When she was 16, Tala Raassi was arrested at the birthday party of her friend. The religious police of Iran charged her for ‘indecent dressing’. She was sentenced to five days imprisonment and 40 lashes of the whip.
Few months after the public whipping, her family relocated to Dubai and the United States eventually, where she was able to fulfill her dream of being a fashion designer.
Almost 20 years after, she has since started her own successful lingerie and swimsuit line, Dar Be Dar.
In her autobiography, Fashion is Freedom, she described the harrowing feeling she got during the ordeal: ‘Suddenly I felt the leather whip, drenched in water, lash viciously across my back. The pain was excruciating, and I was so petrified that I lose my voice. I could hear the whip whooshing through the air back and forth, and my back felt like it had just caught on fire. It was burning. I thought I was going to pass out. There were no screams left in me…’
Raasi has been listed on Newsweek magazine’s Most Fearless Women In The World.
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