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Vivian Dsena’s wife Nouran Aly on their interfaith wedding, reveals actor insisted on converting: ‘He said I am doing it for myself’
Nouran Aly opened up about how she was sceptical about getting married to Vivian Dsena even after he decided to convert to Islam. She said she didn't speak with him for six months.

Actor Vivian Dsena has been a celebrated name in the Indian TV fraternity. Considered among the most popular stars on the medium, Vivian has now appeared on Bigg Boss 18. The actor converted to Islam in 2019 and married Egyptian journalist Nouran Aly in 2022. Recently, Nouran appeared on Bigg Boss 18, after which she opened up about the challenges she and Vivian’s relationship went through initially. In a conversation with Galatta India, Nouran said that she received hate and faced accusations of love jihad when Vivian converted to Islam to marry her. She said she was so concerned about the fallout that she even parted ways with him for six months.
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Nouran shared, “I was accused of love jihad for converting Vivian to Islam. He also faced trolling on social media, and maybe it affected his work pattern too. We have a lot of differences in terms of belief or language barrier, I had very clearly told him that in my religion, I could not do an interfaith marriage with him, it is not acceptable on my side and I respect that. Vivian was a Christian, and its core is very similar to Islam. But since women don’t convert to our religion, I stayed away for six months because I was very worried and scared wondering if he would do this for me.”
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She also added, “I thought the society won’t spare us, if he changed his religion for a woman, secondly, he would regret later if I didn’t meet his expectations. It was a big step. We didn’t speak for six months, and I would not respond to his messages, but then I got to know from a mutual friend that he kept studying my religion. I had zero interference in this, he met people, and then after six months, he told my friends that he wanted to speak with me. He said he was ready to convert, not for me but for himself, so even if I was not with him he would have adopted Islam. It took me 1-2 weeks to believe him that he was doing it for himself, I didn’t want him to be cut off from his roots for me.”
Nouran and Vivian’s love on the show has been adored by the audience. Nouran’s strong personality on Bigg Boss 18 made quite an impression.


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