Zara Noor Abbas raises concern over anti-aging and whitening injections or supplements encouraged under societal pressure. Zara Noor has been an outstanding actress in the Pakistani film industry with an Instagram following of 6.8 million. She addresses the media and audience via Instagram story, condemning the promotion of anti-ageing injections or slimming drops.
She leaves provoking questions about the credentials and standards of the showbiz industry, which restricts the shelf life of female actresses but promotes aged male actors with younger actresses.
The showbiz industry has been standing firm with ageism while choosing leading female roles. Due to stereotypical standards of South Asian society, a female actress with a fair complexion and sleek body type is preferred over a bulky actress for leading roles. The so-called standards of beauty force actresses to use injections and procedures to get slimmer, whiter, and younger.
Condemning promoting these standards, Zara quotes, “slimming drops, a medication that makes you lose weight or turns your skin colour lighter – please stop promoting these. Drug abuse with medication is the worst sort of addiction”.
Speculations were raised over the death of a Bollywood actress, Shifali Jariwal, who died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 42. The postmortem reports show cardiac arrest as a side effect of using anti-ageing injections for the last eight years. This raises concerns about following the beauty standard blindly against the process of nature, ruining lives.
In an Instagram post, she promoted vanity as short-lived while intelligence and brain will last. Encouraging every woman to work on themselves for mental peace rather than following unreasonable trends and standards that destroy your body. She posted,
