diff --git a/docarray/document/mixins/multimodal.py b/docarray/document/mixins/multimodal.py
index ff1b040c7ce..4cebec66d17 100644
--- a/docarray/document/mixins/multimodal.py
+++ b/docarray/document/mixins/multimodal.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import typing
 
 from docarray.dataclasses.types import (
-    Field,
     is_multimodal,
     _is_field,
     AttributeTypeError,
@@ -104,7 +103,6 @@ def _from_dataclass(cls, obj) -> 'Document':
         # TODO: may have to modify this?
         root.tags = tags
         root._metadata[DocumentMetadata.MULTI_MODAL_SCHEMA] = multi_modal_schema
-
         return root
 
     def _get_mm_attr_postion(self, attr):
@@ -208,7 +206,17 @@ def _has_multimodal_attr(self, attr):
     def __getattr__(self, attr):
         if self._has_multimodal_attr(attr):
             mm_attr_da = self.get_multi_modal_attribute(attr)
-            return mm_attr_da if len(mm_attr_da) > 1 else mm_attr_da[0]
+            attr_type = self._metadata[DocumentMetadata.MULTI_MODAL_SCHEMA][attr][
+                'attribute_type'
+            ]
+            if attr_type in [
+                AttributeType.ITERABLE_DOCUMENT,
+                AttributeType.ITERABLE_NESTED,
+                AttributeType.ITERABLE_PRIMITIVE,
+            ]:
+                return mm_attr_da
+            else:
+                return mm_attr_da[0]
         else:
             raise AttributeError(f'{self.__class__.__name__} has no attribute `{attr}`')
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/document/test_multi_modal.py b/tests/unit/document/test_multi_modal.py
index 7f9443a2c6d..da2896a8273 100644
--- a/tests/unit/document/test_multi_modal.py
+++ b/tests/unit/document/test_multi_modal.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from docarray import Document, DocumentArray
+from docarray.array.chunk import ChunkArray
 from docarray.dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from docarray.typing import Image, Text, Audio, Video, Mesh, Tabular, Blob, JSON
 from docarray.dataclasses.getter import image_getter
@@ -911,3 +912,24 @@ class A:
         text: List[Text]
 
     doc = Document(A(text=[]))
+
+
+def test_doc_with_dataclass_with_list_of_length_one():
+    @dataclass
+    class MyDoc:
+        title: Text
+        images: List[Image]
+
+    doc = Document(MyDoc(title='doc 1', images=[IMAGE_URI]))
+    assert type(doc.images) == ChunkArray
+    assert len(doc.images) == 1
+
+
+def test_doc_with_dataclass_without_list():
+    @dataclass
+    class MyDoc:
+        title: Text
+        image: Image
+
+    doc = Document(MyDoc(title='doc 1', image=IMAGE_URI))
+    assert type(doc.image) == Document