Amir Khan’s wife Faryal Makhdoom says boxer’s family made plastic surgery jokes about her as bitter feud intensifies after she posted pic of his Muslim brother ‘passed out drunk’
AMIR Khan's wife has said her husband's family called her "Michael Jackson" in jibes that she had undergone plastic surgery.
Faryal Makhdoom said she had been regularly verbally abused by her in-laws, with the abuse so bad that she felt she had to go public.
Speaking out to This Morning, she said her relationship with her husband's family had started out well but had descended into name calling.
She said: "Over the years Amir’s brother and sister went on Twitter rants, went on Instagram rants talking about me saying I don’t get along with them, saying I'm very fake, saying I've done plastic surgery, calling me Michael Jackson – I was a pregnant woman; reading all that was not really nice.
"Anyway, I used to take it in, I was very, very patient about it – I thought my silence would probably make them stop."
But she said the family had not stopped abusing her, with the attacks continuing to "build up".
Faryal, 25, said she and Amir had been best friends before getting into a relationship but became worried when she realised the couple were making headlines.
She said: "When I went to the UK I saw that I was in the newspapers the next day, I said to him that my family raised me very strict and I can't have stories like this about me dating a boxer.
"A week later, he came to NYC with his parents and asked for my hand."
She said the engagement went "perfectly fine" but it was after about six months that her relationship with her future in-laws began to sour.
She said: "I had gotten engaged and everything went perfectly fine, towards six months in the engagement started to happen, I realised I wouldn't fit into the family."
She added the family had accused her of ruining Amir's trip to Pakistan after flying to the country to see him.
She said: "It's not in my nature to ever go public about personal matters, being so young and getting married into a public sphere has been difficult, over the years his brother and sister went on Twitter and Instagram rants about me saying I'm fake and that I've had plastic surgery.
"I was patient about it, I thought my silence would make them stop."
But she said she wanted to speak up for "everyone", not just herself.
She said: "For Amir's sake I have always tried and played my part and I feel like it was one-way love.
"I wasn't invited to his brother's wedding but I went anyway, they stopped talking to us for no reason, we never stopped talking to them. I would really like for us all to get along, it was their choice to move out, we never wanted that."
Her appearance on the morning program came after she apologised to her fans after sharing a photo of the boxer's brother lying "drunk" at a girl's house, saying she had been "stressed and angry".
But Faryal Makhdoom made no mention or apology to her husband's family after sharing the photograph in an ongoing feud with her in-laws she has claimed are abusive.
In the lengthy series of Snapchat videos, she said she had been attacked for "no reason" and had shared the photo when she was angry.
Speaking to the camera, she said: "Hey guys I wanted to apologise for the picture I put up earlier.
"I was a bit angry and I felt like I needed to justify myself."
She added: "I have been travelling every single day during the US tour and I was just getting so stressed out reading the comments of people talking about my dressing and things that are not really as important as what I stand up for.
"That made me stressed and angry.
"I got so much support and then suddenly so much hate for absolutely no reason.
"Not realising anger took over and that it would hurt so many of my followers, and the young girls that follow me - I really do apologise."
Her Snapchat apology to her fans came after she shared the humiliating photo, saying: "My dressing is an issue? Double standards?
"Like Harry lying naked and drunk at a girl's house, sisters wearing no 'dupatta'.
"I guess that's bc [sic] that's there [sic] blood & I'm just a daughter-in-law."
She uploaded additional snaps, fuming at the family's "disgusting thinking".
In one she wrote: "After all, the biggest issue is my dressing!?
"What the actual f..... my biggest issue is NOT getting accepted and going through three years of hell and that's ok?
"Because? What disgusting thinking. TYPICAL."
Another said: "You can be a robber, a thief, a murderer but as long as you're a mother and you cry, people will sympathize [sic] ...
"Whether you're lying or telling the truth? How unfair!"
Faryal also raged: "U can fake tears. But you can't fake proof.
"I have a mother too, who's cried. Just because she's not done it in the public to look innocent doesn't mean she doesn't have a heart.
"Soon I'll reveal everything, I hate liars! And I will keep speaking up."
The family has been torn apart by a public war-of-words after Faryal, 25, accused Amir's parents of abuse.
Khan has since hit out at his wife and his parents in a furious Twitter rant and urged them to end their "childish" feud.
Faryal made the claims in an explosive Snapchat rant last week, accusing her in-laws Falak and Shah Khan of slapping her, hurling a remote control at her and cropping her out of family photos.
Falak and Shah have since hit back and claimed they fell out with Faryal because they feel the clothes she wears do not fit with their Islamic dress code.
However, Amir has now waded into the row himself and sensationally declared that they will "lose a son and a husband" if they do not stop fighting.
In a message posted on Twitter this week, he wrote: "I apologise on the silly picture and message my wife Faryal put up.
"Here is me working my ass off helping the less fortunate with charity dinners and my family and wife are destroying my name.
"I didn't want to get involved in this mess...
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"My parents are my parents and my wife is my wife.
"Whatever misunderstanding has happened, they should keep it private.
"This is getting to the point where they will lose a son & a husband.
"Childish behaviour. Both parties need to stop this. I've had enough."
The catwalk model married Amir, 30, in 2013 and they are parents to a daughter, Lamaisah, who was born in 2014.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday after her Snapchat outburst, Faryal explained: “I never felt I could do anything right. I was bullied physically and mentally.
"One day I said, ‘Enough of this s***, I’m going to speak up. I’ve had it for three years and that’s enough’.’”
She says ex-world champ Amir had also stood up to his family, adding: “My husband feels like a man now. He’s much happier and so am I.”
Speaking about the rift for the first time, Amir's dad said: "Faryal was adopting a dress code which in the Islamic faith was not acceptable. I am a father to two daughters whom I have treated exactly the same way as I have treated Faryal.
"All this started with the issue of dressing. We kept asking Amir to tell her not to adopt such a dress code. And even if she had to wear such dresses, please don’t post it on social media."
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