{"id":23039,"date":"2026-07-03T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/video-zainab-qayoom-talks-about-life-love-her-modelling-days-and-acting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:56:37","slug":"video-zainab-qayoom-talks-about-life-love-her-modelling-days-and-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/?p=23039","title":{"rendered":"Video: Zainab Qayoom talks about life, love, her modelling days and acting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zainab Qayoom popularly known as ZQ was a successful model and then she forayed into television and became a well-known actor. However, she was quite selective with her projects. Lately, we have been seeing her in a lot of television plays, mostly in negative characters, however the actor believes she is remembered more in such roles. Some of her latest projects include <em>Shehnai<\/em>, <em>Qayamat<\/em> and recently concluded <em>Faryaad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with Aamna Isani of<em> Something Haute<\/em>, ZQ talked about her life, why she left modelling and opted to pursue a career in television and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I retired at the age of 32 as a model and I don&#8217;t regret it. I miss my slim physique. When you work as a model and hear things like you are gaining weight or your cheek bones are not visible often, you develop this habit of seeing yourself through a critical eye. I don&#8217;t view other people like this but for me, I will be never perfect,&#8221; she expressed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74140\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload_inited  wp-image-74140\" src=\"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/images\/2021\/04\/177696963_577164109923242_5380327232434606823_n.jpg\" alt=\"ZQ\" width=\"687\" height=\"687\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Aamna Isani with Zainab Qayoom<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I married when I realized it is time for me to do it, but it was a very non-serious approach and hence it lasted only for 10 months. I was heartbroken but I think it was more about a personal assessment when on thinks that they have failed in one department of their lives,&#8221; she said talking about her divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about her modelling career, ZQ thinks that modelling was different altogether during her days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was like a sisterhood and we never had quarrels on who is wearing what and getting what pay. I used to get PKR 5000 for walking on the ramp and PKR 2000 for a shoot at the beginning of my career, but it made me realize the value of money. But it slowly turned into something awkward when I heard strange rumours about junior models and I thought people might be thinking the same about me,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;I left modelling when I felt that people were looking at my body and not the clothes; which never crossed my mind earlier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview here to find out more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Zainab Qayyum on life, love and work I Qayamat I Shehnai I Faryad\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" data-trx-lazyload-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oy7eAHCPlk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left modelling when I felt that people were looking at my body and not the clothes, shares ZQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,39,214],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-23039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-entertainment","category-featured","tag-zainab-qayoomzq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.somethinghaute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}