A lady by the name Shirleen Mukami in November touched many hearts after she shared her struggles having given birth a few months ago.
In a lengthy Tweeter thread, Shirleen Mukami claimed that she was facing hardships since the motherhood was faced with a lot of difficulties.
According to her, there was nothing to celebrate and that she had been living a life of hell from her pregnancy journey.
“Hello, Twitter. I’m Shirleen Mukami, a 20-year old single mother of one boy whom I was blessed with on June 15th 2021. He’ll be turning 5 months in the next few days. But what’s there to celebrate!? It’s been a ride of hell and unbearable heartbreaks and pain,” part of the thread read.
“My entire pregnancy was a journey of unforgettable pain, sorrow and regrets. I had thought otherwise about keeping this baby but eventually, I decided to keep it and raise him. I shared the news of my pregnancy to the man I was in love with. The man I knew was responsible.
“I had already anticipated his reaction and had told my girls that he would deny responsibility. And he did. I was not surprised. But what hurt me most is that I didn’t even tell him about it to try and ‘trap’ him into raising the baby with me. I had decided I would still keep it.
“After endless days of trying to reason with him, I gave up and decided to focus on me and the human being growing in me. It hurt that he would deny s’thing so obvious. And then when he now decided that we terminate it, I felt even stupider. Still, I soldiered on with my pregnancy.
“Suddenly, my whole world collapsed around me. I dropped out of college, strained my relationship with my parents, lost friends, lost my social life, lost the man I loved, lost it all. I wasn’t prepared 4 the emotional strain a pregnancy can impact on a woman. My life went black.
“The months that followed were pure hell. I never felt so alone. I regretted everything. Regretted meeting that man. Regretted loving him. Regretted the baby I was carrying. I was so mad at so many things. I didn’t feel proud of myself. And didn’t look forward to meeting my baby.
“In the past, I had seen pregnant women ‘glowing’. I had seen society celebrating pregnant women. But my case was different. No one seemed to care about me. I didn’t feel the love. I didn’t glow. I didn’t see the world applaud me. I felt a numbness that no woman deserves to feel.
“The months went by and my mental health got worse. Alot ran through my mind. ALOT. No amount of tears could heal the brokenness I was undergoing. I dreamed of a baby shower. I even hoped for a baby bump photoshoot. I got none of that. It drained me. It ate up my soul and tore me.
“I didn’t even bother with the normal clinic trips. I skipped them all. I honestly didn’t care anyway. Somehow, I managed to figure out my due date. And looked forward to it with both fear and anxiety. Tired, angry and torn, I gave birth to a boy after 12 intense hours of labor.
“And now, the actual stress kicked even harder. I thought I was going crazy. I looked terrible and felt even worse. I didn’t feel pretty anymore. I felt used and dumped. Alot crossed my mind.I would breastfeed while crying. This was just terrible. A mother shouldn’t feel this badI thought of all the young moms like me. In their early twenties. With no jobs, absent baby daddies, unsupportive families, little friends and no cash. I couldn’t imagine how many we are. And wished our salaried ‘men’ knew what it meant to run away from their young pregnant lover.
“I’ve painstakingly raised this boy alone. With zero cash and endless prayers. He’s only five months and I’m losing my mind. I can’t imagine how tough the following months and years can be. My idleness disturbed my mind and I needed to occupy myself. And then I called up a friend.
“Kenyans, kindly support our little ‘Baby Shower Sisters’ initiative. We’ve been doing little and can’t mind doing much. Going out more. Meeting more mothers and healing our minds. I don’t even have much myself. But it’s by giving that I have been receiving a diaper or two myself,” she wrote in a tweet.
The story quickly went viral and Shirleen took over Twitter trends for a couple of days and even had local media houses cover her touching story
Shirleen Mukami received over 800,000 Kenya shillings as contributions from Kenyans of goodwill to support her initiative which was deemed considerate and kind.
However, it has now emerged that Shirleen Mukami was the biggest fraud of the century following an expose by Blogger Edgar Obare .
According to tea-master Edgar Obare, the whole Shirleen Mukami story was staged by a serial fraudster Kenneth Gachie Kabuga alias Cabu Gah
Edgar Obare even uploaded a number of screenshots from Cabu Gah’s conversation with his friend.
The friend argued that Cabu Gah who is Shirleen Mukami’s baby daddy was the mastermind behind the whole story with the motive of buying a new whip after his car was written off following an accident.
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