Please let me live, my body just reproduced: Juggun Kazim tells body-shamers

Actor ended up crying while narrating the haunting recollections of being body-shamed during and after pregnancy

Earlier, Juggun Kazim opened up about being fat shamed during her pregnancy and even after suffering a miscarriage.

The actor and TV host made the revelation in a lengthy Instagram post in September 2019, a week after she lost her child. Now, in an interview with BBC Urdu, Juggun has shared how traumatic it was for her to give birth and still be body shamed. 

She started off by recalling the time she gave birth to her first child and gained almost 30kg. “I used to cry secretly in the washroom,” she told the outlet, adding that she was forced to question her decision of giving birth.The talk show host then relayed how after giving birth to her youngest daughter recently, she received some really mean comments from her co-workers regarding her body.

“People passed such nasty comments about the size of my chest,” Juggun said, as she burst into tears. “I know I have a big size now and if I wasn’t breast feeding, I would’ve starved to make myself thinner.”She went on, “Even if I go on a hardcore keto diet, ketones will release in my milk and I can’t feed my baby like that.”

Speaking of the impact of body shaming on her mental health, Juggun explained, “I had really bad postpartum depression. I would wish the ground would open up and swallow me inside so when it closes, everything would end.” The celebrity disclosed that now she even walks in a way that her chest doesn’t appear “too big” to people. “Even when I walk now, I walk with a hunched back so that no one points out how big my chest is,” mentioned Juggun. “I don’t want to feel like this and no girl should feel this way.” 

In conclusion, Juggun urged everyone to stop passing comments on her body because she has just given birth. “Please let me live! My body has just reproduced. If it has to come back to its original form it will and if it can’t then it won’t. It is my decision what I do about my body.”

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