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My Body Is None of Your Business
What a five-year-old comment about my postpartum body taught me about how we judge women
It was November 4, 2021, when I traveled 380 km from Lahore to Bhakkar with my eight-month-old baby to attend my brother’s wedding. I had barely been there for five minutes when an acquaintance passing by remarked,
“Look at the state you’ve let yourself get into after having children; you are completely unrecognizable.”
This doesn’t mean I had become incredibly beautiful after having the baby, to the point of being unrecognizable. Rather, she said this after looking at my distended belly and pimple-covered face.
It has been nearly five years since I met that woman. I can no longer clearly recall her face, yet I remember that comment of hers with perfect clarity to this day. Especially the recent trolling of Katrina Kaif brought back memories of that comment.
Katrina Kaif recently appeared in public with her husband, Vicky Kaushal, at the Ambani family’s Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. It should have been just another public appearance. Instead, photographs and videos of her quickly became a subject of discussion online, with people commenting on her changed appearance and postpartum weight. Some even compared her current appearance with older…
