Priyanka Chopra who has made it this big has also seen her share of ups and downs inlife. She has received a lot of backlash due to her brown skin.?
Priyanka admits shehas faced hostility and spoke about her experience of doing fairness ads despite not consenting to it whole-heartedly.
Priyanka shared few pictures of herself where she spokeabout how it's normal in India is to endorse fairness as beautiful,?
In an interview with a news portal she said,
¡°(Skinlightening) was so normalized in South Asia; it¡¯s such a large industry thateveryone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check [mark] when you are afemale actor, but it¡¯s awful. And it was awful for me, for a little girl whoused to put talcum-powder cream on my face because I believed that dark skinwas not pretty¡±.
The actress even regretted doing fairness ads and reveals how shestopped. In her interview with Barkha Dutt in 2015, she admitted,?
¡°I felt really bad about it, that¡¯s why I stopped doing it,¡± she said.¡°All my cousins are gora-chitta (fair) I was the one who turned out duskybecause my dad is dusky. Just for fun, my Punjabi family would call me ¡®kaali,kaali, kaali¡¯. At 13, I wanted to put fairness creams and wanted my complexionchanged.¡±
Priyanka Chopra has indeed come long way and her journey is everybit inspiring.