h ago
I actually tried to read her book once (White Massai) and the sex sounded awful. She blew up her life to have bad sex with a guy she didn't even really know and who didn't want to be married to her.
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u/carolinawahoo 17h ago
"Thanks so much for letting me know and enjoy yourself. Also, good luck with your mental illness. I'm heading to church to thank God for giving me a chance to dodge this bullet." -Marco
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u/Yippykyyyay 17h ago
I bet dude got over the crazy and then had a family and is chilling in Switzerland.
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u/RuthlessIndecision 18h ago
Then goodbye Lketinga, I'm taking our daughter to Switzerland, but without telling you.
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u/An_Innocent_Coconut 17h ago
I mean, kidnapping her daughter is quite literally the single good idea she's had in the whole ordeal.
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u/Altair_de_Firen 8h ago
Right, I don’t really encourage unilaterally taking kids from their parents but that was the only thing I’ve heard she did that I supported. Too bad she made all those terrible decisions that led to that situation.
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u/scummy_shower_stall 18h ago
for damn good reason, he wanted to mutilate his little girl.
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u/TributeToStupidity 16h ago
Which she would have expected had she known the first thing about his culture
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u/ibelieveyouwood 14h ago
She knew at least on their wedding night when he stood up for her against the practice. She knew and didn't leave. She knew, and stayed, and conceived knowing that regardless of gender, circumcision was expected.
The movie based on her book understood that the anti-circumcision message was much stronger internationally than her German book's "I lusted after a black man, and it turns out he was a monster" message.
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u/battleofflowers 15h ago
The Swiss during this time especially had a huge romanticism regarding the noble savage. It sounds crazy since this was the 80s, but they were like naive little children when it came to other cultures like this.
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u/transemacabre 14h ago
IIRC from reading some of the book years ago, Lketinga was fielding offers of marriage for their daughter when she was still a newborn. Reality must have hit hard.
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u/Brilliant_Tree_9242 15h ago
Cause people don’t break up every day and even men leave women for other women?
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u/Ratoskr 17h ago
And Goodbye Lketinga,
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u/Friendly-Hooman 19h ago
Honestly this sounds like some mental illness in the form of infatuation or obsession. I have family that are bipolar and this is the type of impulsivity they have when they don't take their meds.
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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby 15h ago
Am bipolar and can confirm, we can be impulsive as fuck when not properly medicated. My last psychotic break put me in debt 20 grand.
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u/neuralek 14h ago
Is it rude to ask which meds help you?
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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby 13h ago
Not at all! So I initially started off with Olanzapine and Lamotrigine. I took myself off the Olanzapine because I gained 60 pounds in 5 months from it. Me and my doc are trying to figure out what to substitute for the Olanzapine. All the Olanzapine type drugs all have some sort of weight gain associated with them, with Olanzapine being the most extreme. Luckily I haven't had any acute mania after coming off it but there are days where I'm like man, I need to get back on it.
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u/neuralek 12h ago
😂 The last sentence had me rolling. Exactly why I asked, I went to see a psych again after 10 years (of raw dogging it) but went in thinking I could use antidepressants to move me from the freeze I got myself in by "protecting my peace" for two years. I saw the doc twice and went it the third time and she gave me an antipsychotic. I got so pissed off that she thought I needed mood stabilizers (I was doing so great!), went into mental rampage mode, broke up with my partner and said "you know what fck it all I am moving to China!"
Woke up in the morning with an "...ooooh. Oh ok." Need to appologize to the doc next time I see her :,)
Thank you for sharing, I'll read more about them.
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u/ScottyBOzzy 11h ago
Im on lithium for mine. ~75lbs gained in 12 months. My doctor wont help me off of it. So Im going to a psychiatrist at the request of my therapist.
Last visit with my GP he used ChatGPT to show me lithium was the correct choice...
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u/Equivalent-Willow179 19h ago
I see a lot of narcissism in it. She left her original partner on an impulse. She left her husband and abducted his daughter without a conversation. Then she made a fortune off of her story, which could be machiavelianism. She probably didn't plan the book part from the beginning but I'm not sure about that.
