Maria Malik

“I got so many messages, hala, from men and women saying, 'Thank you so much for talking about this because my sister's going through this or I went through this and I was so ashamed and I felt like my life was over and you talking about it is making me realize, wait a second, there's still so much more out there for me.'”

“The second time I told it, I the exact same story I posted. The second time it got 20 million views and that's when I started getting the phone calls.”

“It liberated me, hala, because it was something I was carrying with me. It's as like guilt somehow like it was my fault that I went through that.”

“When I was 17 years old, my parents took me back to Pakistan and got me to a man married to a man I didn't know.”