Overview

• Shiny Doshi opened up about her father’s physical and verbal abuse, including calling her a 'prostitute' at age 16 for late-night print shoots to support her family.
• She recounted her childhood marked by domestic violence, where her father frequently hit her mother, leaving her and her brother terrified and hiding in their room.
• Doshi revealed that her parents fought 90% of the time and that societal stigma around divorce left her mother unable to escape the abusive marriage.
• At 16, after her father abandoned the family, she began working to provide for her mother and brother while fabricating stories to conceal their struggles.
• Despite her professional success, Doshi reflected on the enduring emotional impact of her father’s absence and the lack of a supportive paternal figure in her life.