Sonali revealed that she was subjected to body shaming by numerous producers who pressured her to gain weight to fit into the beauty standards prevalent in the 90s.”When I came into the industry, heroines didn’t used to be this skinny. Every producer was trying to fatten me up all the time,” Sonali told Hauterrfly.
She recalled how producers would bluntly comment, “eat eat eat, bahut patli hai” (she is too thin), pointing out the pressure to have a curvier body type. “They wanted curves. At that time, they wanted women who were curvaceous and voluptuous and who had curls in their hair. And I was straight black hair and I was skinny,” she added.
Sonali Bendre: ‘When I see lines on my face, of course I get insecure, but I also think that I have earned these. I don’t want to play a 20-year-old!’
Despite the industry’s expectations, Sonali Sonali stressed the importance of feeling confident and beautiful in one’s body, regardless of society’s standards for what is considered attractive. “People might have set a norm of what is good-looking and what isn’t, but you have to feel confident and feel beautiful in your body,” she stated.
On the work front, Sonali will be soon seen in the season two of the newsroom drama The Broken News. The show also stars Jaideep Ahlawat, and Shriya Pilgaonkar. Directed by Vinay Waikul, it will start streaming on May 3. A couple of days ago, Sonali celebrated 25 years of her action thriller film Sarfarosh, starring Aamir Khan in the lead, by sharing a nostalgic video from the movie.
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