Overview
- Oti Mabuse told ITV's Loose Women on Jan. 9 that she and her mother did not speak for a year after she chose professional dance over an expected engineering career.
- She said she has warned her mother to change comments about her baby's weight or risk reduced access to the child.
- Mabuse stressed the relationship is now repaired, calling her mother an "amazing" and much‑loved grandmother.
- She earned a civil engineering degree before pursuing dance, a decision her parents initially opposed despite her mother's earlier efforts to support her daughters' training in apartheid‑era South Africa.
- Coverage of her remarks has been presented alongside reports of other celebrity family disputes, reflecting wider media focus on private family dynamics.