Ayesha Omar is among the biggest stars of Pakistani showbiz. She started her career with sitcom College Jeans and she has come a long way since then. She has performed different roles and she has managed to establish herself as an original style icon. The actress is revisiting the biggest controversy of her career and shared her side.
Ayesha Omar is a girls’ girl and she has a few very close friends in the industry. Maria Wasti is a close friend and they both were vacationing in Thailand a few years back when their pictures were leaked. They were vacation pictures with Ayesha in a beach top in one while they wore summer dresses in others. She was heavily criticized at the time.
Ayesha revealed that she was wearing a swim suit with a sarong in one photo and skirts in others but the ckicks were shared without her consent. At that time she also lost a lot of work as our producers try to portray a certain image of a woman. She now works with an NGO against wrongful use of someone’s private data.
This is how she addressed the controversy after more than a decade on BBC Urdu:
The internet is reacting and debating on Ayesha Omar’s point of view. One user wrote, “Consent matters and it is very brave of Ayesha to speak about this.” Another added, “It takes courage to go through and then speak up about something like this.” One said, “You were not criticized because of our culture. Our religion does not allow this.” Here is what people think:
