Juggun Kazim shares emotional body-shaming experience after miscarriage

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Juggun Kazim shares emotional body-shaming experience after miscarriage

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LAHORE (Dunya News) – Renowned TV actor and host Juggun Kazim today (September 3) shared a personal emotional story of getting body-shamed during her pregnancy which later turned into an unfortunate miscarriage.

The 39-year-old actress took to Instagram and expressed the heartbreaking story of her miscarriage which she kept a secret despite all the fat-shaming comments. Owing to her secrecy, people fat-shammed her on gaining weight while being a prominent TV face of Pakistan.

 

 

 

 

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A humble request!!! Until a few days ago, I was pregnant. For some reason, I gained a lot of weight really really quickly. What shocked me was how much I started getting fat shamed. One lady said "lagta hai Lahore ki hawa laag gaye tumhain". Other women just told me bluntly that I had become a bit too “healthy.” Till now, I wasn t ready to share that I was expecting a baby because my pregnancies have generally been precarious. Last week I had a miscarriage. My doctor has now told me that this time it was quite serious and that there had been a lot of internal bleeding. I took a day off to mourn but then went back to work because, well, what else does one do? And the day after I resumed work, somebody again commented on how I was looking “extra healthy.” We need to stop fat shaming other people. People who are overweight know they are overweight. Their weight gain may be for any number of reasons, some desirable and some not. Yes, some people need to be encouraged to lead a more active lifestyle. But unless you are somebody’s mother or sister, don’t tell them what you think of their body. Life is short. Let’s try and live ours with kindness.

A post shared by Juggun Kazim (@juggunkazim) on Sep 3, 2019 at 1:15am PDT

Juggun revealed, “Until a few days ago, I was pregnant. For some reason, I gained a lot of weight quickly. What shocked me was how much I started getting fat-shamed. One lady said ‘lagta hai Lahore ki hawa laag gaye tumhain’. Other women just told me bluntly that I had become a bit too ‘healthy.’ Till now, I wasn’t ready to share that I was expecting a baby because my pregnancies have generally been precarious”.

She went on to talk about her miscarriage, “Last week I had a miscarriage. My doctor has now told me that this time it was quite serious and that there had been a lot of internal bleeding. I took a day off to mourn but then went back to work because, well, what else does one do? And the day after I resumed work, somebody again commented on how I was looking ‘extra healthy’.”

While sending out an awareness message she asserted, “We need to stop fat-shaming other people. People who are overweight know they are overweight. Their weight gain may be for any number of reasons, some desirable and some not. Yes, some people need to be encouraged to lead a more active lifestyle. But unless you are somebody’s mother or sister, don’t tell them what you think of their body”.

“Life is short. Let’s try and live ours with kindness,” she concluded with a piece of peaceful advice.

Juggun is married to Feisal H. Naqvi with whom she has a son named Hassan. The actress also has an elder son, Hamza from her former marriage.