On Thursday, Atim, who is married to Chameleone, took to Instagram to let her followers know that her husband's parents told her they wanted a son as the firstborn.
Humphrey Mayanja, the brother of singer Jose Chameleone, is not happy with Daniella Atim's continued washing of their family's dirty linen in public.
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Luckily enough, Atim had a boy first, but then she had two more boys before having a girl, and the family now switched goalposts and started demanding a daughter.
Atim said the characters of her parents-in-law pushed her to stop her children from visiting them because she believed they were going to poison their minds. She only allowed them if she was going to accompany them.
Mayanja wasn't happy with Atim revealing this to the public. He took to Facebook to say: "Just asking, does a person who grew up in an orphanage have a right to talk about another person's mother?" [Daniella Atim was raised by the late father John Scalabrini who was her foster father.]
This is not the first time Humphrey Mayanja is attacking Daniella Atim. In August when she was telling the public about Weasel's bad habits following domestic violence accusations, Mayanja posted a video to remind people that she was also once arrested for assaulting someone.
In 2012, then 28, Atim slapped Isaac Daniel Katende, aka Kasuku, who was then a journalist with Daily Monitor and a presenter at Dembe FM.
Below is Atim's full post:
“I remember all the tingles I felt when I fell in love, I couldn’t wait to have kids with the person I loved. I had met his family and most of his friends, his parents told me they wanted a ‘boy child’ as a first child (even though this sounded very impolite to my ears ). I was in love and I embarked on a journey to seek out and cry to God to give me a son as my first child, I fasted for a son, I offered tithe for a son and I even went as far as making a pact with God, I told him ‘God if you give me a son for my first child, I will ensure that he serves you.’
Of course, I had a son, God gave me the son I wanted and we gave him just the perfect name Abba.
I was smart enough to know that it didn’t matter what gender my child was but here I had fallen in love with a man from a very traditional family, to them a boy child sealed a man’s status in society, and now it was my duty to do that. And then I had a second son and even a third son and this time they moved goal posts, they wanted a girl but trust me by this time I had started to outgrow the standards they had set for me as their son’s wife, I was done walking on eggshells and I wanted the courageous girl Fr John raised to come out of her shell, I wanted to be the brave, principled girl every one referred to me as .it was time to start living the values Fr John had instilled in us. HUMBLE and FIERCE.
I immediately stopped my kids from visiting their paternal grandparents if I was not in their company, I did not want my kids getting certain ideas in their heads. I became the VILLAIN who was the topic of discussion in family WhatsApp groups but secretly I was thumping my chest in victory, I had won this battle and I could raise my kids as they kept pointing fingers.
Alba was born, she was instant sunshine, and my in-laws were excited but by this time they already knew not to make tasteless comments around me, the warrior in me had woken up and has never gone to sleep since then.
Anyway, National Daughter’s Day was a few days ago but in our home, it is children’s day every day, we celebrate the biggest gift God has given humanity… LIFE.”
Chameleone and Daniella got married in 2008 and they have five children.