“Slowly we seem to be picking up this, I would say ‘disease’ from the

“Slowly we seem to be picking up this, I would say ‘disease’ from the West about body image that is thrust upon you if you are a woman entertainer or an artist in particular. You are expected to dress up to invoke a sexual desire, to seduce the male. And you are expected to fit the dimensions that somebody else has set in terms of standards of beauty and perfection. I don’t wear the heels, I don’t starve myself, I don’t seem to have the standard dimensions that are expected out of me. I love dressing up. I like looking pretty, I don’t want to go around with armpit hair hanging out. But even until about a decade ago in India, women in entertainment who went on stage did not have so much pressure. We had our own ideas about what is beautiful. It included a lot of curves and a big fat bum, and it was all OK. But now we want to fit into this generic idea of what looks beautiful.” -- source link

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