In a candid and revealing conversation on a podcast with host Frieha Altaf, Zhalay Sarhadi dove into the deeply personal aspects of her journey, sharing her experiences with miscarriages and health challenges.
Zhalay began by bravely discussing her difficult encounters with miscarriages, highlighting a misdiagnosis during her second loss that led to a severe infection and a distressing medical procedure. Additionally, Zhalay disclosed grappling with hypothyroidism post-miscarriage, a condition that requires constant management.
She shared, "Firstly, it's not because of anything lacking in you – it just happens. That's what my doctor told me. I had three pregnancies - they all ended very early on," revealed Zhalay. She furthered, "The second time was when I was shooting for Jalebi. If you've seen that scene where I'm beating a man whilst on top of him, I was actually going to have an operation the next day...I had already had a miscarriage and it was a bad one at that."
"It is when I developed hypothyroidism." She dove into an explanation of the same. "I cried for days, I didn't know why I was crying," she shared, highlighting how she had to remind herself that she was not unhappy.