Hina Khan shaves her head

“Embrace this new version of yourself…” With a razor in hand, Hina Khan, who is battling cancer, bid adieu to her hair.

Transcript

00:00I choose to accept my battle scars nothing's going to change in fact you're

00:12more beautiful

00:25you can win this only if you embrace yourself, accept it and I choose to

00:31accept my battle scars because I believe that if you embrace yourself you're one

00:38step closer towards your healing and I really really want to heal and focus on

00:45that part and that aspect of my life. I don't want to go through that process

00:52where every time I put my hand in my hair and a bunch of hair falls it's very

00:59stressful

01:12so this is one of those things and remember you are still you nothing's

01:17going to change in fact you're more beautiful so embrace this new version of

01:22yourself embrace this new truth this new journey with every breath every cell

01:30every single time with every way possible trust me it's really really

01:34going to help you got to be mentally very very strong

01:57so this is my first shoot after my chemo session first chemo session nervous

02:05trying to hide the stitches as much as we can everyone's trying to make an

02:11effort I've put a wig on with fringes Hina is hiding my stitches we are not

02:18going to give up

02:25so yes the show must go on we will fight it and we'll come out of it and we'll

02:33keep shooting we'll keep working hard and we will win