National Geographic Finds Girl in Famed Photo

Yahoo News (Reuters) ^ | Wed Mar 13,10:44 AM ET | Sue Pleming

[Shooter 2.5]

I haven't read their posts so I didn't know they had a problem with the identification of the lady.

Do you suppose they're looking at the picture wondering where the plane is?

[sonserae]

Probably. My nose isn't the same as it was when I was young. (check my profile)...a couple of busts in the schnaz and it can change quite drastically.

[Contra]

I saw a girl with bright green eyes like that once and she had on a pair of colored contact lenses. That's probably all it was, fake lenses.

[Contra]

I saw a girl with bright green eyes like that once and she had on a pair of colored contact lenses. That's probably all it was, fake lenses.

[Aedammair]

I agree; she's not nasty. In fact, I think she's still beautiful.

[Shooter 2.5]

You proved the point that the good looking ones put their portraits on their profile pages.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I'm so glad to see a few more sane people stepping up to defend this woman. What a bunch of Neanderthals! The more it gets like this, the more I start having doubts about FR.

We might have hit another new low on FR. Bashing a poor refugee for not being a babe.

I don't have my photo on my FR profile, but I do have this:We spend our lives going from one pair of eyes to another,one set of expectations to the next, looking for ourselves until one day,if we are lucky, we stop and decide to look inside, where, indeed,beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

It's something to think about.

[Shooter 2.5]

"she had on a pair of colored contact lenses."

She just got back from the mall, you know, and she couldn't wait to show them off to her friends, Buffy Muhamid and Muffy Adhib so she had her picture taken by an international photographer but, you know, like, this war broke out, which, you know, really put a damper on her day. You know?

[constitutiongirl]

I'd like to see what alot of people would look like living that hard of a life in spartan, inhospitable conditions. It's not like she has Mary Kay and Clinique.

[Lizavetta]

I'd love to see what her daughters look like....if they are as stunning as she was.

[crystalk]

I for one think she is still beautiful, and could be stunning if she had Western style clothing and hair, makeup etc. In fact, as a very attractive and green-eyed young woman, she was probably able to marry one of the most eligible (financially) bachelors that her string of villages had to offer, and would have had available to her anything on sale there...

As for poster above stating that she had 3 living daughters but no sons, Muslim men to whom sons are important usually take a second wife to improve the genetic odds...

But in a country where young women can sometimes be bought for $50, her (teenage) looks look like $2500 country to me...and she would probably still be snapped up if she suffered a divorce.

As to posters above saying that she had to ask her husband's permission to lift her veil, I would say that would be just a decent civil and customary thing for ANY married woman to do in a Muslim nation, and even in America if a woman's image were to be widely distributed and made available, a virtual second career in a sense, wouldn't it be nice to see how her husband felt about it?

I feel sure that in order to obtain her travel and co-operation to visit this photographer in the comfort of Pakistan, etc. that an amount changed hands, which I shall estimate at $12,000 USA.

Inshallah, in Afghanistan that will keep her and her family in comfortable circumstances for life, and by local standards my feeling is they already were...

[sonserae]

ahh....If that's a compliment, thank you...

[Shooter 2.5]

It's a compliment. You're welcome.

[angcat]

excuse me how dare you compare american women to that, i look fine without makeup (well not that bad) although i would not even get my mail without it........hehehehehe and i'm 37...............

[Redcloak]

Here's a better version of the picture...

I remember that cover and those haunting eyes. National Geographic has used it several times since then. It's good to know that she survived the Taliban. But it's also tragic to see those years etched in a face that captivated so many for so long.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Another thing the photo doesn't show you... she probably has more eyes than teeth.

SHE IS A POOR REFUGEE!! Don't you get it? That woman is lucky to be alive. Who cares that she doesn't use Crest with Extra Whitening and Tartar Control or goes for her twice yearly cleaning. Just the fact that she is still breathing on this planet is a blessing.