'The stress added ten years to my age': FHM India's 'naked' covergirl claims she was threatened after claiming shoot was doctored

By MAYSA RAWI



The actress claims she was in the past approached to pose for nude pictures by other agencies, but always refused



The Pakistani model at the centre of the FHM India row says the stress caused by the scandal has aged her.

Veena Malik is suing the publishers of the magazine claims cover was doctored to make her appear nude when she actually posed in clothes.

But she revealed today that since launching her lawsuit, she has been threatened in an attempt to get her to drop it.

The 33-year-old told the Mail Online: 'I feel completely cheated. They've added ten years to my age. 'They threatened to sue me if I don't keep quiet.'



Veena said FHM India would contact her twenty times a day to convince her to pose for the magazine - and then refused to return her calls following publication



Malik appeared naked on the cover of the December issue of FHM India with just her arms and legs covering her modesty, sporting a tattoo of the initials 'ISI' on her arm, a reference to Pakistan's intelligence agency.

The image sparked outrage in her homeland.

She said: 'The image we shot was completely different to the one on the cover. I was wearing hot pants and they promised me they would cover my upper body with multiple tattoos.

'Instead, they removed the hot pants.'



Veena is hoping to reconcile with her father, who has disowned her since seeing the pictures



She also claims the editor-in-chief Kabeer Sharma and the journalist who interviewed her refused to respond to her calls following the release of the issue, despite being in daily contact with them prior to the shoot.

FHM India is owned by Maxposure, separate to the UK-owned FHM, which is published by Bauer Media.

Since then, Malik says she has received a legal notice from FHM India which she claims was 'aggressive' in tone, and she says threatened her with character defamation if she did not retract her allegations.



In January she attacked attacked hardline clerics in Pakistan who demand modest Muslims should be suitably covered at all times.

She also launched a stringent attack on honour killings, highlighting that women were always the target and not men.

After making her name has a star in 'Lollywood' movies - the term used to describe films made in Lahore - she found greater fame when she took part in Big Boss 4, the Indian version of Big Brother, last year.



source: dailymail