Mina Arnaouti spoke out publicly on 24 August 2026 against years of comments about the car accident that changed her life, her appearance, her job and the choices she makes today, saying the questions and criticism aimed at her have gone too far.
She said she was not responding to a single incident but to a build-up of comments, questions and opinions that, in her words, keep surfacing years after the crash. She wrote that people who seem unusually interested in her life, her accident, her body, her job and what she does or does not do had prompted her to set the record straight, adding that she did not feel she owed anyone an explanation but that some of it had crossed the line from simple curiosity.
Her job and an incident involving her employer
One issue she raised was her work. She said that after photos she had posted on social media revealed where she worked, people began phoning her employer, insulting him and sending emails about her. Since then, she said, she has chosen not to reveal publicly where she works again, not because she has anything to hide but because her job is nobody else's business and is not a space anyone has the right to invade simply because they disagree with her or have an opinion about her life. She said her presence on social media does not mean every part of her daily life is open to comment.
Questions about her body and the scars from her surgeries
Arnaouti also addressed comments about her body and the scars left by the operations she underwent after the accident, directly answering the question of how, after so many procedures, she has no visible marks.
She said she has previously shared photos showing the scars and does not believe she needs to show them again to prove what she has been through. She said she spent five and a half months in hospital, two months of that in intensive care, and underwent seventeen operations. She added that medical records exist documenting everything that followed the crash, and that she has no obligation to prove her story to anyone on a daily basis by posting photos of her body.
"My private life is not worth less because I have social media"
She also pushed back on the argument that anyone who maintains a public social media presence should expect to face negative comments. Having social media, like millions of other people, she said, does not mean she has chosen to turn her life into an object of public commentary or has given up every right to privacy and respect.
She said that when she has chosen to speak publicly about her case in the past, it was mainly about its legal and judicial dimension, adding that she has faced a great deal of mud-slinging over the years. She said speaking out now is not about attracting attention but about ensuring her own version of events, discussed for years, is also heard.
The line she is drawing
In the final part of her post, Arnaouti shifted from the past to the present. She said she is not asking anyone to feel sorry for her, to agree with her, or even to like her. What she is asking for, she said, is a limit.
She said that having a presence on social media does not mean she has to apologise for how she lives, how she works, what her body looks like or what she chooses to show. She noted that reports, interviews, records and medical documents exist for anyone who wants to properly inform themselves about her case.
She closed her post by suggesting that everyone else spend less time focused on the life of someone they do not know and more on their own. Her life, she wrote, is not public property just because she has a social media account.
