Pakistan’s veteran actress Nadia Jamil recently took to social media to share that she has shaved her head post-chemotherapy as she is currently undergoing cancer treatment in the UK.
Turning to Instagram, the actor said she laughed and cried with the woman she saw in the mirror post-shaving her head.
In the midst of her painful battle with cancer, she said she is finding strength and patience in the words of the Quran.
“The night of Laylatulqadr I was reading Surah Yousaf & the words Fasabirun Jamil stayed with me from an ayat of the Surah. Not just patience..but a patience of deep beauty,” she wrote.
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She revealed she was petrified after her hair started falling in huge clumps.
“That night I washed & conditioned it sobbing, with rose smelling shampoo. I knew this was goodbye to a part of my self I had hid behind for years. My hair, like many of us,had been my vanity, the face I wanted to show the outside world. If it wasn’t looking good I felt nervous,bad about myself,” she shared.
“I have to admit it was an ugly death. That night I laughed & cried with the woman in the mirror. She looked quite crazy. I looked like an electrified laama. Wayne’s World meets Malang Baba,” she wrote.
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Jamil said that night she prayed for loving the new her, strength of character, to become a better parent and adult while also learning to put herself first.
“I prayed for strategies to end my relationship with loneliness & fear,that stems from child abuse. & I prayed for my creativity to be blessed,” she said.
“I looked at my eyes, my smile. This is Nadia Jamil. I held her hand & we marched off 4 #chemotherapy. That is another story,” she concluded.
She also shared that her college friend cum sister Rain shaved her head with her in solidarity.
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The Damsaa actress also extended Eid greetings to all the Muslims around the world.
