Sonakshi Sinha is one actress who has spoken about body positivity time and again and has taken the criticism in good stride. Her response to whatever remarks that have come her way over the years has always been graceful.
In a recent interview, Sonakshi spoke of how she was always an overweight child and had kids bully her in school because of that. She said, “You know, I was always an overweight child. I used to be 95 kilos in school. People bullied me, and the boys called me names. I never took the bullying to heart. And I didn’t let it bring me down because I’ve always known there’s much more to me than my weight or my size.”
She also revisits the time she was very proud of having lost 30kgs before her debut film Dabangg but despite that her weight was what people talked about after the film. She added, “It was a huge achievement for me. And I was so proud of myself. But people were still talking about how much I weighed and how I looked! Eventually, I told myself that I wouldn’t let them bring me down because they had no idea what I had been through, how hard I had worked to get here. And, in the end, it really didn’t matter what they thought. They were not the ones in a big-ticket Bollywood film, I was!”
Filmfare
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