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Great British Bake Off champion Nadiya Hussain claims her wedding day was ‘one of the worst days’ of her life.
Nadiya married husband Abdal when she was 19-years-old in an arranged marriage.
But the couple, who have been married for 11 years and have three children together, got off to a rocky start.
‘I have to say my wedding day was one of the worst days of my life,’ she says in her new BBC documentary The Chronicles of Nadiya, according to The Daily Mirror.
‘One of the unspoken rules is as a bride you have to behave submissively and look downcast.’
She added: ‘I was an emotional wreck and I cried through the whole thing. I didn’t smile very much.
‘You are literally on show and it’s something I was always really uncomfortable with.
‘The bride will often keep her head down. I never really understood it. It’s bizarre a bride is unhappy on her wedding day when really she should be happy.’
Hussain said she ‘wouldn’t dream’ of arranging her children’s marriages even though hers has worked out really well.
‘If I was the person I am now, I certainly would not have gone into a contract,’ she said.
(Picture: REX/Shutterstock)‘I wouldn’t take out a mortgage contract without knowing how much money I am putting in and what my mortgage is, so why would I sign a marriage contract where I don’t know what I am getting myself into?
‘I want something different for my children. I wouldn’t dream of arranging a marriage.’
In the two-part documentary, Nadiya travels from her birthplace in Luton to her family’s ancestral home in a village in rural Bangladesh.
The Chronicles of Nadiya will air on BBC1 on August 24 at 9pm, straight after the first episode of the new series of The Great British Bake Off.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/
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