{"id":1486,"date":"2016-10-11T08:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:54:13","slug":"palesa-madisakwane-speaks-raising-somizi-mhlongos-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/palesa-madisakwane-speaks-raising-somizi-mhlongos-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Palesa Madisakwane Speaks About Raising Somizi Mhlongo\u2019s Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1487 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Palesa-Madisakwane-somizi-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Palesa Madisakwane and Somizi Mhlongo's daughter Bahumi Madisakwane\" width=\"480\" height=\"280\" \/>SA Television personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/palesa-madisakwane\/\">Palesa Madisakwane<\/a> has revealed how hard it\u2019s been co-parenting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/somizi-mhlongo\/\">Somizi Mhlongo<\/a>, with the bad publicity and all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two public figures have tried their best to give their daughter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/bahumi-madisakwane\/\">Bahumi Madisakwane<\/a>, a normal life. However, they are often subjected to a lot of negative publicity which is almost impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an interview with a tabloid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/palesa-madisakwane\/\">Palesa<\/a> revealed that when she became pregnant with their daughter who is now grown up, they never had any plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apparently, there was no promise of a happily ever after as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/somizi-mhlongo\/\">Somizi<\/a> did not hide the fact that he is gay. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/palesa-madisakwane\/\">Palesa Madisakwane<\/a> revealed; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/somizi-mhlongo\/\">Somizi<\/a> and I were young when we fell pregnant and had our daughter. We were in each other\u2019s lives but had no plans for the future.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"a17b8461aa8852e9804489a09abe77ee\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Ad -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1510235538\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/dj-tira-officially-marry-gugu-mbambama\/\">DJ Tira To Officially Marry Gugu Mbambama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNow that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/bahumi-madisakwane\/\">Bahumi<\/a> is an adult and most people know who her parents are, we never once thought of hiding it from the media. People will always talk and sometimes be convinced that they know you, but they actually don\u2019t.\u201d Besides, with the presence of the popular SomGaga as the father figure, raising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/bahumi-madisakwane\/\">Bahumi<\/a> was not an easy task. However, the parents seemed to have realized early enough that tongues must wag. Thus, they have tried hard to give her normal life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen it comes to raising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/bahumi-madisakwane\/\">Bahumi<\/a>, we try our best to give her a normal life, even though it\u2019s hard to avoid bad publicity.\u201d During a recent interview on 947\u201a TV\/radio personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/somizi-mhlongo\/\">Somizi<\/a> shut down any speculations that he had ever lived in the \u201ccloset\u201d. Apparently, he was referring to the period when he fathered his daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ve never been in the closet. I\u2019ve never said that I\u2019m straight. When you come out\u201a is when you\u2019ve been claiming to be straight. Have I ever?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/somizi-mhlongo\/\">Somizi<\/a> asked. He emphasized that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/tag\/palesa-madisakwane\/\">Palesa<\/a> knew about his sexuality before they became parents.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA Television personality Palesa Madisakwane has revealed how hard it\u2019s been co-parenting with Somizi Mhlongo, with the bad publicity and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}