“I censored my actions. I tried to be as invisible as possible.”
Zainab Chughtai, a Lahore-based criminal lawyer, made a video where Pakistani women revealed the ways they have been body-shamed, and the effect it has had on them.
In 2014, Chughtai founded BullyProof, which is a social awareness campaign that addressed the issue of bullying in schools. As a part of BullyProof, she holds sessions with young students and has addressed over 4000 students so far, mostly young women.
The video gives a heartbreaking look into the words women have heard about their bodies.
Chughtai told BuzzFeed that the women featured in the video were all participants in a community based therapy group.
Zainab Chughtai / Via Piphany Productions / Tabish Habib
And their size was something they were most shamed for.
Zainab Chughtai / Via Piphany Productions / Tabish Habib
They opened up about how society damaged them without realisation, forever.
Zainab Chughtai / Via Piphany Productions / Tabish Habib