'I Believed That Dark Skin Was Not Pretty', Priyanka Chopra Regrets Endorsing Fairness Creams
In her new profile, Priyanka shared few pictures of her where she spoke about how normal in India is to endorse fairness as being fair is beautiful, ¡°(Skin lightening) was so normalized in South Asia; it¡¯s such a large industry that everyone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check [mark] when you are a female actor, but it¡¯s awful. And it was awful for me, for a little girl who used to put talcum-powder cream on my face because I believe...Read More
Priyanka Chopra who has made it this big has also seen her share of ups and downs in life. She has received a lot of backlash due to her brown skin.
Priyanka admits she
has 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 spoke about how it's normal in India is to endorse fairness as beautiful,
In an interview with a news portal she said,
¡°(Skin lightening) was so normalized in South Asia; it¡¯s such a large industry that everyone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check [mark] when you are a female actor, but it¡¯s awful. And it was awful for me, for a little girl who used to put talcum-powder cream on my face because I believed that dark skin was not pretty¡±.
Priyanka Chopra / Twitter
The actress even regretted doing fairness ads and reveals how she stopped. 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 dusky because 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 complexion changed.¡±
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Priyanka Chopra has indeed come long way and her journey is every bit inspiring.
