Priyanka Chopra Recounts Bollywood's 'Unrealistic Standards Of Beauty' Messed Up Her Mind At 17
Priyanka Chopra talks about how Bollywood ruined the definition of beauty and made her underconfident about her own changing body.
Priyanka Chopra ventured into the world of glitz and glamour at the age of 17. She won the Miss India beauty pageant and then the Miss World beauty pageant. Soon, she made her debut in the world of acting with Tamil film Thamizhan (2002) and was then seen in Bollywood in The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003).
At this young age, Priyanka Chopra says, Bollywood messed up her mind with unrealistic standards of beauty. So much so, that she was being criticised for her own changing body.
"Obviously, being raised in the industry and having such a tight lens on what my shape was, what my figure was or what my measurements were, minutely looking at every part of me, I kind of grew up for a while in my 20s, thinking that was normal.
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"Like most young people, where you think about these unrealistic standards of beauty, which is like, absolutely Photoshopped face, perfect hair. I never used my natural texture for years. I used to always just have blown out hair," she said on Victoria¡¯s Secret¡¯s VS Voices podcast.
After her father's death, Priyanka Chopra found solace in food and she was put under the scanner even then.
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When she crossed 30, people on social media would tell her she was looking different as she was ageing.
"It messed with my mind at that time. My mind was already in such a dark place and I didn¡¯t have time for it. My relationship with social media changed, my relationship with the internet changed. I incubated myself in a way where I protected myself, I went into my Cancerian self-preservation self and got back into my shell."
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Revealing how she dealt with it, 39-year-old Priyanka Chopra said that she gave her body what it needed, even if it meant a pizza at 1 am.
She eventually started feeling the urge to go healthier and not just exercise to maintain the "beauty standards". Priyanka has now turned vegetarian and she feels that has cast a big positive impact on her life.
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Priyanka Chopra is an inspiration for all of us, isn't she?
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