Uorfi Javed: I Was Told I Am A Porn Star, Father Used To Beat Me Up

Uorfi Javed made new for her quirky outfits and also became one of the designer's favourites recently. However, her growing-up days were not so smooth as she had to run away from her house because of an incident that shook her up.

Speaking to Humans of Bombay, Uorfi mentioned that it all started when someone put up one of her pictures on a porn site. "When I was 15, someone uploaded my picture on 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 it 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 said.

“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 lakh. 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,” she added.

Uorfi says that she left home with her sisters and found a place to live in Lucknow. She paid rent by tutoring kids and later moved to Delhi. She, later, moved to Mumbai, lived in a PG, auditioned for roles and found small work on television.

Now she is the brand's favourite with associations with brands Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla and Rahul Mishra.