Pakistani celebrities are sure defying the stereotypes of beauty and embracing themselves as they are. Recently, actress Mahira Khan has graciously embraced her age and now Hania Amir has posted her raw selfies snowing her struggles with acne.
Taking to Instagram, Hania Amir wrote a long note stating how she was going through anxiety because of her acne but later she decided to come out of the pressure as her skin does not define her.
“So I’ve always struggled with mild acne. Always had these bumps on my forehead that just wouldn’t budge! I had gotten used to them. But the journey I’ve been on for a couple of months has been quite a painful one,” she began.
“I’d just come back to Chitral from a day trip to Kalash and after I had washed my face it started to burn and my skin went red. I didn’t take it seriously but the next day I had these tiny red bumps all over my face. I freaked out but didn’t let it get the best of me because I was at work. They would show on camera, everybody started to ask me, started with the totkas and then came the anxiety. Kher, when I got back, they kind of calmed down. My skin looked clearer than before. But some three months back, it started to act up again and it was even worse this time!” she continued.
The actress said that she kept it clean and tried almost everything, including toners, creams, dermatologists, but nothing seemed to fix her skin. “I had my night and days of crying, feeling insecure and anxious. Makeup wouldn’t help. I was a mess but I went through it and got out of it too,” she said.
Taking to Instagram, Hania Amir wrote a long note stating how she was going through anxiety because of her acne but later she decided to come out of the pressure as her skin does not define her
She then went to a different doctor who prescribed her some medicines.
“My skin has been better than before. But it made me wonder, why is my skin defining me? Who has made these beauty standards that we always feel the need to match? The society? Clear skin is beauty? I know that the idea of being ‘perfect’ is appealing to majority but you don’t need to be an airbrushed flawless image to feel beautiful,” she said.
The ‘Parwaaz Hai Junoon’ star went on to say that nobody should feel the pressure of matching the ridiculous societal beauty standards. “Have your own. Beauty is within and anybody who makes you feel small because of what you look like shouldn’t be around you!” she said.
Amir further said that being a celebrity doesn’t mean perfection.
“It only means we’ve chosen a profession that makes us and our lives public but certainly not that we don’t go through issues in life; every individual has their own. Perfection is not what we should be seeking, being comfortable in our own skin is the key,” she said.
“This is my skin at the moment. Better than before but still not quite okay. But until I tackle it am I going to hide myself from the world? Shy away from people? No. Yes, I’m struggling but my skin doesn’t define me,” the actress added.