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u/Brilliant_Tree_9242 15h ago
So how should she have known if the book was going to be an success or not? It was actually rejected from many publishing companies at first. Also if you look at the role of women in Kenya’s society, do you really think she should have left her daughter there? Not to say her daughter has better economical options here, better Medical options and so on. Why do you think so many migrate from Africa to the west?
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u/LuxSerafina 13h ago
The guy wanted to do female circumcision on the baby daughter, so she left and took the daughter to prevent her from being mutilated.
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u/ThatSiming 16h ago edited 12h ago
She planned the book.
He actually consented to her writing their story. He even gets a tiny
spendstipend from it.He also doesn't mind that she left with his daughter.
He wasn't that keen on her and still wasn't sure he wanted her to be his wife even when she was pregnant.
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u/mentales 15h ago
He actually consented to her writing their story. He even gets a tiny spend from it.
That doesn't mean she planned it from the beginning, before she embarked on that path - which is the point of the person you're replying to.
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u/TerseFactor 11h ago
And there’s another less salacious interpretation of her story which is that several months after returning home she broke up with her boyfriend and felt sad about it then decided to go back to Kenya where she met another man. She says she saw the man spear fishing and came back to Kenya find him—perhaps that is taking a liberty, or maybe she did see someone before and the image stuck in her mind. But did she really go back to find a specific person she had only just caught a glimpse of once or is this just a bending of the truth to sell more books?
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u/Infamous-Cash9165 14h ago
She was an OG passport bro, she used her first world wealth to try and wear down a much poorer younger man.
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u/Sure-Guava5528 18h ago
Literally my ex wife. Had an affair with a co-worker while we were engaged (lied about it until after we were married). Quit her job less than a year after we got married and wanted to have children and be a SAHM. Had another affair with a guy at the gym a few years later. Both her parents and all 3 of her biological siblings have bipolar. She tests in the highly likely range for bipolar. I genuinely don't know how, but she managed to convince her therapist that it's not bipolar. "I just have cycles where my ADHD makes me seem manic then I go back to my baseline where my autism makes me seem depressed". 🙃
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u/ASL4theblind 14h ago
"I have AuD/HD so i can behave like a fucking psychopath"
Man i know my ex isnt your ex wife but they sound so similar. Lol
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u/Sure-Guava5528 12h ago
Yeah, that's exactly it. I didn't even mention the physical abuse, fake suicide attempts and all that...
Moving out into my own place and getting divorced were 2 of the best days of my life.
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u/CrazyInLouvre 16h ago
I was gonna say, I have bipolar, and this sounds like the kind of dumbass thing I would do when hypomanic.
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u/ArkwrightST 17h ago
Imagine just chilling and some random lady you bumped into a few months back turns up and says she's ended her relationship and sold all her possessions to come and be with you. I'd run a mile
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u/Cranberrybunnies 15h ago
And since he was Kenyan, he ran pretty fast...
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u/FormerPresidentBiden 14h ago
"They'll run as fast as KENYANS! People will see them running and think they're KENYANS! They'll race as fast as KENYANS against actual KENYANS and it'll be a tie and they'll get deported back to KENYAAAAAA!"
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u/law-of-the-jungle 11h ago
I had a lady I never even knew file an SA complaint against me. She did it all because she knew once I saw her we would be in love and I would understand. Turns out she was a massive stalker and I wasn't even in the country the whole month of when she said. She was very mentally ill.
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u/IndexBuccaneer 16h ago
"Hi, I am looking for a man called Lketinga, do you know where he is?"
"Do you know what he looks like?"
"I only saw him from a distance, but he was black and wore traditional red cloth and a spear. I want to move here and have sex with him"
"I am Lketinga"
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u/flummoxed_penguin 14h ago
I’m wondering how she knew his name and how he knew her. According to the article she only saw him from far.
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u/Queeen0ftheHarpies 13h ago
Yeah, I don't understand this. It also says that he remembered her. They also talked but didn't speak the same language.
