arbab siddiqui

Hey Fanpoppers!

I know I'm still a rookie at this interview thing, but I'm starting to get the hang of it (I think) and to be honest I'm also developing a taste for asking a lot of questions. Muahahaha!..ahem..anyway..

She's a great individual, with interesting ideas, strong beliefs and she's very funny too. She has a way with words that lets her express her opinions very clearly and she's constantly mediating when some situations get out of hand; I'm sure a lot of you have seen it around Fanpop. She's a joy to talk to and most definitely made of awesome.

Anyway, she took some time out from her...

This article is the first of a series, and was most recently updated on 6 March 2008.

I'd been planning on profiling the various people who'd been selected by the Fanpop users as "Fans of the Fortnight" for months, but it was only after link that I took any time to do so. I started my initial inquiries back in January, followed by fact-checking and quote-gathering from other users. The problem was, I figured that news travels fast in the Fanpop world, and I didn't want any recipients feeling slighted that I hadn't asked them for an interview...so I interviewed them all at once. What resulted...

She was just a girl of fifteen, but she had long ago lost that naivety and innocence of girls her age. While her dearest chums spent their days thinking about clothes and their latest crush, she spent her days doing something much differently. She couldn’t tell her friends about it though, they wouldn’t understand. They would criticize and call her horrible names. They’d never accept what she had become. She was completely alone in her secret desires, alone except for the strangers she let into her life each day. It was her need for the approval of those strangers that had caused her...