In a statement to mark her 46th birthday on July 23, Grace claimed her hip had been dislocated five months ago while she was working out in her gym.
There have also been reports from State House sources that Grace was not eating well – and had been confined to a diet of traditional foods and Chinese herbs normally prescribed for people living with serious illnesses.
“I don't eat much,” Grace said. “I only eat to keep body and soul together. I might have many cooks in my house and if I were somebody else I would eat anything (sic) all day but I watch what I eat.”
She said she was now on a diet of traditional foods such as sadza made from rapoko, pumpkin leaves, cowpeas and home-made popcorn. Grace also claimed that she was too busy to eat and only had one meal a day.
The woman whose shopping escapades at Harrods Department Store in London before she was slapped with a travel ban are well documented, claimed that she sewed all her clothes and even designed her own shoes.
She and her family are understood to have circumvented the travel ban by bringing in top designers from Europe, especially France, to take their orders.
During a 2009 United Nations conference, Grace attracted the attention of the French paparazzi when top Parisian shoemakers and clothes designers were seen making a beeline to her hotel room to take orders. One of the shoemakers was later invited to Harare.
“I don't wear anything from Harrods,” Grace claimed. “My clothes are different because they are my own designs. If you look at my clothes, they have no labels because I make them myself. When I hear people talking about how expensive (my clothes) look, I know it is because they are envious and would like to buy those clothes for themselves but do not know where I get them. I laugh and won't tell them.”
Meanwhile, Grace says she has finally attained her lifelong goal of getting a university degree – from a Chinese university. Some years ago, Grace tried to get an English degree from a top British university but flunked dismally.
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