Tahira Kashyap, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, shared her journey with humor on Instagram. Despite her parents’ disapproval of her bald photo, she embraced her new look.
Tahira Kashyap was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018.
Tahira Kashyap was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and she openly shared it on Instagram. Adding her signature humour to the tough situation, she had joked about competing with the Kardashians, thanks to the opportunity to enhance her features.
In a conversation with Filmfare, Tahira recalled her lighthearted approach to the situation, saying, “I was like doctor, do this to me. Now you have an opportunity. I have been wanting some lovely nice assets all my life, now is the time since I am going under the knife. I might as well. But, he didn’t and I was so disappointed in him. I was like, ‘Listen, I gave you an opportunity’, but I made light of the situation and very honestly, I don’t take myself too seriously and I think none of us should.”
Tahira also opened up about her parents’ reaction to her bold decision of posting a bald picture after her cancer diagnosis. She admitted that her father wasn’t thrilled about it, saying, “My parents got really upset with me when I put my bald picture of myself (after the cancer diagnosis). A bald look for a woman is synonymous with a disaster somehow, so they refused to talk to me and were forcing me to take it down. But I said, ‘I am not doing that. I am celebrating right now, which you need to understand.’ They actually thought I have lost it. They were like how can you celebrate physical illness?”
She went on to share how she finally got her mother to accept her new look. “I didn’t know how to make my parents speak to me so I video called my mother and showed myself to her. I said, ‘Look at me, this is how I look right now and I am loving it.’ I was also wearing goggles and she sort of laughed and smiled. And then I told her this is how life is, and I am happy and you need to be happy for me. They were still clueless about ‘feeling happy’.”
Tahira Kashyap, filmmaker and author, is married to actor Ayushmann Khurrana and has made a name for herself with her books and films. Her directorial debut, Sharmaji Ki Beti, came out last year.
