In daring Facebook post Zareen Khan posts old obese photos – my stretch marks are my tiger stripes, beware body shamers

April 6, 2016, NewsCrunch

Zareen Khan, who is frequently targeted by body-shamers for being fat, has taken on her critics with head on.

She posted a message on her Facebook page on Monday along with two photos with a war cry – it is her body and there is nothing about it she is ashamed of it

One photo was taken when she was in 9th and another in 12th.

Both of them show an obese teenager, not a girl on her way to Bollywood.

In her Facebook post, Zareen Khan says she never let people’s comments or ideas bother her.

She decided to lose weight not because peer pressure but because she wanted to see how it feels to be a little lighter. She began her weight loss journey and liked it as she had had lots more energy than before and was transforming into a new person.

But after she entered Bollywood, her weight again became an issue with her critics.

The old photos shows where she had started the journey from; everything she is now is an achievement, she asserts.

Zareen Khan says it is her life and her body and only she has the right to decide what she is going to do with it.

She saves the best for the end. The weight loss came with lots of stretch marks and instead of hiding it, Zareen Khan believes in flaunting it.

It makes me feel like a tigress with her stripes, she says.

Zareen Khan’s message is well received. Her Facebook post has gone viral in the last  24 hours. It has been liked by 94,000 followers and 3,600 have commented on it showing their support.