Actor Raveena Tandon recently came vocal about how she was being body shamed by people in the showbiz industry. While speaking to Smita Prakash in her podcast powered by ANI, the actor said that it does not bothers her of being ‘plump.’ She also mentioned that she had to come to terms with the utterly disgraceful journalism filled with ‘viciousness’ in the 90s and thereby took sometime off after her marriage.
While speaking on the same lines, she told ANI, “I was plump actually. Started at 16 and a half years, and I was full of baby fat yaar… which still hasn’t gone. Though I don’t care now, I am being like that, I am like that, too bad!”
She added when asked about exaggerating her facts, “I remember some of these titles. And not only me, but some other heroines are also called that. Besides that, instead of supporting women, what they did was…firstly all these women editors would fall in love with the heroes. And what the heroes said were the last words. If he wanted to pan a woman, the woman would be panned, shamed, literally, her career ruined in the magazines with nasty articles being put out about her. There were so many untrue articles put out because some hero went and said, “Acha, uske bare me aab aisa likh do…” and it would be the last word. And if there would be an apology, that would be on the last line of some other issues of the magazine, it would be written ‘the story carried earlier ultimately proved not to be true’. And who will read that then? At that time the screaming headlines already made the news, right?”
Speaking about the trend in the bygone magazine, Raveena mentioned that surprisingly women were the ‘worst’ enemies of other women because they too belonged to the tribe who body-shamed, slut-shamed to demean them.
Raveena will be seen in Ghudchadi with Sanjay Dutt, Arbaaz Khan’s Patna Shukla with Satish Kaushik. She will be also featured in the hit Netflix original series, Aranyak.
