Mert Ramazan Demir He has become one of the Turkish actors of the moment. Your role of Ferit Kohan in a new life It has earned him recognition from critics and the public, establishing himself as an international star. In fiction, he plays a young man belonging to one of the most important families in Istanbulvery sure of himself, largely thanks to his last name, and used to always getting his way, until his grandfather forces him to marry a young woman he barely knows so that he can settle down. In real life, although he is one of the most desired Ottoman leading men, Mert, unlike his character, has acknowledged that, like everyone, he has felt insecurities with his physique, but that he has learned to live with them, to overcome them, and even to take them with humor.
© Star TVOn many occasions, some of our traits become our hallmark without even looking for it. Big eyes, a prominent nose, a chiseled jaw or a special smile can help shape our personality in front of others. However, although it is what makes us different, sometimes that particularity can create a complex for us. That’s exactly what happened to Mert Ramazan Demir with one of the most striking aspects of his physique: his eyebrows, which, although today he is considered a sex symbol, at some point in his life, have given him some headaches.
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© Star TVThe complex of Mert, 26, dates back to his adolescence, when his bushy eyebrows aroused the laughter of his classmates. “You should have seen me at the Institute. They made a lot of jokes about them.“, he revealed the protagonist of Sahmaran in an interview on the program The night with İbrahim Selim, when the presenter asked him if he shaved them. With a great sense of humor, he stated that “If you had eyebrows like mine, you would touch them too“.
© Star TVRemembering those times, Mert shared how his high school friends kept commenting on how thick his eyebrows were. “It was one of my biggest traumas“, he confessed, although, over the years, his perspective has changed and “Now it is one of the things I like the most.“However, he acknowledged that, in his youth, “the appearance of my eyebrows took away all my confidence“
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© @mertramazandemirHis insecurity grew to the point that one day, he felt so bad about this issue that he decided to end the teasing drastically. So, with a firm hand, “I cut my eyebrows with a machine. Only the edges remained“, he explained with a laugh when remembering an anecdote that, however, he admitted had marked him during his school days.
© Star TVAt that time, Mert was working in a bakery in the summer, and a woman, upon seeing him, asked him: “What have you done to those eyebrows?“. He said to him: “They are going to get angry“. He assured him that they were not going to grow any more and, indeed, the protagonist of Öğretmen He didn’t grow for a long time. “They took away all my confidence. I prayed a lot for them to grow. I tell it laughing, but at the time it was very difficult“, he narrated with amusement. Today, those same eyebrows that previously caused him complex have become one of the features that most define him and that, for many, give him a unique and attractive touch.