What does the jungle girl who grew up with tigers and elephants look like today?
Tippi was nicknamed "the real Mowgli" - this is the amazing story of the little girl who spent her first 10 years in the African steppes with elephants, tigers and lions
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11/10/2022
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 00:10
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Le Monde According to Tippi
Tippi Degra had a very unusual childhood (to say the least) and this can be seen as she sits next to an adult tiger and looks completely relaxed.
Tippi is the daughter of French photographers Sylvie Robert and Alain Degra, and she spent the first ten years of her life traveling around Africa, with her parents documenting her experiences.
She was nicknamed the real Mowgli, and now after 10 years, an updated copy of her picture book, Tippi: My Book of Africa, is being released again, giving a glimpse into the extraordinary first decade of her life.
According to the mother, Sylvia, "It was magical to live in the wild with this girl, who was very lucky: it was just the three of us there in the savannah with the animals and very few people. The animals around her were really her friends and she used a lot of imagination to live in these conditions and communicate with them." .
This is how she looked then
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And here she is today
Tippi the Jungle Girl - Today (Photo: Screenshot, Tippi: My Book of Africa.)
When she was ten, her parents returned to France and enrolled Tippi in a state public school.
According to them, she did not integrate well into Western life as they expected and at a certain point, after feeling that she did not have much in common with the other children, her parents decided to transfer her to a home schooling format.
Despite this, she attended university and completed a degree in cinema.
Today she is 26 years old and runs the children's film festival for the environment in Paris - and constantly visits Namibia.
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