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Urfi Javed opens up about her traumatic teens: 'I ran away'

Urfi Javed ran away from her home at 17 because of abuse and allegations

Zainab Nasir

Urfi Javed opens up about her traumatic teens: 'I ran away'

Urfi Javed ran away from her home at 17 because of abuse and allegations

Urfi Javed opens up about her traumatic past: I ran away
Urfi Javed opens up about her traumatic past: 'I ran away'

Social media influencer Urfi Javed  had a troubled childhood which prompted her  to run away from home at the sweet age of 17. 

It all began  the day when someone put up all her pictures on a  porn site and this took her parents by shock. 

In a candid chat with Humans of Bombay, Urfi said,  "When I was 15, someone uploaded my picture to a porn site. It was a normal picture. I uploaded it wearing a tube top as my Facebook profile photo. Someone downloaded them and uploaded them on a porn site without morphing, without anything." 

" Slowly, everyone got to know about it. Everyone started blaming me a lot. I was told I am a porn star. I was like ‘Where is the video?’ But they said, ‘No, no she is a porn star." 

She then added, "Even my father was like ‘She is a porn star’. I think my father was trying to gain sympathy from all this. He was telling everyone that porn site people are asking for ₹50 lahks. He told our relatives. I was like that isn't possible but I couldn't say anything because they were beating me up at home." 

"I was so confused that 'I am the victim here, why are you hitting me?' But they were not ready to believe it… I endured that for two years. It was just too much to take from relatives, my own father. I was 17 when I ran away."

After abandoning home with sisters the now famed Urfi found an abode in Lucknow and tutored kids to pay her rent. 

She suffered great financial crisis and later took up job in a call center in Delhi but she was not happy. In due time she resigned. 

Urfi then relocated to Mumbai and that is where she found peace  as she auditioned for some acting roles and by luck  found good work on the small screen. 

Now she knows how to capture hearts and is doing great with experimenting new looks  from wearing a strap dress to rocking cotton candy. 

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