Ananya Panday opens as much as Lilly Singh about being skinny-shamed, admits to Bollywood’s unrealistic magnificence requirements
Ananya Panday is not shying away from calling out issues as they’re. In an trustworthy, sit-down chat with Lilly Singh on the latter’s podcast, Ananya opened up in regards to the very actual eventuality of simply not profitable when it got here to a unanimous stamp of approval. She went into element about how when she had made her Bollywood debut with Scholar of the Yr 2 (2019), she was incessantly skinny-shamed for having “rooster legs” and looking out like a “matchstick”. Nonetheless, when rising up her physique started to do its factor, naturally filling out and giving her her delicate curves, there was nonetheless loads of unfounded conjecture nonetheless going round.
Ananya shared, “I used to be 18-19 after I began out and I used to be actually skinny you understand, and everybody, you understand, used to form of make enjoyable about that and so they have been like ‘oh, you’ve gotten rooster legs and you want, seem like a matchstick, and you do not have tits, and you do not have an ass’. In order that was what it was first. And now that I am rising up and form of, identical to, naturally, my physique is filling out, they’re like ‘oh, there isn’t any approach, she’s bought her butt carried out or she’s bought this carried out’…You possibly can by no means win”.
Being fully trustworthy, Ananya even went as far as to name girls out for not being ladies’ ladies — all the time subjecting a fellow lady to this type of scrutiny, however by no means a person. She articulated, “Individuals will continuously have one thing to say and criticise that and that is one thing that I’ve seen. Particularly with girls. I do not really feel like they do this to males in any respect”.
That being stated, this was not some self-serving rant. Ananya’s very subsequent segue grew to become about how, Bollywood at giant, however she herself has additionally been at fault for selling unrealistic magnificence requirements: “I really feel prefer it’s our fault additionally, as a result of we now have set unrealistic magnificence requirements within the movies that we have…you understand I…as an actress, (generally) do put that messaging on the market, the movies that ‘I’ve carried out or the songs that I’ve carried out that ‘oh, you are stunning, you get up within the morning, your hair is completed, and it isn’t true! and also you form of should stability that out someplace”.
And the way precisely is Ananya managing that? “You need to discuss it, it’s a must to inform folks that that is not the fact. We additionally do not seem like that. And I, attempt to stability that out, possibly, by not being like that after I’m, you understand, off digicam”, she provides.
Ananya was final seen within the Akshay Kumar and R Madhavan-led Kesari Chapter 2. She is at present filming for Chand Mera Dil, additionally starring Lakshya.