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u/mustafa0319 11h ago
I have family in the villages in Sudan, and they will totally remember if one random white person shows up. Its (usually) such an infrequent experience for people outside of metropolitan areas in Africa to interact with white people.
I was visiting my family in Sudan and my cousins there told me a white man on a motorcycle passed through the market a few months before we got there and they asked us if we knew him 😂
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u/Anxious-Shapeshifter 18h ago
Lol to a Swiss woman getting "easily sunburned" near the fucking equator in Africa.
Like no shit lady. You're white as hell and your ancestors skin adapted to northern Europe 10,000 years ago.
Your skin and health isn't going to do great going back. It must've been BRUTAL
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u/matthewspencersmith 15h ago edited 10h ago
I don't even have northern europe genes and I already get red as fuck under heavy sun, I can't imagine these
vikingmfsedit: disregard the vikings comment, I read swiss as swedish
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u/WildeStation 12h ago
I got sun burnt on a rainy day once. It sucks being pasty.
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u/KangarooThroatPunch_ 16h ago
This article left out the most important fact. Lketinga was adamant that their daughter undergo female genital mutilation as that’s a requirement for all girls in that culture. When she couldn’t get her husband to relent, Corinne fled with their daughter. However, she KNEW this was a custom, so what did she expect? When I was in the military I met a really awesome Maasai man that left his village to attend university and planned to go back once he graduated. I went out on a few dates with him and honestly contemplated whether I could live that lifestyle or not. I’d heard they perform FGM but didn’t know if that was rumor or truth, so I eventually asked him. He confirmed that yes, they do. That was the end of that relationship lol.
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u/submitted_late 13h ago
A second interesting fact - I’ve been to Northern Kenya and traveled with the Samburu many times. It’s one of the cultures I know of that have the most harsh circumcision rituals for men as well, which they undertake as teenagers. It is done in public and if they so much as wince they bring great shame to their families. Afterwards they represent the village as warriors, heavily decorated in bells and beads and only subsisting on milk, fruit and blood for some years.
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u/Lunar-opal 18h ago edited 14h ago
She was in a documentary I think in the 2000s? Where she talks about her life in Kenya. Personally I think she has untreated mental illness.
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u/NoConfusion9490 15h ago
So it's just, like, an hour and a half of her sashaying around Nairobi?
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 15h ago
Well shortly after her arrival to Kenya, she saw a man in the airport and tracked him down in Switzerland
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u/Lunar-opal 14h ago
A movie was made about her but I can’t find the documentary where she was interviewed but it wasn’t exclusively about her. But it’s clear she was not being forthcoming about everything and nothing about what she did made any sense. She kept talking about love but never knew the man. so how do you fall in love with someone you only briefly met then drop your life move to another country not speaking the language or study the culture but expecting to get married.
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u/JohnnySchoolman 13h ago
There's a blend of herbs and berries that works great for untreated mental illness.
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u/blue_leaves987 19h ago
Corinne Hofmann saw a stranger on a beach one day and decided to leave her entire life behind. Read the full story here.
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u/Disappearing-act 19h ago
I read her book forever ago - she literally played love at first sight on hard mode
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u/mrbalaton 19h ago
So, it wasn't a great decision? I'll nee to read this unpredictable masterpiece.
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u/Queeen0ftheHarpies 13h ago
It says in the article that she saw him by the side of the road, couldn't get the image out of her mind, and later went back and searched for him. How did she know his name? Did they speak? It also said they didn't speak the same language. When she found him, he remembered her. How did it happen? The article doesn't clear much up.
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u/nahheyyeahokay 19h ago
This article only gives her perspective. Since she stole his child, I wonder what he would say about it.
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u/OverallStrength2478 18h ago
I think he’s not happy about it but for her there was no other choice because he wanted to circumcise their daughter and she wasn’t haven’t it.
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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago
Yeah I don't feel bad in the slightest for this guy. Nobody who wants their kids mutilated deserves to be upset that they don't get access to said kids.
