{"id":180392,"date":"2022-09-15T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=180392"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:40:03","slug":"born-this-way-makena-njeri-recounts-growing-up-different-says-she-always-knew-she-was-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/born-this-way-makena-njeri-recounts-growing-up-different-says-she-always-knew-she-was-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Born this way! Makena Njeri recounts growing up different, says she always knew she was special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ activist Makena Njeri says she grew up knowing she was different. Maybe unlike other girls, she never felt the need of playing with dolls or having tea parties with her friends nor did she want the girliest dress for christmas\u2026.and this is because she wasn\u2019t born wired like that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/Makena.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/Makena.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/Makena.png 639w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/Makena-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see she is a proud dyke who has dated a few celebrities here and there making her a proper LGBTQ member. Well, fortunately for her &#8211; she realized she was different while growing up and thanks to a tbt photo from when she was like 7 or 8 years\u2026we can clearly see how different she dressed from other girls her age.<\/p>\n<p>From the photo, Makena Njeri is seen wearing a baggy Tshirt which she paired with white baggy jean pants and accessorized her look with a black buckle belt and the shoes\u2026.well she chose Safari\u2019s\u2026a complete look for a small boy.<\/p>\n<p>To caption the post, Makena wrote;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Currently loving my truth and working for my community to make sure other kids have it easy.BOLD????<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png 750w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C-576x1024.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Still wants kids of her own<\/h3>\n<p>Although she already knows she was born different, the lady says one day she hopes to have a family of her own and when time is right, she can opt to partake in the pregnancy experience.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138675\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-26-at-16.55.32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-26-at-16.55.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-26-at-16.55.32.jpg 433w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-26-at-16.55.32-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makena Njeri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know it sounds unrealistic especially with how manly she behaves but again\u2026.it\u2019s a new time and age &#8211; \u00a0where everything is possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-180393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C.png 750w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/F74BD479-A0E4-40DA-B183-41F474A1937C-576x1024.png 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LGBTQ activist Makena Njeri says she grew up knowing she was different. Maybe unlike other girls, she never felt the need of playing with dolls or having tea parties with her friends nor did she want the girliest dress for christmas\u2026.and this is because she wasn\u2019t born wired like that. As you can see she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6017,"featured_media":138674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310],"tags":[101,19,18,130414,137536],"class_list":["post-180392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ghafla-entertainment","tag-ghafla-kenya","tag-ghafla-news","tag-makena-njeri-news","tag-makena-njeri-sexuality-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Born this way! Makena Njeri recounts growing up different, says she always knew she was special - Ghafla! 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