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Tippi Degré's personal data

Tippy, an African girl, lived with all kinds of wild animals in Africa in the first ten years of her life and became a veritable "little savage".

Name source

According to Tippy's account, the origin of his name is as follows. Because there is an American actress whose name is Tippy Hederen. She starred in a horror movie called Birds, which was directed by an American named Hitchcock. She thinks her parents chose this name very well. First of all, it is a unique name. Coincidentally, she also thinks that she is different from other girls. Besides, the name will remind people of Indians, who happen to live in a tent called Tippy, and they live in a deep forest like Tippy. The last reason is that the film directed by Mr Hitchcock is called Birds. Tippy likes birds very much. She was born and raised among them. African wild animals are Tippy's earliest friends and Tippy knows them very well.

Tippy is just part of her name. The full name is Tippy Benjamin O 'Connor de Grey. De Gray is his parents' surname, his father's name is Allen, and his mother's name is Sylvie. They are all photographers who specialize in shooting wild animals. Tippy was born in Africa because of their occupation. As for Tippy's full name, Benjamin was added to thank a friend named Benjamin. When Tippy came into this world, his mother lived in this friend's house. At that time, Tippy's parents were running around in the jungle, and it was not good to have children in the wild. So when Tippy was born, Benjamin took his mother to live in a village called Venetuk, where there was a hospital.

Tippi's name is also called "Aokangdi", which is the pronunciation of Owambo language used by an aborigine in Namibia, meaning "Meng". Although the name sounds good, it's a bit strange to call your daughter Meng.