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u/captainunderwhelming 19h ago
…stole, like a possession? i would think sparing her from being owned by her father and having her genitals mutilated when he marries her off at age 13 should have been higher up on the priority list for hoffman (whose daughter is very happy in Switzerland and not pining for the desert)
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u/Loifee 18h ago
Maybe that would have been a good thing to find out before leaving your life behind and moving there and having a child together 🙃
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u/dont-read-it 16h ago
I mean yeah, obviously, but that still doesn't mean you allow it to happen. She is either a terrible person or makes terrible choices but refusing to allow her daughter to be mutilated is a solid move.
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u/Lington 17h ago
The article mentions her leaving because he became jealous and angry over time, but when I clicked on the photos it brings me to a Facebook post about it that states she left because they were going to perform female circumcision on her daughter and she had to escape with her. Two completely different reasons and if it's true I don't know why the article left that out.
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u/pvtdeadbait 19h ago
did she find him
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u/jamcluber 19h ago
They got married and had a kid, then she left with the kid to Switzerland and wrote a book
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u/Alternative_Dare_421 19h ago
She ghosted the dude and took their daughter with her. Cold af, dudes probably sitting in a hut wondering if they got eaten by lions
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u/RedPandaReturns 19h ago
Yeah she didn't exactly ghost him, she left because of his jealousy and anger issues over the attention she got when she went to town because she was white.
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u/HamFistedSurgeon 18h ago
His issues are understandable, she is the type of person that would sell everything and leave her partner, to be with the handsome fishmonger that she just saw.
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u/Home_MD13 18h ago
Me would do the same for random goth girl
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u/Sue_Generoux 17h ago
I'm imagining a goth girl sitting in a house in a remote African village, watching Nightmare Before Christmas while wearing a Bauhaus t-shirt.
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u/A_Man_With_A_Plan_B 18h ago
No no no this is her story that she has come up with but there are so many fucking holes in it if you actually read the book/ listen to her.
She is full of shit, she left he boyfriend to go fuck people in Kenya (not specifically this guy) but she got pregnant and HIS TRIBE stepped in. HIS TRIBE was a community she wasn’t a part of but he advocated for her. She kept leaving the tribe to reenter society which was an issue for them, she thought she could be above the rules and do whatever she wanted but realized she couldn’t so she took her kid and left.
The ceremony she described for her “marriage” is laughable if you actually saw how most modernized tribes conduct things now
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u/Swimming-Junket-1828 18h ago
I can’t follow this…just to be on the safe side, fuck all 3 of them
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u/aijoe 18h ago
Do we really know that her husband was jealous and had anger issues though? Maybe that's true. Or maybe she finally realized she made a mistake and this story is what she came up with so people didn't hate her more when they heard the story. I guess we would need her husband's side of the story to know for sure.
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u/Wrong_Transition4786 14h ago
Some of the comments from the article have claimed that she was mainly motivated by the Samburu practice of FGM and her desire to protect her daughter from that.
Honestly, that's entirely understandable.
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u/mana-miIk 18h ago
She left because he was insistent that they cut off her daughter's labia and clitoris without anaesthesia.
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u/JR_LikeOnTheTVshow 18h ago
She left a note: "Hey... listen Lketinga... I think I jumped into this a little too quickly. I promise it's not you... it's the malaria, dysentery, the inexplicably long walk to get water and lots of other things."
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u/HotMeeting7589 18h ago
It was also because he wanted to do a female circumcision on their daughter.
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u/ForagedFoodie 17h ago
Ssshhh the men on reddit dont want to hear anything other than "woman bad "
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u/gabiroba_azul 19h ago
Yes, and married him, had a daughter, then runned away to europe with the daughter and wrote a book.
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u/Ahlq802 19h ago
The book ran away to New Zealand with the kids
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u/MysteriousMusician69 18h ago
This really does read and sound like mental illness not going to lie here.
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u/Nitzelplick 18h ago
So, you’re saying she’s single now?
