Sameera Reddy, who made her Bollywood debut with Maina Dil Tujhko Diya in 2002 spoke about the beauty standards that exists in Bollywood and how she tried to fit in.
In an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble, talking about the beauty standards in Bollywood, the actress said, “I was told I was too dark, too tall and too broad. I didn’t fit into that girl next door look. I had to constantly fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don’t regret it because it was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally. You have to go through a point where you actually hate yourself because when you come to this point of hating yourself so much and break into pieces, you can put yourself back together in the most beautiful way possible”.
“It was not discrimination. More than that it was more of you have to look a certain way, whether you have to pad your chest or hips. There was always something that i had to fix”, the actor added.
Sameera was last seen in the Kannada film Varadhanayaka in 2013. When she was pregnant with her second child, she started a campaign #imperferctlyperfect, where she addressed women and girls with body image issues and preached self love. She also opened up experiencing depression and putting on a lot of weight after her first pregnancy.
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