Dad Pressures Daughter to Marry a Man She Doesn’t Love—3 Yrs Later, a Car Crash Wakes Her Up to the Life She Deserves

Affectionately known as Pakistan’s “Iron Lady,” Muniba Mazari is a role model whose take on life is nothing short of her powerful nickname.

After getting married at just 18 years old to please her father, Muniba found herself in an unhealthy marriage to a man she didn’t love. As circumstance would have it, Muniba felt stuck.

Then, when she was 21, she and her husband were involved in a car accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Her backbone was crushed, and she sustained multiple fractures in her ribs, collarbone, shoulder and arm.

Her husband was able to escape the vehicle and survived without a scratch.
In the two and a half months Muniba spent in the hospital following the accident, doctors told her that she’d never be able to walk again, paint again or give birth to a child.

Once determined to live her life as a committed house-wife, Muniba was now questioning her existence altogether.