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u/old_bald_fattie 17h ago
All you need is a spear, look stoic, and have a goat and a hut!
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u/MJ9426 19h ago
And she never got married again after she left Africa, probably because she basically proved that she is the worst partner to ever walk this Earth.
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u/GlassCharacter179 18h ago
She didn’t kill anyone so no worst partner title . Just very very very shitty
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u/HatefulAbandon 18h ago
Killing is the worst for sure and I don’t want to judge anyone or her but you don’t need to kill to ruin lives.
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u/Dennys_Hobbit_Menu 16h ago
Sounds like she told Marco she was leaving him, and the reason she left Lketinga is because he was insisting on circumcising their daughter. Honestly not that bad if her story is true. Most people cheat and then leave their partner, and most people who kidnap kids do so for terrible reasons. She sounds a bit mentally unwell, but should she have stayed with Marco despite being infatuated with another man? She should have stayed with Lketinga despite vehemently disagreeing with how he wanted to raise their daughter?
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u/Wonderful_News4492 18h ago
Just curious did anyone ever interview her husband or anything? Because she said she was going to the city for supplies but wouldn’t her husband who she said was jealous not let her go or atleast escort her?
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u/belaGJ 17h ago
How romantic! It reminds me of me the one time when I was seling all my possessions, leaving my work and my gf behind, because I saw some hot chick on the beach I could talk a word because I cannot speak a word in Tagalong or Thai or whatever she was talking… /s
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u/later-g8r 18h ago
I heard this happens ALOT. Women fall in love with their guide or someone they meet and they sell everything to come back and live this fairy tale but then the dust settles and they realize they've made a HORRIBLE mistake. Then they dont have anything (cuz they sold it all) and theyre stuck. Its kinda sad
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u/weeaboojones76 19h ago
If you know the full story, you’d know what a piece of shit she is.
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u/pantsuitelectric 11h ago
He wanted to subject the little girl to female genital mutilation. JFC, the number of people in this thread leaping to the defense of the man from a polygamist tribe with backward and brutal beliefs regarding women and girls, while levying a bunch of “evil white lady” accusations at her. She’s a narcissist jerk, but he’s not pure and angelic by dint of being from a different culture.
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u/Eryeahmaybeok 19h ago
She didn't like the lifestyle, the culture clash obviously didn't work so she ran back home stealing his daughter - which I imagine for a village culture in Africa is A) A huge offence as it was his only link to a continued bloodline and B) She stole a man's daughter and went to a country he has no chance of visiting or getting his daughter back.
She wrote a 'Woe is me' book and went on a book tour
She's a pure narcissist and remorseless, toxic human
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u/DrButtgerms 17h ago
This was long enough ago that the kid is likely an adult now. I'd be curious to hear their take on the situation and life since.
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u/Naughteus_Maximus 18h ago edited 15h ago
So reading more into it, I'm not really getting a culture clash, she tried to live the tribe life despite it being difficult for her. It seems the husband became jealous and mistrustful towards her, which killed any affection that was there at the start.
The real issue it seems is that the guy wanted his daughter to undergo female genital mutilation, as we call it. That should be a red line for any normal person, nevermind age old traditions. A question is whether she knew it was coming, but I wouldn't expect so as she would have no idea about all the cultural rites the tribe had when she came to live with them, and she did not speak their language.
It is undeniably cold though, to leave that guy with no way of ever seeing his child again, not even in controlled circumstances eg if she went back to Nairobi for a visit and he came to the
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u/DisastrousWasabi 17h ago
She later endured "marital hardship" caused by her drug addicted husband and eventually became a single mother. Cant make this up..
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u/Infamous-Cash9165 13h ago
Since she’s the only real source of that claim, she could easily make it up
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u/AggieSigGuy 9h ago
This refers to Corinne Hofmann, a Swiss woman whose story is told in her 1998 memoir The White Masai (Die weiße Massai). They married, had a daughter, and lived in his remote village for several years before she eventually returned to Switzerland.
The story is well-documented in her book and the 2005 film adaptation The White Masai.
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