Muniba Mazari was born on 3rd March 1987 in Pakistan. She did her bachelors in Fine Arts and got married at the age 18, as her father asked her to. From there her life transformed with a question for her purpose. She shared her life story in 2014 TEDx event and melted millions of hearts. The Prize to become an Iron lady started from her unhappy marriage life. After two years of marriage when her husband and she was travelling to her hometown, her husband Khurram Shahzad fell asleep while driving the car and it caused a dreadful accident. In that accident, her husband saved himself and she was stuck in the car. It was a far flung area and there was no hospitals and first aids, the people in the area dragged her out of the car and put her in a jeep to take her to a hospital which was three hours away. She got admitted in the hospital for two and a half months. She wanted to become an artist but the doctor told she won’t be able to paint again because her wrist and arm were deformed, she won’t be able to walk again as her spine injury was bad and because of her spine injury and the fixation she had on her back she won’t be able to give birth to a child. She was able to accept her disability to walk and paint but as a women who always thought motherhood is what completes a women she couldn’t accept the disability of not being able to give birth and she was devastated. After she got discharged from the hospital she was bed-ridden for two years.
“I need to
accept myself the way I am”.
“It all
starts from within”.
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Muniba Mazari.
She was
afraid to face people who saw her disability. She overcame her fears one by
one. She adopted a boy child, Nael Mazari. She was able to paint well in her
later years. She became Pakistan’s first wheelchair bound artist. UN appointed
her as Pakistan’s National goodwill ambassador. She was featured in BBC 100
women for 2015 and also she was one of the Forbes 30 under 30 for 2016. Now,
this women who sacrificed all her dreams and got married only to stay a doll
for a man and who left her alone when he found disability in her, now she is an
uplift to so many broken souls. Muniba started her career as a content writer
and ended up an activist, anchor, artist, model, singer, motivational speaker
and the Iron lady of Pakistan.
