Mum was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle now Im leaving Bradford to follow in her footsteps
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A woman whose mother was raised in the jungle by monkeys has followed in her footsteps by leaving Bradford for the rainforests of South America.
Marina Chapman claimed she grew up in the company of white-faced capuchins in the wilds of Colombia after being kidnapped and abandoned by people traffickers when she was just four years old.
In her adulthood she eventually made it to England, where she married a civil servant and had children in West Yorkshire, although her quirky nature belied her remarkable childhood.
With tales of people traffickers, poachers and her mother almost being forced into prostitution before her arrival in Britain, one would forgive her children for never wanting to set foot in the jungle.
But for Vanessa Forero, her eldest daughter, the tales of Marina's time in the wild were too tantalising to ignore - and she has now set up home in the same rainforests.
In a remote lodge in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, she tells Ben Fogle she feels like she's where she belongs - adding: 'I always decorated my room at home with images of nature and mountains.'On his Channel 5 show Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, which airs tonight, Vanessa reveals her mother was unhappy at her 40-year-old daughter leaving the UK for the jungle, the Mirror reports.
But the decision, which came after the end of her own 15-year marriage, was written in the stars, she said.
Vanessa said: 'Mum doesn't like that I'm here – and so far away from her. But at the same time, she can see why I am here.
'This is the first time I've felt a feeling of home and belonging. And the monkeys do come around. They howl a lot in the trees. They are really loud. I've also got a big cat somewhere.
'Joanna [her sister] came out more like Dad. She works as a civil servant, married with three kids living in Leeds. I was like Mum – born with jungle feet and twigs in my hair.'
Marina Chapman claimed she grew up in the company of white-faced capuchins in the wilds of Colombia after being kidnapped and abandoned by people traffickers when she was just four years old.
In her adulthood she eventually made it to England, where she married a civil servant and had children in West Yorkshire, although her quirky nature belied her remarkable childhood.
With tales of people traffickers, poachers and her mother almost being forced into prostitution before her arrival in Britain, one would forgive her children for never wanting to set foot in the jungle.
But for Vanessa Forero, her eldest daughter, the tales of Marina's time in the wild were too tantalising to ignore - and she has now set up home in the same rainforests.
In a remote lodge in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, she tells Ben Fogle she feels like she's where she belongs - adding: 'I always decorated my room at home with images of nature and mountains.'On his Channel 5 show Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild, which airs tonight, Vanessa reveals her mother was unhappy at her 40-year-old daughter leaving the UK for the jungle, the Mirror reports.
But the decision, which came after the end of her own 15-year marriage, was written in the stars, she said.
Vanessa said: 'Mum doesn't like that I'm here – and so far away from her. But at the same time, she can see why I am here.
'This is the first time I've felt a feeling of home and belonging. And the monkeys do come around. They howl a lot in the trees. They are really loud. I've also got a big cat somewhere.
'Joanna [her sister] came out more like Dad. She works as a civil servant, married with three kids living in Leeds. I was like Mum – born with jungle feet and twigs in my hair.'
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