“I had gained 15 kgs for Pataakha, and I was losing that weight through Shiddat and Angrezi Medium. Actor Katrina Kaif recently faced criticism for her postpartum weight gain, and actor Radhikka Madan expresses solidarity with her. She insists that being a woman in itself brings barrage of judgement on looks, and she herself has been a victim of body-shaming . Heroine kaise banegi ye’. I kept losing weight and shooting back-to-back, and fully became like bones. It started affecting my health, so I took a break,” she shares.
I was told that I was ‘too fat.
But it was realising what actually mattered that changed her perspective. I asked myself why am I trying to please people when they will never be happy? So, I started focusing on feeling healthy rather than chasing a particular body size. Once you do that, others’ opinions don’t affect you as you become wiser. You don’t know what insecurity they [critiques] are coming from. But I have that security of knowing that now, I am chasing health. And if you aren’t fitting in that, you are going wrong. That conditioning comes from childhood as you see such women only on magazine covers. So, if I am sitting in a classroom with a unibrow and some facial hair, I will never feel enough as I am not that ideal woman. The actor admits the journey to acceptance is long, chaotic and confusing.
Because we have this manicured idea and this burden, especially on girls, about how to look and what’s a perfect size, “Us time pe aisa hota nahi hai.
We have to realise that the idea of a perfect woman is fed to us,” she says. “But be on this journey of finding yourself, your ground, and start by accepting yourself because you are like a snowflake,” she ends.
The actor adds, “Earlier, I was too fat, now I was too thin, and in between, I was neither here nor there. especially young girls who depend on social media validation in today’s age, Radhikka Madanadmits it’s easier said than done While she acknowledges that trolls would continue their criticism and one should ignore that.
